5 Ways Tech Entrepreneurship is Impacting Politics

Reading the news may give you the feeling U.S. politics is in a pretty despairing place — there’s high national and student debt, frequent bipartisan gridlock, and steady unemployment. But there’s also hope for increasing civic engagement — and it’s being fueled by tech entrepreneurship.

Internet access is increasing steadily across the world, and in the U.S., more and more adults are turning to mobile technologies to read the news, share opinions, visit government websites, and engage in civic debate. In fact, more than half of Americans — 56 percent — now own a smartphone, and those numbers are only expected to rise exponentially. As Web access and mobile device ownership increases, so too does our access to politicians and engagement in civic issues.

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