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Speaker 1: Everybody needs to use technology.

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Speaker 2: Maria McCauley is the Director of Libraries in Cambridge.

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Speaker 1: Whether that is to apply for any kind of job

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Speaker 1: or to apply for services.

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Speaker 2: That's why the library is launching a new program called

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Speaker 2: Tech for All. Anyone who's over eighteen and who has

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Speaker 2: a Cambridge Library Card can apply to get a refurbished

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Speaker 2: laptop and a Wi Fi hotspot. But it doesn't end there.

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Speaker 2: The library will even teach you how to use the devices.

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Speaker 2: Gina Josette Rivera is the Digital Equity Manager at the

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Speaker 2: Cambridge Public Library. She says it's a people centered solution

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Speaker 2: to a technological problem.

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Speaker 3: So we're able to sit down, We're able to call people.

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Speaker 3: We're able to sit with them and do this meet

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Speaker 3: your device to make sure that they actually know how

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Speaker 3: to work these devices.

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Speaker 2: Applications closed March twenty second. Supply is limited, but the

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Speaker 2: goal is to do another round of applications in the

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