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Udacity: Broadening Access to Education
Hi, Udacians -- my name is Gundega, and as you can see from my business card, I do a little bit of everything here at Udacity. You can read about my background in an earlier blog post about me, but today I want to tell you about some of the projects I’m working on and why they are important. I joined the team to contribute full time to improving education, and I’m incredibly happy to be here because broadening access to high quality education is very close to my heart. I grew up in Latvia when it was still part of Soviet Union, and my parents weren't well situated, so I did not have a lot of things considered "normal" today in "first world" countries. Maybe that is why I find it easy to relate to people who are in a similar situation now. With Internet-connected devices being part of our everyday lives, it is easy to forget that computers, Internet and even electricity can still be scarce in some places in the world. In addition to internet access, language access is in…