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Bytemarks Café: Digital Literacy on Moloka?i

Published March 10, 2021 at 4:03 PM HST

Today on Bytemarks Cafe, we'll talk to the team on Molokai that connects students with kupuna to teach digital literacy. We?ll learn how the Health Occupations Student Association also gets students to learn about telehealth and potential careers in health care.

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Burt Lum

Burt Lum is the Strategy Officer for the Hawaii Broadband Initiative at the State of Hawaii, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Before that he was the Executive Director of Hawaii Open Data, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the principles of open data and has more than 30 years in Hawaii's technology and communications sector.

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