Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami

For all its diversity, the Miami region remained deeply segregated, with significant income disparities and a disconnect between the tech startup world and poor communities. In 2012, soon after Miami Program Director Matt Haggman conceived of the Knight Foundation's effort to boost Miami's entrepreneurial ecosystem, CEO Alberto Ibarg en discussed with him that there was another Miami out there that the proposed initiative should be touching. In some communities, gentrification was driving residents out, while other communities were simply left out.