Civic Innovation Fellows

Building Civic Tech Pathways: Celebrating our 2026 Civic Innovation Fellows

Jun 1, 2026

Gabby Langston

On Friday, May 8, we gathered with community partners, BetaNYC alumni, mentors, and students to graduate our latest Civic Innovation Fellows.

This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 23, 2026

Apr 23, 2026

Noel Hidalgo

Three epic community things this week! First, we named Data Vandals our Public Interest Technologist of the Month for April. Their work exemplifies what it looks like when civic technology refuses to be polite about the systems it’s holding to account — Jen Ray (artist) and Jason Forrest (dataviz expert) are driven by the conviction…

Welcoming BetaNYC’s Fall 2025 Civic Innovation Fellows

Aug 25, 2025

Dimitri Mimy

Meet BetaNYC’s Fall 2025 Civic Innovation Fellows!

Scaling Impact: What’s Next for the Civic Innovation Fellowship and Mapping for Equity

Aug 7, 2025

Jazzy Smith

What’s Going on with the Civic Innovation Fellowship? We’ve been awarded funding from the Siegel Family Endowment and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore how to deepen and scale the Civic Innovation Fellowship. This planning year will focus on understanding how we can grow the program into a workforce development pipeline that better supports…

NYC Open Data Week 2024 Recap

Aug 20, 2024

Gabby Langston

Fostering data literacy. Promoting transparency. Informed community decision and policy-making. Driving innovation. Enhancing civic participation. These are just some reasons we host NYC Open Data Week every year, and 2024 was no different! In March, the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), BetaNYC, and Data Through Design came together…

What’s New at State of the Map US 2024?

Jul 9, 2024

Jazzy Smith

The Fellowship team attended State of the Map US 2024 at Salt Lake City! Learn about the workshops they attended and what trends they noticed within the open-sourced mapping world.

Would you hire a public interest technologist/analyst trained by BetaNYC & CUNY?

Apr 26, 2024

Noel Hidalgo

Would you hire a public interest technologist/analyst trained by BetaNYC & CUNY? If yes, we need your support and fill out this form.

2024 Spring Mapping for Equity Events Re-cap

Apr 23, 2024

Jazzy Smith

Journey back with us to March during 2024 NYC Open Data Week where the Civic Innovation Fellows held a new two-event series around Mapping for Equity.

Welcoming back our 2023-2024 Civic Innovation Fellows!

Feb 29, 2024

Jazzy Smith

Our 2023-2024 Civic Innovation Fellows are back for their final semester. Learn about who they are, what they’re working on, and about our upcoming Mapping for Equity events.