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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 12, 2026
Yesterday, BetaNYC testified before the Commission on Government Efficiency. Our argument: the city should own its digital infrastructure — its laws, its data, its services — the same way it owns its water infrastructure.
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Testimony to the Commission on Government Efficiency, COGE, a Charter Revision Commission
Written testimony for Modernizing Government and Streamlining Government Technology.
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Joint Testimony to the NYC Council for Executive Budget Hearing, Public Comment on Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
Joint Testimony to the NYC Council for Executive Budget Hearing, Public Comment Modest $255,000 investment in OpenRecords portal will encourage better NYC FOIL performance, fully implement Local Law 11 of 2025 Thank you for the opportunity to provide written testimony on…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 5, 2026
We launched BetaBuilders, our new community membership program. Also, come celebrate with us at BetaBuilders: Pride Tech Night on Tuesday, June 23!
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Building Civic Tech Pathways: Celebrating our 2026 Civic Innovation Fellows
On Friday, May 8, we gathered with community partners, BetaNYC alumni, mentors, and students to graduate our latest Civic Innovation Fellows.
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This week in NYC #civictech – May 28, 2026
If you’re interested in building NYC’s public interest tech future, we have a space for you. We’re rebooting our community nights as BetaBuilder Nights.
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This week in NYC #civictech – May 22, 2026
Today, we’re launching four new digital democracy tools for AI. New York’s fight for public access to government information goes back to 1649 — when a Dutch lawyer named van der Donck went door to door in New Amsterdam collecting…
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New digital democracy tools for AI — MCPs for the Charter/Laws, Council, the City Record, and Checkbook
New Amsterdam’s Open Government History The argument about who controls what the public knows about its government is not a recent one in New York. It goes back to 1649. That year, Adriaen van der Donck — a Dutch lawyer…
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This week in NYC #CivicTech – May 14, 2026
We’re launching a new class series at a scale we haven’t attempted before, throwing our doors open because this is the moment for it.
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