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Community Boards: The Most Local Way to Show Up for New York City
At our latest BetaBagels event, Community Board members from Brooklyn and Queens shared insightful reflections on their experience.
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This week in NYC’s #civictech – 29 Jan 2026
We hope all of you are doing as well as you can. Are you ready to serve your community?
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – January 23, 2026
In a world of breathtaking technological abundance, what truly matters is how we choose to live together.
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Press Release: NYC PIT Pop Up Open House & Relaunch
The NYC PIT Pop Up Open House and Relaunch convened civic leaders, educators, foundations, artists, and community partners around hands-on demos, digital literacy, and civic tech for equity and the public good.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – January 16, 2026
This week in NYC’s #CivicTech Week 3 of 2026 Dr. King on “Public Interest Technology” Thank you CM Gutiérrez! NJ AI + Designing for Care + Crypto Mayor Crashes Tool preview: Privacy focused LLMs Event alert: Fri, Jan 30, PIT,…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – January 9, 2026
Happy New Year! As we step into 2026, we’re excited to welcome a new chapter for New York City.
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Mapping for Equity: 2025 in Review
In 2025, Mapping for Equity had a big year. We hosted fourteen sessions across all five boroughs, with nine hands-on field mapping events in parks and five data entry workshops that turned observations into open, reusable public data.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – December 23, 2025
On Terra (the third rocky planet orbiting Sol), we’ve reached the end of the Gregorian
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – December 12, 2025
Happy almost-end-of-year, friends! We’re also closing out the year with two gatherings next Friday, December 19.
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