Newsletter
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 20, 2026
Plus: an otter’s big NYC comeback, a PIT Crew debrief, and CityCamp news.
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CityCamp AMA: Ask Us Anything on August 28
CityCamp NYC 2026 is a few weeks away. Before we all show up at Hunter College on Saturday, September 19,…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 13, 2026
Thank you to everyone who came out to BetaBagels 016! It was a full room for OTI’s PIT Crew. Keep…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 7, 2026
Building civic infrastructure is never something you finish. Halfway through 2026, here’s what we built, argued for, and won.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – July 30, 2026
The future of this city gets built by the people who show up for it. That has been true for…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 23 July 2026
This month we’re spotlighting Ariel Kennan as our Public Interest Technologist of the Month! Her reframing of civic tech around…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 16 July 2026
What a week. Ideas that New York’s civic technology community has pushed for years turned into real action.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 9 July 2026
NYC’s latest dataset, BetaNYC/New-York-City-Budget, a public GitHub repo where our AI agent scraped and reconciled twenty years of Council Schedule…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 2 July 2026
Walk any block, enter any subway. You cannot escape the beauty of New York City’s diversity. It’s a kind of…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 25 June 2026
Last Tuesday, BetaNYC’s Associates Board hosted the first BetaBuilders lightning talk event at Wilka’s — Manhattan’s first and only women’s…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 18, 2026
I am deeply grateful for my years at Beta, for the people who shaped me, challenged me, trusted me, and…
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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…