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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech
Each week we round up what’s new in NYC civic tech, open data, and public interest technology — what’s shipping, what to show up for, and where the work needs your attention.
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Recent issues have covered new city datasets, job opportunities at mission-aligned organizations, community events, and policy developments shaping how New York uses data. Browse recent issues below to get a sense of what we cover — and subscribe to get it in your inbox every Thursday morning.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – July 30, 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – July 30, 2026The future of this city gets built by the people who show up for it. That has been true for as long as we have been doing this work, and it is the reason we keep building bridges.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 23 July 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 23 July 2026This month we’re spotlighting Ariel Kennan as our Public Interest Technologist of the Month! Her reframing of civic tech around the design of systems, not just the data inside them, shaped how we think about this work.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 16 July 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 16 July 2026What 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
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 9 July 2026NYC’s latest dataset, BetaNYC/New-York-City-Budget, a public GitHub repo where our AI agent scraped and reconciled twenty years of Council Schedule C discretionary awards (FY2009 to FY2027) into structured, queryable data.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 2 July 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 2 July 2026Walk any block, enter any subway. You cannot escape the beauty of New York City’s diversity. It’s a kind of civic joy that only seems to show up when the tournament lines up with our time zone.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 25 June 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 25 June 2026Last Tuesday, BetaNYC’s Associates Board hosted the first BetaBuilders lightning talk event at Wilka’s — Manhattan’s first and only women’s sports bar — and the room delivered.