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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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This week in NYC #civictech – May 28, 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC #civictech – May 28, 2026If 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
Read the issue →: This week in NYC #civictech – May 22, 2026Today, 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 grievances, got thrown in jail for it, and still won. That fight never ended. It…
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This week in NYC #CivicTech – May 14, 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC #CivicTech – May 14, 2026We’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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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – May 7, 2026 (Week 19)
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – May 7, 2026 (Week 19)If you’ve watched as many YouTube videos on agentic software development as I have, you’ve been told we’re in a new world. So far that new world looks a lot like the old one: same oppression, same inequality, same distrust in democracy. Last Friday I spoke to NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 30, 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 30, 2026We’re getting ready for one of our favorite moments of the year, a celebration of growth, impact, and the future of public interest tech in NYC.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 23, 2026
Read the issue →: This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 23, 2026Three 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…