We’re a community of New Yorkers using civic technology, data, and design to improve ourselves and our neighborhoods.
Here are three ways to plug in:
Our Weekly Newsletter — The Message
A weekly round-up of community updates, upcoming events, featured news, projects and datasets — everything you need to know about NYC’s civic, public interest technology, and service design community.
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Events
- November 3, 2026 · 4:30 pmPublic Interest Tech in Focus at NYU WagnerNYU Wagner Main Event Space
- November 10, 2026 · 9:00 amUrban Tech Summit 2026Cornell Tech Verizon Executive Education Center
- November 12, 2026 · 5:45 pmAutumn Civic Tech ShowcaseNYU Jacobs Academic Building
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Our members community lives in the BetaNYC Discord. It is where questions, project leads, job openings, and civic data finds get shared. There are five ways in, and two of them are free.
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Community Code of Conduct
Equality and community equity are core to building a vibrant civic hacker, civic technology, public interest technology, open data, and service design community. These documents are our community foundation — living documents we review annually with public input from staff.