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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – September 4, 2026
On September 2, New York City paused student-facing generative AI for nearly 600,000 public school students, 2-K through eighth grade, for one year. Companion chatbots are banned in every grade, K through 12, with no exemption — the widest part of the policy and the least discussed.
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NYC’s DOE AI Ban? Here Is What the Policy Actually Says.
On September 2, New York City paused generative AI for nearly 600,000 public school students. We read the announcement, the press conference transcript, the March guidance that preceded it, and the parent organizing that forced it — then went back through nearly 10 years of our own conversations, because we have been writing about automated…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 27, 2026
Last week, 70 people came out in the rain to our Civic Tech Summer Showcase. Our Fellow New Yorkers took the mic across five lightning talks on tools they built.
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Techno-optimists in one room: a recap of the BetaNYC Civic Tech Summer Showcase
70 New Yorkers gathered on a stormy evening for five lightning talks from the BetaNYC civic tech community.
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CityCamp NYC 2026: GA Tickets Are On Sale, Plus Scholarships Available
GA tickets for CityCamp NYC are now on sale. Scholarship applications are open through September 17, and BetaBuilders sustaining donors save $10.
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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, we want to make sure everyone who’s curious has a chance to ask questions.
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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 an eye out for a full recap soon!
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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 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
This 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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Public Interest Technologist of the Month: Ariel Kennan
Ariel Kennan is the reason BetaNYC is a technology, data, and design community. When we were first coming together, we talked about data and technology and where the two met. Ariel reframed it.
