CTDC Blogs

National and local perspectives on the journey of building civic tech and data collaboratives

National Partners

• Realizing the Potential of Data, Tech and Local Government Collaboration (Living Cities)
• Three Steps to Leverage Data and Technology to Help Low-Income Residents (Urban Institute)
• The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative: Who We Are
• Tech is Hard, Governing is Harder. Lend a Hand. (Code for America)
• The Power of Ecosystems for Problem-Solving (Living Cities)

Local Partners

Boston

• Meeting Youth Where They’re At: A User-Centered Approach to Boston’s Summer Jobs Program
• Employing Youth: Building a Summer Jobs Program with Young People
• Boston organizations develop advanced algorithm to address city challenges
• Case Study: A Digital Re-design of Boston’s Summer Youth Employment Platform (Data Smart Cities independent case study)

Cleveland

• Powering Social Change with Data and Tech in Northeast Ohio

Pittsburgh

• Pittsburgh’s Data Day: Using Civic Data to Spark Hands-on Community Engagement
• How to Recruit Leaders to Tackle Urban Civic Hacking

St. Louis

• Engaging Hard to Reach Users in Designing Civic Tech
• Court Data in St. Louis County: Sharing Sensitively

San Antonio

• Building a City-Wide Culture of Data in San Antonio

Seattle/King County

• 5 Lessons for Harnessing Data and Tech to Meet Community Needs
• Leveraging Data to Address Community Needs in King County

Washington, D.C.

• User Input in Civic Tech
• ‘Sprint’ for Volunteers: A Software Design Process for Volunteer Civic Tech
• Reducing Time to Hello World
• Can we get ahead of neighborhood change in DC?