Damned if you seek money, damned if you don’t

Tom Steinberg wrote yesterday that he’s observed shame for civic tech projects that don’t make good business:

I think that the widely shared desire to create a strong market of healthy…

Improving UK voter registration

Voter registration is a problem in the UK.

If we opened up aggregated data and registration APIs then we could build a network of services to help get people registered. As a result we would get more people registered and, hopefully, more people…

Can Civic Tech Prevent More Oregon Standoffs?

We’re living in a world of governing crises, where the reputation of democracy is at stake. It’s time for all us civic technologists to innovate and build a modern, resilient system of self governance.

Interview with executive director of betaNYC, Noel Hidalgo on civic technology and NYC

I’ve been spending some time in NYC recently and thought it worthwhile to check in with some civic technology friends and ex-colleagues. Noel was kindly open to an interview on the…