Civic tech has meant many different things over the past decade, including different tools, tactics, and ideas for “fixing” systems. But what does the field of civic tech mean now?
At Civic Tech DC, this question drives our work. As technology rapidly changes how we operate, we’re thinking about what it means to build technology that is not only useful, but grounded in the communities it serves.
In a new guest post for Technical.ly, we look at how Civic Tech DC is approaching this next chapter through prototyping ideas, surfacing problems, and building pathways for people to find their way into the institutions where change happens at scale.
“What we do know is that the impact of this work is not only found in tangible products or prototypes. It can be in the movement of people into institutions, and in how those institutions change once new voices are inside them, shaping decisions from within.”
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