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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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We are building a better tomorrow today: our impact in 2026, what we made, argued for, and won
Building civic infrastructure is never a thing you ever finish. The City we want to see will always be under construction. Bit by byte, we are at a unique moment in history with the tools, resources, and hope to address…
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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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Call For Volunteers at CityCamp NYC 2026!
BetaNYC is looking for volunteers to support this year’s CityCamp NYC on September 19, a one-day unconference that brings together New York City’s civic tech, data, and design communities.
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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.
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Early Bird Tickets for CityCamp NYC 2026 Are On Sale!
Early bird registration is open for CityCamp NYC 2026, Saturday, September 19 at Hunter College. Tickets are $40 until August 24; volunteer applications are also open.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 16 July 2026
What a week. Ideas that New York’s civic technology community has pushed for years turned into real action.
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Decades in the making: New York City launches its PIT Crew!
New York City has launched the Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew: five in-house teams of product managers, designers, engineers, user researchers, and data experts building digital solutions to public problems. The more than $5 million initiative includes one crew supported…
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