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CityCamp NYC 2026 Recap: A Day in the Civic Sandbox
On September 19, 235 people came to Hunter College with no set agenda and built one together: 40 sessions on everything from AI accountability to the ants in the city’s smallest parks.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – September 24, 2026
Hello friends, What a Saturday! 235 of you packed into Hunter College for CityCamp NYC 2026, pitched sessions, filled The Board, and made the day what it was. An unconference has no agenda until the people in the room write…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – September 17, 2026
CityCamp is Saturday, and the Council just cleared its calendar for AI.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – September 11, 2026
Frozen crash data, 170,000 pages on 9/11 air, the 911 hearing, and eight days to CityCamp.
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Hearing Overview – Seven hours, 113 callers, and no public log: what the Council learned about the August 2026 911 outage
On September 9, four Council committees spent three hours on the August 18 911 outage. Here is what we learned, and the one thing we are asking the city to do: publish 911 outages as open data.
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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…
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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…
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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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