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Civic Innovation Fellows: Summer 2020
What is the Civic Innovation Fellowship? The Civic Innovation Fellowship is a unique program where CUNY Service Corps fellows learn about NYC government, local communities, and how data and technology can help strengthen civic life. Our summer program consists of a 5 week condensed bootcamp over the course of which fellows develop their own data-rich…
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Reflecting on Five years of Fellowship
What is BetaNYC’s Civic Innovation Fellowship? The Civic Innovation Fellowship (CIF) is BetaNYC’s immersive civic tech training program where an annual cohort of qualified fellows work on data, technology and design challenges inside New York City government. BetaNYC has been running CIF in partnership with the CUNY Service Corps and Office of the Manhattan Borough…
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Consider RADAR.
Hello fellow citizens. Data and data communication can help address persistent inequities and prejudices. Data can help you locate a need, back up an argument, initiate dialogue and convene conversations, tailor a policy, or shock the world by confirming inequities to drive change. They are also crucial to make meaningful, sometimes life and death, choices…
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Job Opening – Teaching and Lab Assistant
Job Title: Civic Innovation Teaching and Lab Assistant Location: David N Dinkins Municipal Building, Civic Center, Manhattan. Salary: Salaried, Full-time $17.00 / hour Summary: CIL’s Teaching and Lab Assistant will assist BetaNYC in the teaching and management of the Civic Innovation Fellowship (CIF) program, along with other lab responsibilities as available. CIF is an undergraduate fellowship…
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Introducing Year 5 Civic Innovation Fellows 2018 – 2019
Introduction to the Civic Innovation Fellows Program The Civic Innovation Fellowship is the first and only comprehensive program dedicated to improving community boards’ use of data and technology while training the next generation of civic leaders from CUNY. Manhattan Borough President Gale A Brewer founded the program in 2014, and BetaNYC has run it since…
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Community Board Technology Needs Report – 2018
Note — This report is one of two reports we are releasing this Fall, and a follow up to our 2015 report. Please read our executive summaries of both reports; you can download a PDF copy of this report here – Community Board Technology Needs Report 2018 – Final Version (pdf). You can download our…
