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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,…
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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,…
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Advocacy · AI for Democracy · Algorithms · Blog · Education · Legislation · NYC CS for All · ResearchNYC’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…
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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…
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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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CityCamp NYC 2026: GA Tickets Are On Sale, Plus Scholarships Available
GA tickets for CityCamp NYC are now on sale. Scholarship applications are open through September 17, and BetaBuilders sustaining donors…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 20, 2026
Plus: an otter’s big NYC comeback, a PIT Crew debrief, and CityCamp news.
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#BetaBagels 016: Meet the PIT Crew, NYC OTI’s New In-House Product Team
For more than a decade, BetaNYC and the civic tech community have argued New York should build its own digital…
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CityCamp AMA: Ask Us Anything on August 28
CityCamp NYC 2026 is a few weeks away. Before we all show up at Hunter College on Saturday, September 19,…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – August 13, 2026
Thank you to everyone who came out to BetaBagels 016! It was a full room for OTI’s PIT Crew. Keep…
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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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Advocacy · AI for Democracy · Blog · Civic Innovation Fellows · Report Back · Testimony · Win · Year in reviewWe 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…