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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
Update, October 2026: We rebuilt the budget data described below. We re-read the Council’s FY2018–FY2027 budget PDFs with a checked…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 9 July 2026
NYC’s latest dataset, BetaNYC/New-York-City-Budget, a public GitHub repo where our AI agent scraped and reconciled twenty years of Council Schedule…
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We Turned Two Decades of Council Budget PDFs Into Open Data. Now the City Should Maintain The Data.
Update, October 2026: We rebuilt this data. We re-read the Council’s FY2018–FY2027 budget PDFs with a checked process: every row…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 2 July 2026
Walk any block, enter any subway. You cannot escape the beauty of New York City’s diversity. It’s a kind of…
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Save the Date: CityCamp NYC Returns September 19, 2026
Mark your calendars: CityCamp NYC returns on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Hosted by BetaNYC at Hunter College, CityCamp NYC returns…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech! – 25 June 2026
Last Tuesday, BetaNYC’s Associates Board hosted the first BetaBuilders lightning talk event at Wilka’s — Manhattan’s first and only women’s…