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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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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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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 C discretionary awards (FY2009 to FY2027) into structured, queryable data.
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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 civic joy that only seems to show up when the tournament lines up with our time zone.
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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 for a second round as a community-led UNconference where New Yorkers pitch the session topics and lead the day together.
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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 sports bar — and the room delivered.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 18, 2026
I am deeply grateful for my years at Beta, for the people who shaped me, challenged me, trusted me, and taught me what it means to build civic infrastructure with care.
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What I Learned from BetaNYC
At BetaNYC, I served as Chief of Staff, helping build the systems, programs, partnerships, and million tiny things that keep the work moving.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 12, 2026
Yesterday, BetaNYC testified before the Commission on Government Efficiency. Our argument: the city should own its digital infrastructure — its laws, its data, its services — the same way it owns its water infrastructure.
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Testimony to the Commission on Government Efficiency, COGE, a Charter Revision Commission
Written testimony for Modernizing Government and Streamlining Government Technology.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – June 5, 2026
We launched BetaBuilders, our new community membership program. Also, come celebrate with us at BetaBuilders: Pride Tech Night on Tuesday, June 23!
