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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – October 22, 2026
Early voting starts this weekend, BetaBagels tackles civic AI, and new city data jobs!
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Train the trainers: how AI education reaches New York’s neighborhoods
The New York City Council’s AI Community Engagement initiative puts AI education in the hands of community organizations. On October 8, we trained 34 of their staff to teach it. Here is why, and what we covered.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – October 15, 2026
SpaceXAI faces the Council, a workshop with Data Pride NYC, BetaBagels is back, and more!
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – October 9, 2026
BetaNYC at the Council’s AI hearing, a maps and mobility mixer, new jobs, and more!
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Digital, Data, and AI Literacy for All: Thank You Council Members for Your Support!
As fiscal year 2027 gets underway, we want to thank the Council Members who are building it with us.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – October 1, 2026
CityCamp recap, Open Data Week 2027 proposals open, Noel to testify on AI, and more!
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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 one, and you all wrote a good one. Thank you for showing up and building…
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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 of the policy and the least discussed.
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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 through nearly 10 years of our own conversations, because we have been writing about automated…
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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.
