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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!
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Building Civic Tech Pathways: Celebrating our 2026 Civic Innovation Fellows
On Friday, May 8, we gathered with community partners, BetaNYC alumni, mentors, and students to graduate our latest Civic Innovation Fellows.
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This week in NYC #civictech – May 28, 2026
If you’re interested in building NYC’s public interest tech future, we have a space for you. We’re rebooting our community nights as BetaBuilder Nights.
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This week in NYC #civictech – May 22, 2026
Today, we’re launching four new digital democracy tools for AI. New York’s fight for public access to government information goes back to 1649 — when a Dutch lawyer named van der Donck went door to door in New Amsterdam collecting grievances, got thrown in jail for it, and still won. That fight never ended. It…
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This week in NYC #CivicTech – May 14, 2026
We’re launching a new class series at a scale we haven’t attempted before, throwing our doors open because this is the moment for it.
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – May 7, 2026 (Week 19)
If you’ve watched as many YouTube videos on agentic software development as I have, you’ve been told we’re in a new world. So far that new world looks a lot like the old one: same oppression, same inequality, same distrust in democracy. Last Friday I spoke to NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)…
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This week in NYC’s #CivicTech – April 30, 2026
We’re getting ready for one of our favorite moments of the year, a celebration of growth, impact, and the future of public interest tech in NYC.
