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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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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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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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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 an eye out for a full recap soon!
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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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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 as long as we have been doing this work, and it is the reason we keep building bridges.
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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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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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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.
