Civic Tech Practitioners
Far from comprehensive, but some of the people doing the work on the ground! Heavily inflected toward US & my own network, feel free to suggest additions! Now with one key online institution too :)
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@cydharrell.bsky.social
@kigongo.bsky.social
A New Yorker in LA. Skateboarding. (Casual) football. Fitchecks. 18F-In-Exile. #CivicTech. This is a personal account. R/T’s ≠ endorsements
@civictechguide.bsky.social
Your place to find and be found https://civictech.guide/
@rdietkus.bsky.social
care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
@edmullen.bsky.social
Designer and strategist mostly working in civic tech. Currently Nava PBC, previously 18F, HC.gov... www.edmullen.com
@ryanpowers.bsky.social
Climber. Trail Runner. Weekend side project enthusiast. Building 👉 bskystats.me Views my own.
@brendanbabb.bsky.social
Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
@johnfitzg.bsky.social
digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
@tylergindraux.bsky.social
I'm a researcher and designer of public services. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
@kdyz.bsky.social
Helping public servants thrive at U.S. Digital Response | #PublicSectorJobBoard
@kristallakis.bsky.social
Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. 💗
@jgee.bsky.social
You can save the world, but first, lunch! He/him. Making great digital products. Former digital services at MTA, City of Boston. Politics before that. Mass Oyster Project. Write about food and tech.
@vykster.bsky.social
Founder, Partner at Compiler. Crash on my couch, borrow my bike. Civic tech. Transit tech. Los Angeles, CA.
@another.rodeo
Endorsed for banter and dolphin facts. Has worn many hats. Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say, and never assume anything I say here is correct.
@sarasti.bsky.social
Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government. Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
@thebestsophist.bsky.social
Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
@jessimurray.bsky.social
I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account MA > WA > MA again
@jorgevalens.com
Government Geek 🤓 | Avid Indoorsman | Innovation Manager, Miami-Dade County IT 🌴☀️ | All about product management, policy development, and gov innovation. | Opinions = Mine (and can be discussed over brunch).
@marinanitze.bsky.social
Co-author, Hack Your Bureaucracy & Crisis Engineering. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
@apetersen.bsky.social
Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State. People first. Pronouns: they/them. Not for you. Views mine. South side Chicagoan.
@whitneyq.bsky.social
Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
@michellethong.bsky.social
Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England.
@jodify.bsky.social
@derekeder.com
Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner @ DataMade, President Emeritus @ Chi Hack Night. Democratizing power through technology. he/him
@albertico.bsky.social
Civic technologist transforming US healthcare. Ruby enthusiast. Personal account.
@mheadd.bsky.social
I post about #GovernmentTech #CivicTech #ServiceDelivery #OpenData. Personal account, views expressed are all mine.
@mattbernius.bsky.social
Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more. He/they.
@charwo.bsky.social
Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
@fureigh.bsky.social
Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more). Make stuff that makes a difference.
@catherinebracy.com
Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
@joshdata.me
Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
@msknee.bsky.social
Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
@atogle.com
Just trying to leave this place better than I found it. Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
@angelquicksey.bsky.social
👾 Currently: Urban planner for the internet at New_ Public ⚡ Always: Civic designer and UX researcher
@arielmai.bsky.social
Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech. 📍NYC, and often DC
@spikeone.bsky.social
Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account. Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband. By day, team building & #civictech By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop. Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com
@whereshj.bsky.social
Design, product, org building for the public interest. Principal Designer, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
@rdpiazza.bsky.social
Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
@mhitchcock.bsky.social
UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good.
@loudowne.bsky.social
Founder of @theschoolofgood Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox Trustee @stonewalluk Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov. Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
@cjforms.bsky.social
Forms and survey specialist. Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys). Effortmark.co.uk
@kateldn.bsky.social
Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
@noneck.org
Be realistic; demand the impossible! Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
@richardpope.org
I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@xianlandia.com
public servant (this is a personal account) can leap tall buildings, given a running start crumlish.me xoxo.zone/@xian soundcloud.com/layersofmeta he/they
@gordonr.ca
VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope.
@allafarce.bsky.social
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
@tiffaniashleybell.com
Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED. Black-Scholes-Merton FTW In LAX or FAY 🏳️🌈
@chriskuang.com
Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine. Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
@emilytav.bsky.social
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist. Teaching + researching at Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. Co-Curator of an oral history of the origin of the US Digital Service // ex: @usds @whitehouse @ashoka
@ronbronson.com
Researching systems, platforms, service design & tech's impact on civic life. Organizing PDX Digital Corps. Past: 18F.gov, UMich lecturer. ronbronson.design HS 🎾 coach // Vetolainen nyt ja aina🇫🇮 consequencedesign.org | futureperfectbook.club
@civicwhitaker.com
Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago Really doesn’t like bullies Signal: civicwhitaker.53
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: https://about.danhon.com i make: https://donotreply.cards work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/ my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallway-track DM or Signal danhon.1701
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) on the board at Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/