Civic Tech Starter Pack
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@luigi.land
@artfulaction.bsky.social
👸🏾 Data, design, strategy. ✍🏾 Science & data journo as one of my past lives. 🎙️ Purveyor of 🎵 & emotions. 💓 Science, art, the public.
@ernieatlyd.bsky.social
@anotherpatrick.bsky.social
@codeforboston.bsky.social
Civic tech volunteer group serving Greater Boston since 2012. Connect with us at www.codeforboston.org
@scottcities1st.bsky.social
Founder & CEO @The #CitiesFirst Advisors + Podcast🎙| Author @"#CitiesFirst: Urbanism & Mobility in the Post-COVID City" | Board @Green Mobility Magazine & Intermobility | Advisor @Urban AI | Top Urban Planning Voice 📢
@digitalbenefits.bsky.social
The Digital Benefits Network supports government in delivering public benefits services and technology that are accessible, effective, and equitable in order to ultimately increase economic opportunity. Part of the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
@civictechto.bsky.social
civictech.ca We are a community of tech-minded folk making civic life better in Toronto. Come and join our weekly online and in-person events with speakers, discussions and project breakouts! Upcoming events: https://guild.host/civic-tech-toronto
@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
@mateooo.bsky.social
Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. DEN | ATX | SATX | NM. Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 natural building + earthen architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más. Supporter of #AustinFC 💚, #NewMexicoUnited, #Liverpool, and #Flamengo
@thadk.bsky.social
@fureigh.bsky.social
Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more). Make stuff that makes a difference.
@elizayer.bsky.social
Tacoma, WA, USA Civil servant, independent product and organizational consultant Powered by problematic levels of curiosity Primary lens on life: we’re in this together #ProductLeadership #Leadership #SystemsThinking #TeamTopologies
@beta.nyc
We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech beta.nyc/links
@civictechguide.bsky.social
Your place to find and be found https://civictech.guide/
@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
@msknee.bsky.social
Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
@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
@lanebecker.bsky.social
Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @ Wikimedia/Wikipedia. Previously @ IFTF, 18F, Code for America.
@jameshupp.bsky.social
I hear everyone that you know is more relevant than everyone that I know.
@rdpiazza.bsky.social
Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
@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.
@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
@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
@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.
@vykster.bsky.social
Founder, Partner at Compiler. Crash on my couch, borrow my bike. Civic tech. Transit tech. Los Angeles, CA.
@michellethong.bsky.social
Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England.
@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.
@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
@jennajordan.me
Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart. Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums. Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling https://jennajordan.me
@jpmarindiaz.bsky.social
#smalldata #rstats #dataviz #ai #policy #duckdb Founder @datasketch.bsky.social
@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/
@eckhouse.bsky.social
Recovering academic, current data scientist. Current enthusiasms: e bikes, botanical printing, backpacking, talking to insurance companies on the phone.
@werkstatte.bsky.social
In short, life goes on, and life is known to be very difficult and very complicated, and as we say in Vienna, many roads lead to the Central Cemetery.
@americalabs.org
Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet. Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
incoming asst prof of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data science @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder | runner https://jaeyk.github.io
@mheadd.bsky.social
I post about #GovernmentTech #CivicTech #ServiceDelivery #OpenData. Personal account, views expressed are all mine.
@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.
@joshdata.me
Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
@civictechallies.bsky.social
A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation! 🌐 civictechnologists.org
@ryanakoch.com
Host of Civic Tech Chat https://civictech.chat Nerdy for all things tech, political science, and public policy
@giannella.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Gov Lab & Massive Data Institute: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
@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.
@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
@wslack.bsky.social
Decatur GA native, prev USDS/18F & hospital tech around the US. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🆇: @wslack 🐘: [email protected]
@aaronsnow.net
Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown University Beeck Center, VoProPartners. Believelander in DC. The dadjokes don't stop just because they've grown and gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
@thebestsophist.bsky.social
Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
@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
@allafarce.bsky.social
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
@almsnatalie.bsky.social
journalist who covers how the government's tech affects you🫵 NC native, DC resident. Tips = [email protected] and Signal at nalms.41 https://www.nextgov.com/voices/natalie-alms/18881/?oref=ng-post-author?oref=rf-post-author
@centeronbudget.bsky.social
A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
@emilytav.bsky.social
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist. Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service // ex: @usds @whitehouse @ashoka
@hunterowens.net
los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.
@jacobharr.is
Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
@pahlkadot.bsky.social
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
@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
@djpatil.bsky.social
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist GP Great Point Ventures Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn I build things
@pamherd.bsky.social
Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
@waldo.net
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
@ethanmarcotte.com
designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/ hi friend
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
@digiphile.bsky.social
Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@luigi.land
Keep the civic in civic tech. Launch a public option for everything. Abolish the lottery.