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Looking forward to a year of growing momentum and continual change
As a new year opens up before us, the CivicMakers team is deeply grateful for all the plusses and deltas…
Author: Lawrence Grodeska
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The Culture Stack — Cultivating a More Resilient & Responsive Government
The govtech movement holds great promise, but is hindered by a glaring blindspot — the assumption that technology alone will…
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Trusting the process, and the people — Designing the Parks and Tech Challenge
Oftentimes, when deep into the design of a group process, I hit a point where the possibility of failure seems…
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What is CivicMakers?
People still ask us “What is CivicMakers?” In many ways, we’re still asking that same question, but after the whirlwind…
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Personal Democracy Forum 2016: Movements, Voices and Values
Last week I found myself back in New York City for another Personal Democracy Forum. This was my second in person,…
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#CivicTech Primer: Uncharted territory
In my last post, I shared some thoughts about “civic tech,” a new(ish) sector focused expressly on the public good. This definition…
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Cities and Startups Building Solutions and Community, Together
Last Thursday was spectacular. To say that CivicMakers facilitated a training and hosted a happy hour is missing the point.…
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#CivicTech Primer: What is “civic tech”?
Here in the Second Great Internet Bubble, we’ve come to accept Marc Andreessen’s maxim that “software is eating the world.”…
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