Today, the Civic Tech Field Guide has become the most comprehensive collection of tech projects for the public interest and democracy, providing not only a directory of such projects but also a calendar of global conferences and events and access to regularly conducted research.
But what exactly is “civic tech?” According to Stempeck, civic tech is an umbrella term that includes gov tech but also expands beyond the government to include everything from public policy to political campaigns to nonprofits to urban planning. It is intentionally defined broadly as “the use of newly available possibilities for the common good.”
On this episode of ICYMI, Stempeck discusses the genesis of the Civic Tech Field Guide, its underlying principles, the importance of having a global perspective of civic tech and the need for a “postmortem” culture to learn from projects that have failed.
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- Add your projects to the Civic Tech Field Guide
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