Community

Books

Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal

Get Together

Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto

Design Justice

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Cult of the Dead Cow

Joseph Menn

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Citizens

Jon Alexander, Ariane Conrad

Direct message

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Victor Sauceda

CEO, founder, justice reform advocate, community leader, change agent

Marlena Medford

Marlena Medford

Civic tech evangelizer. Storyteller. Diversity seeker.

Angie Quirarte

Angie Quirarte

Civic techie, bureaucracy hacker, dot connecter

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Reviews

Review: Citizens

Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad share why the key to fixing everything is all of us.

Review: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

A must-read for the entire civic spectrum.

Thoughts

Joyful democracy and the virtuous civic circle

By adopting a simple public engagement framework, we can build a more inspired government, together.

Luke Fretwell

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Pedigree and public interest technology

The community that supports digital government services should be undeniably representative of everyone.

Luke Fretwell

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Why and how I built Agile Government Leadership

AGL, which has since evolved into Technologists for the Public Good, was the testing ground for an experiment in what I now call an open civic community of practice.

Luke Fretwell

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Government open data in 2022

Once thriving, now barely surviving. Ideas on how we can breathe more life into it.

Luke Fretwell

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Civic hacking for '100% .gov'

Re-imagining the government domain name registry experience.

Luke Fretwell

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