In 2016, Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson and Matt Stempeck (then director of civic technology on Microsoft’s Technology and Civic Engagement Team) collaborated to organize a taxonomy of civic tech. Their ...

Baltimore incubator Hutch has picked its fourth and largest cohort yet. Hutch was launched by downtown software company Fearless to support civic tech companies that are working in the area of digital ...

An early Civic Hall presentation for beta members (photo: @VeronicaLudwig) NEW YORK—On Tuesday Andrew Rasiej and his business partner Micah Sifry will open Civic Hall, a 21st century community center ...

If you've ever spent a day on hold with a government agency, you know there has to be a better way. Now, the emerging field of 'civic tech' is trying to find it. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with ...

Code for America, the nonprofit and nonpartisan group at the forefront of civic tech, is preparing for National Day of Civic Hacking 2019, which will take place on Sept. 21. National Day of Civic ...

President Donald Trump’s creation of his promised Department of Government Efficiency within one of the federal government’s most notable civic tech organizations, the U.S. Digital Service, has sent ...

Sheba Najmi remembers the process of things like paying the electric bill or going to the post office in her native Pakistan, and it was tedious and difficult. Her father would send her to stand in ...

Matt Jukes shares what he learned at the recent Code for America Summit, which is one of the must attend events for those working in civic tech. The Code for America Summit is perhaps the biggest ...

Espy Thomson ’21 says she used to think of government as being “all about policy and politicians; pretty detached from the actual experience of most of the public.” But her own recent experience as a ...