Civic technology is the use of technology for the public good. Think: an app that pairs with local counties to provide quick, easy access to food stamps; a new program that makes signing up for public benefits online easier than ever; an app that allows you to clear your prison record. In this session, Elle Gover gives a brief introduction to what civic technology is, why it matters to Detroit Labs, and showcase some other local and nationwide organizations doing this work.
Participants will walk away empowered with the interest and tools needed to have a real impact in their local communities. Want to see more talks from LabsCon ? Check out our YouTube Playlist. My name is Elle. So I went through the iOS apprenticeship last year, graduated from it and started at Detroit Labs in the winter.
And at some point, I made the transition to web development, which is semi-relevant to this. But, yeah so I know you have no other talks to be at, but thanks for being at this one.
Thanks, thank you. So as the byline reads here, this is an exploratory introduction to the field of civic technology and community tech. All right, so first the agenda, so we have intros which is where we are right now. How the field of civic tech came to be. The ecosystem, so things like community action tech and open government. And then what all of this means to you and to us. First, oops, first I wanted to run through some constraints and disclaimers.
So this talk focuses largely on US based projects and most of them that I will talk about are mostly Detroit local projects. This is an overview. So now why do I care about this?
