One nice thing about being a worker-owned, democratic organization rather than a hierarchical non-profit is we don't have to worry mass layoffs in response to union organizing.
I was recently a guest on the #podcast Between the brackets and now the episode has been released! Almost one full hour of me babbling about the things I love. #wikidata#publiccode#civictech#SDG
Halbzeit für die Ampel: Danke für die schönen Worte, lasst endlich Taten sprechen!
Zusammen mit weiteren zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen und der Freie-Software-Wirtschaft fordern wir die Bundesregierung auf, eine nachhaltige und soziale #digitalpolitik umzusetzen.
Even #ChatGPT forgets that #civictech exists. Ask it to write a script to fetch the list of books by William Gibson via API. It will first reply "use google books" which requires an API token.
But you can query US Library of Congress and get the results without token.
#govtech#civictech Anyone know if clearme.com (used by LinkedIn) and id.me are somehow the same? The UI is similar. The LinkedIn one seemed to work (took my photo & photo of my driver's license and decided I was me), but IRS's version is just frustration. Anyone who got thru IRSs has to be an imposter because I don't know anyone with that much patience.
Cool job: the NAACP is hiring a Digital Justice Fellow to “critically examine and address the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data in the creation, maintenance, and furthering of racial inequality.”
Every time I talk to someone about the expungement petition generator app I work on with #codeforphilly, they tell me about a personal or family member’s experience with the justice system.
Having charges on your record is paralyzing and especially frustrating when it’s charges that we’re not convictions and often never prosecuted, but still show up on a background check.
Interesting NYC event with the GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan; Executive Director of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program, Rebeca Lamadrid; and Login.gov Director, Dan Lopez; moderated by Director of Experience Design for the Office of Regulatory and Oversight Systems, Cordelia Yu.
Definitely go if you want to learn more about technology in government
List of interesting #civictech jobs including ux designer for postal reform, director of data services at the department of labor, chief data officer for the city of Honolulu etc
The Library of Congress is sponsoring a challenge to help improve public knowledge of civics by asking video game developers to create fun, lightweight video games related to civics that incorporate Library of Congress resources. #CivicTech#GameDesign#GameDev#civics
Hey y'all! This is a tech job thread! I know this is a tough market, and I want to create visibility for people so that they can get help finding jobs. If you're hiring, let me know!
ESPECIALLY for
Entry level (especially for people with no prior work experience)
Underrepresented folks
Nontraditional backgrounds
Companies with an ethical mission
Please boost! It means a lot :blobfoxheartcute: ❤️
@hazelweakly Nava PBC is often hiring for Engineers, Designers, and all the PMs (Project, Product, & Program)
I know we're also looking for specialists in #government contract capture
🙋🏼♂️hive mind: Are there time budget trackers out there?
I.e., I want to spend x hours reading, y hours on project a, z hours on supervision this week. Every day, I task switch according to energy, but track whether I overshoot my hour budget for a given task type or project, in which case I stop and switch again.
@codingconduct An additional use case for which this would be great would be tracking remote volunteer activity time. Mostly, you don’t need or want the hassle of a full-fledged time clock. You want to be able to track start and end times for random “answered an email, 7 minutes” “made some slides, 19 minutes” “phone call, 8 minutes”. #volunteer#civictech
At last, I am on mastodon.publicinterest.town -- which means another #introduction round
Hi, I'm Christopher - A bureaucracy hacker and civic tech organizer. I'm currently serving as a product manager at the United States Digital Service (usds.gov) and am one of the co-founders of the Alliance of Civic Technologists (https://www.civictechnologists.org/)
I teach #civictech and data storytelling at Columbia College Chicago.
I have a Masters of Public Admin from DePaul and served in the Army
At this point in my career, I’ve spent more time in public service than as a founder of an early stage startup (what I did in my past life). Most folks here in the US mostly know me for my work in government; folks back in Asia know me more for my startup work.
For the last 4 years I have been San Francisco’s director of product management, including through early pandemic wild times. I have a lot to share about this work but am unsure where to start. So ask me anything!
I get around by bicycle mostly and love to #biketour and #mtb. I love playing in my #urbangarden in both our backyard and containers on the porch. I try to live as much like a #solarpunk as I can. I occasionally dabble in #pixelart as well.
In recent years I’ve seen more interest in seeking tech careers with purpose (and I’m one of those people). I’ve been with this team for nearly 4 years and it’s amazing what you can do when you work on something that aligns with your values. Personally, that’s been fulfilling and empowering.
We maintain a copy of the Electoral Commission register of political parties. Each party has its own page on our site, which shows past and present emblems, ballot descriptions, and links to the the register.
am i the only one who's tired of people shitting on the vision pro seemingly because it's apple?
i think the technology & concept backing it is really interesting. obviously, having all this data & technology locked exclusively to a proprietary and monopolistic company is terrible, but it serves as a pioneering product. maybe i'm being hopeful, but i like to think humane alternatives will crop up as the interest & market develops.. it seems inane to dismiss this line of development so early.