New Politics Forum and the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life present Civic Life in the Cyber Age at the Belo Center for New Media.
Kacie Lyn Kocher, Director of Organizational Design and Stakeholder Engagement at Civic Hall Labs
Civic Tech is #trending in terms of increasing media coverage, funding, and policy pushes for government openness and transparency. Is it just a buzzword, a budding field, or something different altogether? Kacie Lyn Kocher, the Director of Organizational Design at Civic Hall Labs, takes a deep dive into civic tech as a contested and amorphous term, yet a growing community of practice. She then discusses the challenges faced by institutions, activists, municipalities, and technologists alike in advancing the use of technology for the public good. What’s at risk? The failure to define, measure, and mature civic tech norms, efforts, tools, and understanding has deep repercussions on our public lives and tools and programs we build for them. It’s our responsibility to collectively concretize civic tech to reflect our values and selves, in order to craft a new connected civics for the
21st century.
