In other testimony, Noel Hidalgo, executive director of betaNYC, New York City's Code for America brigade called for the creation of a City Council Chief Information or Technology Officer, the hosting
of civic technology town halls and the use of open technology.
«It [the change] has absolutely hurt my business,» noted Ximena Hartsock, a Chilean immigrant and the founder of the Washington D.C. -
based civic technology platform Phone2Action, referring to the H - 1B reforms in an earlier conversation with Inc..
At a Wednesday afternoon oversight hearing of the City Council's Committee on Technology, open data and
civic technology advocates offered praise for the city's progress thus far and recommendations for the city to meet its goals.
New York based, NGO technology powerhouses, Open Plans and Civic Commons will bring news from the cutting edge
of civic technology.
The co-founder and CEO of
the civic technology service Phone2Action relies on a visa program for specialized foreign workers, known as the H - 1B.
Targeting low - income high school / college students who are interested in coding, open government, and
civic technology, the program offers mentoring, programming courses, resource access and an internship.
Surprisingly, there is no definition of «
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civic technology groups we work use the term «civic technology» to describe Information Technology (usually Internet based) that promotes more open and transparent government, makes government digital information more findable and usable by the public, encourages public participation and collaboration -LSB-...]
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