A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

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showing what’s possible and doing what’s necessary (Location 88)
But our job as civic technologists isn’t to be the hero of the stories we stumble into halfway through; it’s to understand and support the people who have already been in place doing (Location 389)
It would be ridiculous only to work with partners who are already practicing exactly how you’d hope they would, but it’s a recipe for misery to sign on with those who are fully committed to practices you think are antithetical to the change you aspire to drive. (Location 665)
You can easily contribute your labor to this cause if you’re coming from the design or information architecture disciplines. (Location 793)
there are legitimate worries about how to duplicate the security of isolated data centers for certain purposes. (Location 820)
It’s true that nothing new can be made without some risk, but technologists are often too cavalier about failure even in their (Location 890)