Governance systems are not malfunctioning.
They are operating beyond their design capacity.
Orpheus 2045 examines what comes next.
#CivicDesign
It stays calm because it’s designed not to attract people who want to cause trouble.
Starting around March, we’ll slowly add more categories for worries and hobbies.
Nonprofit Organization Yururi Concept
#Forum #LivedExperience #PeerSupport #CivicTech #CivicDesign
There’s a difference between giving a community a tool and giving them access. Only one of those rewires how a place thinks.
Today’s piece is about the moment everything clicked. Just not the way we expected.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/rebuilding-digital-commons?r=6l8ed8
#DigitalCommons #CivicTech #OpenSource #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #EdTech #DigitalSovereignty #FutureOfDemocracy #CollectiveIntelligence #CivicInnovation
#OpenData #Civicdesign
Every institution has a ghost. And no, not the Halloween kind. The kind made of old habits, old fears, old rituals and old incentives. The kind that politely swallows our best reform ideas time and again.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-with-ghosts-a-practical?r=6l8ed8
#democracy #governance #systemsthinking #reform #publicpolicy #politics #politicalculture #InstitutionalMemory #civicdesign
🎥 A short film on institutional memory, reform as ritual, and the systems that continue not because they serve — but because they survived.
Also live:
📖 Why Reform Fails When It Forgets the Ghost Layer — a companion essay on architectural memory, cultural delay, and the emotional residue of power.
Watch → youtu.be/RfijSyrjwww
Read → https://redefine.pt/2025/07/07/ghost-layer-of-systems/
#IllegibleSystems #CivicDesign #SystemThinking #politics #Power
Wired for Collapse: How Digital Systems Hijack Human Resilience
Digital tools shape more than behavior—they shape what we notice, what we ignore, and whether we act.
This piece explores how algorithmic saturation and aestheticized crisis quietly erode civic agency and emotional bandwidth.
Read here →https://redefine.pt/2025/07/03/wired-for-collapse/
#DigitalSystems #CivicDesign #EmotionalLiteracy #resilience #democraticbacksliding
Applying CHÔRA’s City Transformation Stencil — a Story from Georgia by CHÔRA: Reflections on the Design of a Startup Ecosystem Portfolio for a city called Batumi
https://link.medium.com/qagg5PSeOQb #civicdesign #civictech
What a beautiful tool where we can play around to design, remix, and experiment in streets-design: https://streetmix.net/-/2814713
I am doing a course via EIT Urban Mobility on Streets for Children, and found a few tools, including this one. h/t Cristina Rivas
We're hiring a Lab Manager to support with research, lead data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Come work with us! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
We're hiring a Civic Tech Lab Manager to oversee data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 🙌
Interested or know someone who might be? Come join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, monitor data requests, and manage data-driven projects! 📣 👀
If you're interested or know someone who might be, come join our team! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
We're looking for a Lab Manager to support our research efforts, handle data requests, and contribute to data-driven projects! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, data requests, and work on data-driven projects!📊 📣
Sound like you or anyone you know? Come work with us!
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
David Guarino transformed the formerly-complex #CalFRESH digital application into a simple, 10-minute process. "The end result was a lowest-burden application form that actually gets a caseworker what they need to efficiently and effectively process it. We did a lot of iteration to figure out that sweet spot," he says. Learn more about building great government websites from this real-world example in Asterisk Magazine https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/how-to-make-a-great-government-website #drupal4gov #civicdesign
Public sector organizations need help with their digital transformation journeys as much as anyone. Our experience in this area has helped us create a digital communications governance guide that covers the fundamentals. Read on for:
- The evolution of digital governance and transformation
- Agile practices for communications governance
- Auditing and identifying stakeholders
- Documenting communications governance policies
https://www.palantir.net/blog/digital-communications-governance #drupal4gov #civicdesign #drupal
Videos for the 2024 NYC Schoolf of Data community conference about #CivicDesign, #CivicTech, and #OpenData became recently available, via @BetaNYC
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgCe1KzF20iy1lktOJw4_FGzw1P74QlRF
Past years, and other events: https://www.youtube.com/@betanyc/playlists
More about the event: https://schoolofdata.nyc
An example of citizens-centric service design—"Inclusive decision-making requires openness, expertise and structures" by VTT Finland
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/inclusive-decision-making-requires-openness-expertise-and-structures #civictech #civicdesign
"Every interaction between the government and the American public is an opportunity to deliver the services our people expect and deserve. And when we don’t, that’s a cost to our nation." Authors Lashanda Hodge and Aaron Stienstra break down the government's nationwide effort to implement equitable, human-focused civic design that serves all people. Check it out in Digital Gov https://digital.gov/resources/embedding-equity-in-civic-design-to-transform-customer-experience/ #civicdesign #civictech
JOB ALERT — we’re hiring a Data Analyst to join our Civic Innovation Lab. Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? Come join us to perform data analysis and do research for civic stakeholders.
Let’s build the future of #civictech #opendata and #civicdesign together! Learn more and apply at https://betanyc.forms.fm/data-analyst-civic-innovation-associate/forms/9800.
Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? We’re hiring a Data Analyst to support research and data assistance services (RADAR) in our Civic Innovation Lab.
Come join us! Learn more and apply at bit.ly/betanyc-analyst.
#NYC #JobAlert #dataanalyst #civicdesign #civictech #opendata
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