Civic Tech Chat is a podcast about the civic technology movement. We seek to harness the power technology has to improve the delivery of public services to people everywhere.
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AI tools have quietly moved out of isolated dev environments and into the middle of how real work gets done. That shift is genuinely exciting, and it brings a fresh set of risks worth sitting with. In this solo episode, Ryan works through what it takes to govern AI well, all of it anchored on one idea he keeps coming back to: a human has to stay accountable for the decisions that matter. He gets…
We're joined by David D'Silva, Principal Product Manager at Nava, for a conversation about legacy lockpicks: the reusable tools, playbooks, and patterns that help government teams move out of legacy systems faster and with less risk. We talk about why trust is the real currency of modernization work, why so many efforts stall at the data layer, and how to choose between patterns like strangler fig…
In this interview, Brian Chidester from Adobe discusses the importance of AI readiness in government, data governance, and the future of AI in public sector transformation. Learn how organizations can start small, build trust, and leverage AI to improve citizen services and drive mission outcomes. Music Credit: Tumbleweeds by Monkey Warhol
Christian Martinez shares his journey from cognitive neuroscience to civic tech, highlighting the importance of open data, reproducible research, and building accessible tools like R packages. Discover how relevance drives rigor in education and data projects, and learn practical tips for getting started with open data and open source development. Resources and Shoutouts NYC Open Data Portal:…
Ryan Koch discusses the importance of understanding supply chain attacks in cybersecurity, illustrating how they exploit trust in software components and build systems, and offering practical strategies to mitigate these risks. Resources and Shoutouts: - GRC Engineering Presentation by AJ Yawn:…
We're joined by Mark Headd author The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Modernizing Legacy Technology Systems . We talk about good modernization practices like the strangler fig pattern as well as ways teams can use artificial intelligence to develop specifications that can be understood and validated across both technical and programmatic teams. Music Credit: Tumbleweeds by Monkey Warhol
We’re joined by Ed Mullen , Technical Solutions Director and Lauren Ciferri Director of Product, over at Nava PBC . We’ll have a conversation about open source government technology, using Nava’s Strata project as a key example. The chat will dive into importance of open source in the space, maintaining projects like this one, and how one can get involved. Resources and shoutouts: Email Ed Email…
We're joined by Mike Paciello (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-paciello-1231741/), Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye (https://audioeye.com) for a conversation about web accessibility standards. We'll talk about upcoming deadlines for local and state governments, foundational principles, and what goes into establishing and updating standards. Resources and shoutouts: - Civic Plus…
Our host Ryan Koch talks about the Dutch Government's invocation of the 1952 Good Availablity Act. This action recently led to what's been referred to as the 'Nexperia Crises' creating a scenario where technical hardware manufacturing, supply chains, and geopolitics collided. ##### Music Credit: Tumbleweeds by Monkey Warhol Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/hECzBJh
We’re joined by Senongo Akpem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/senongoakpem/) Vice President of Design and Research at Nava PBC (https://navapbc.com/). Together we talk about shifts in the direction of the design and research practice, innovative practices to build capacity and leadership within it, and its future as new tools like artificial intelligence emerge and become part of it. Resources and…
