The Revolution Starts Now — Reflections on Civic Tech’s Early Days

I am barely a footnote in the movement you might call Civic Tech. While folks like Mikey Dickerson were rescuing Healthcare.gov in 2013 I was running a mayoral race in New Haven, Connecticut. After my candidate dropped out of the race I did not get a job fixing Obamacare, I ended up enrolling in it. Unemployed, with more swagger than skills, I walked into the offices of SeeClickFix on Chapel St…