A review by martinatan
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Took me about nine months and a family vacation to finally pore over this (I had been annotating it with a lot of reflection when I started it in July) after buying the book in preparation for my first job in civic tech! I found this incredibly helpful as a reference and a reassuring voice for the field. It was great to read it with some inward reflection about the two projects I’ve been on so far and how they are so uniquely government tech projects. I can’t wait to explore more of the recommended further reading scattered throughout the footnotes and in the back of the guide. I am also really interested to see what other types of civic tech guides and essay collections there are out there, especially in the last couple of years since this was published!