A full day hackathon by 2025 Cohort Fellows for Civic Tech Camp. Submitted proposals were posted on this collaborative platform where teams worked to address mapping inequality and improve geographic data representation in underserved communities.

In this beginner-friendly course, you'll get an introduction on Voice UX research and design methods, and practice deploying the bot through Voiceflow. Workshop facilitators will host activities while working through building the NYC 311 Chat AI Assistant sandbox, an educational initiative within the Open Civic Tech Project.

How do we not end up building the next Torment Nexus? Good Vibing is a 30-day civic tech experiment that critically examines whether vibecoding, using large language model tools to build software with minimal traditional coding, can be a force for good in the civic tech space.

In collaboration with NYU ITP and SVA IXD, we'll explore how AI systems can be designed responsibly and learn about the Smol Gardens Accountability framework. We’ll start with an intro to small language models and responsible computing, then work through real design challenges in small groups.