A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

One of the strongest infrastructure plays we can make as civic technologists is to work on data projects. There are few useful services that don’t depend on data, and having it available in a convenient, machine-readable format is a precondition for all kinds of further building and action.[ 23] In many places within the public sector, valuable data is on paper in binders and file cabinets; many digital systems are merely containers for scanned, unindexed PDFs.