Early volunteer civic tech efforts reflected the demographics of people who had the time and means to do free work, and in particular skewed toward engineers and open-source contributors. All of these categories tend to be whiter, more male, and more affluent than American society at large—and for a field that aspires to make technology for everyone, this is a problem.370 ↱
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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
Cyd Harrell