A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

Long-term victories in civic tech often come with a lot of short-term losses along the way. No matter your track record, you will lose battles, and you will have projects fail. Not just occasional failures, either—failures or partial successes are pretty likely outcomes. Losing is tiring; if you’re able to draw lessons out of those failures and share them with the community, they won’t be in vain, but that too demands something of your personal resources.