The Civic Hacker Podcast
by Lori McNeill, Founder | Civic Hacker Network
Problems have solutions. We're here to learn about them from regular people creating change in their communities using data and technology. Each season of the Civic Hacker Podcast includes audio from the Civic Hacker Summit and news from the Civic Hacker Network. The Civic Hacker Podcast © 2023 by Lori McNeill is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Episodes
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Sustaining the Work - What is Your Plan?
Anca is the founder and director of La Sobremesa where she has worked with civil society organizations and networks in Latin America and the global south for over a decade. In her interview, Anca describes how she founded La Sobremesa to solve a problem that she spotted where there was a lack of...
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Remote Volunteering Revolution: A Conversation with Jens Christian Trier of We Make Change
In this BONUS episode, we’re joined by Jens Christian Trier, cofounder of We Make Change, a platform at the forefront of the remote volunteering movement. Jens shares the story behind We Make Change and how it has grown to connect volunteers and nonprofits across the globe. Co-host Charlene Phua…
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YouthMappers: Empowering Global Changemakers with Geospatial Technology
In this bonus episode, we welcome a panel from YouthMappers, a global community that empowers students to use geospatial technology to tackle critical challenges. Our guests include YouthMappers co-founder Chad Blevins and regional ambassadors Fey Anda and Erick Tamba Mnyali. Tune in to learn how...
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Techshift Alliance: Building a Network for Responsible Tech
Join us as we dive into the world of student led tech-for-good with Maria Filipelli, a TechShift Alliance board member, and Ciara Ungar, the acting president. TechShift Alliance is a network dedicated to supporting student groups who focus on creating positive change through technology. In this...
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Elevating Down-Ballot Races with Joy Malonza of The Down Ballot
Joy Malonza is the founder of The Down Ballot, where she is building a one-stop-shop that provides progressive constituents with resources to make informed decisions on who best represents their core values. In her interview, Joy describes how she spotted the problem of disconnect between on the...
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Civic Hacking: It Starts With You - Featuring Code for Singapore
In this special bonus episode, guest host Charlene Phua from the Global Civic Hacker Action Team brings us an inspiring story from Singapore. Meet Zhennan Low, the entrepreneur-turned-civic hacker behind Code for Singapore. Discover how Zhennan, without a tech background, successfully launched an...
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Impact and Inclusion in Singapore
BONUS EPISODE! Guest host Charlene Phua introduces BetterSG, a tech for good community in Singapore aiming to bridge the digital divide in nonprofits and charities by helping them leverage tech solutions. With over 2,000 volunteers, BetterSG focuses on skill-based volunteering. Initiatives…
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Peace Building In the Digital Age
Caleb is an explorer of digital spaces and has researched and applied various technologies to address election violence, good governance, extremism and conflict mitigation. Being from Kenya, he has worked with different peace actors across Africa to respond to violent conflict applying digital...
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Making a Difference Through Peace Work
David Corliss is the founder and Director of Peace-Work, an all-volunteer cooperative of statisticians and data scientists applying statistical methods to issue-driven advocacy in poverty, education, social justice, and providing analytic support for charitable groups. In his interview, David...
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Co-Creating Innovative Wealth-Building Ecosystems in HUD Communities
Melvin Anderson is the developer of a comprehensive SaaS/cloud based platform called ExploreSkillz that offers next generation career discovery apps and solutions. In his interview, Melvin explains ExploreSkillz's unique process of showing children a wide variety of career possibilities unknown…
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Creating Equity in Academia Through Open Scholarship
Flavio Azevedo covers many important topics, including open science vs. open scholarship, DEIA in academic research, the social justice lens on changing the norms and structures in science and science training, and what advocates and activists can bring into their practice from this work. Links…
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Helping Local Governments Fund Community Priorities
Chris Fabian is the CEO and Co-founder of Resource Exploration. During his session, Chris speaks about personal experiences and how data can be used to help governments take informed actions to reduce harms that can result from budget decisions and prepare for future recession. Learn more on our...
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Today I Learned About the National Historical GIS from IPUMS
David Van Riper is the director of Spatial Analysis at the Institute of Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota. During his session, David walks through how to get started with the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), which provides historical and...
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Listen Up! Building an Ethical, Transparent Social Understanding Platform
Darío García de Viedma and the team at Citibeats are using technology to help municipal decision-makers prevent and mitigate crises by analyzing open source data with NLP algorithms. He led the design of the Social Indicators, thanks to an alliance with Princeton and NYU scholars. These are...
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Mission-Driven Multi-Tasking: Paying the Bills and Mobilizing Communities to Power Queer and Trans Movements
Jack Beck is the Founder and Executive Director of TurnOut, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing communities to power queer and trans movements. TurnOut works year-round to recruit volunteers, staff, and board members for queer and trans nonprofits, providing the training and support they need to...
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Reclaiming the Power of Money for the New Generation of Communities
This episode features the insight and wisdom of Alanna Irving, Executive Director of Open Collective Foundation and Chief Operating Officer of Open Collective, Inc. You will learn about the resources and support available for your initiative through the Open Collective platform, and hear an...
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Data-Driven Solutions to End Police Violence
This episode features Samuel Singyangwe, the data scientist and policy analyst who founded Mapping Police Violence, the Police Scorecard and co-founded Campaign Zero to advance data-driven solutions to end police violence in America. Samuel shares with us how he and a team of volunteers are...
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Putting Data to Work for Impact in Rural Communities
Today’s episode features a discussion with Deb Halliday who is a prominent community builder, writer, artist and a nationally recognized leader for multi sector collaborations. Through her firm Halliday and Associates, she regularly speaks with groups large and small about how we can work…
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Improving the Social Sector Using Data and Tech
In today’s episode we connect with Andrew Means who is the founder of the Goodtech Fest conference, co-founder of Brighthive, senior Director for Global Impact Data Strategy at Salesforce.org, and founder of Data Analysts for Social Good. He shares with us what he has learned from dedicating his...
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Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government
This discussion features Jan Ainali, who served as the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige after co-founding the chapter and being its chairman. Besides his current project with Govdirectory he is also the co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development, a user group in the Wikimedia movement...
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Using AI to Meet the Global Goals
Today we speak with Max Lynam who is the founder of isgood, an organization that he created to lead an intelligence revolution in the way we measure value. Max shares with us how he came to the work of impact measurement, and his vision for “AI Guided Social Impact” that uses thousands of...
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Building a WorkerTech Ecosystem
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Christina J. Colclough, founder of the Why Not Lab and co-creator of WeClock. She shares how they are working towards putting workers at the center of digital change. Christina works with unions, interest organizations and governments across the world on issues…
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Civic Hacker Superheroes Are Real
Today’s featured conversation is with Ricardo Miron who is an avid civic hacker, regular mentor and organizer of hackathons and a community leader at Microsoft, Future Lab. Ricardo discusses his role as Lead Project Manager at Codeando México, and their projects which focus on civic tech, open...
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Two Civic Hackers Walk Into a Zoom ...
In this special bonus episode, we are featuring a conversation between two phenomenal past Civic Hacker Summit speakers; they are Allen Hillery, data storyteller, instructor, and cofounder of Be Data Lit, an educational resource for data literacy advocates, and Samuel Sinyangwe, a data scientist...
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Affordable Housing Access Gets a Digital Makeover!
Today’s episode features a discussion with Kathy Cheng who is using data and technology to improve access to affordable housing. Kathy is the senior product manager for Exygy and has experience in early stage high growth startups, as well as digital agency work in sectors ranging from e-commerce…
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Hacking Data Equity with Tableau
This episode features Channing Nesbitt, who is the co-founder of the Tableau Foundation’s Racial Justice Data Initiative, and led the team driving the Racial Equity Data Hub. Channing shares his experiences in these roles and what he has learned from their work to empower users of varying...
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Using Crowdsourced Data to Spread Good Karma
Today’s episode features the founder of Karmalize, the world's first and only online directory of socially responsible businesses, searchable by social cause, and completely crowdsourced from people who care about making a better future. After a 30+ year career in the consulting, technology, and...
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Q&A With the U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau open data is a key ingredient in important civic tech projects and policy advocacy work. In this episode we get to hear directly from a Census Bureau expert, Lia Bolden, as she answers questions from the Civic Hacker Network members and demystifies the new data being…
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Identity, Inclusion, and Inspiration
In this episode, you will listen to Matt Scott who leads storytelling at Project Drawdown which is the world’s leading climate solutions resource project. Matt is also the creator of inclusive impact storytelling project Let's Care, and the film 20’s and Change: San Francisco. He shares with us…
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Hacking Communication to Prevent Identity-Based Violence
Today we speak with Rachel Brown who is the Founder and Executive Director of Over Zero, an organization that merges research and practice to prevent identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm. She shares with us how communication can be a weapon for identity based violence…
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Turning Stories Into Data for Change
In today’s episode we get the opportunity to hear from Alexandra Pittman who is the founder and CEO of ImpactMapper and HERO Index. She shares with us how ImpactMapper facilitates change measurement for a variety of organizations by helping them to understand and effectively use both qualitative...
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Hacking DEI in Tech
In today's episode we hear from Hugo Seureau who is the CEO and co-founder of Essteem. We learn about their unique approach to hackathons that led to the invention of the “Equalithon”, as well as their mission; to connect people, start-ups, nonprofits and a variety of companies in the technology...
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Art, Code, and Black Data Stories
In today's episode we speak with Anthony Starks, an independent developer and designer interested in data visualization, combining Art+Code and building open-sourced tools such SVGo (SVG generation), deck/decksh, and dchart. He gives us empowering information on the ways that we can use data as a...
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Data Literacy, Black History, and You
Today’s conversation is with Allen Hillery who is the Co-Founder of Be Data Lit, a platform that promotes education for data literacy advocates, and a co-creator of the surprise data visualization sensation, the “DuBois Challenge”. He takes us behind the scenes of the challenge and leaves us with...
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Combating Human Trafficking with Powerful Data Tools
This episode is being released in January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, so we are featuring a conversation from the original Civic Hacker Summit that focused on innovative tools designed to help law enforcement build cases against trafficking rings using data gleaned from the web....
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[BONUS EPISODE] Impact Blockers: 4 Mistakes Standing Between You & the Change You Want to See
We recently hosted a webinar titled, “Impact Blockers: 4 mistakes standing between you and the change you want to see”. This BONUS EPISODE features the audio from that webinar. If questions about the impact of your work make you feel like a deer stuck in headlights, you're not alone. So many…
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3, 2, 1... Impact!
Today's episode features a conversation with Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research at mySociety, a U.K. based not-for-profit organization that helps people be active citizens using civic technology, research and data across 40 countries. mySociety’s research team seeks to discover what works — and…
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AI for Good
For Episode 05 of the Civic Hacker Podcast, "AI for Good", we are featuring a conversation with Friederike Schüür to talk about how we can use data and AI for good, AI capabilities and ethics considerations, and some simple concepts that can help you make a bigger impact in your civic and social...
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Hacking Food Insecurity
In Episode 04 of the Civic Hacker Podcast, "Hacking Food Insecurity", we sit down with Tim Yoon to talk about his winning National Day of Civic Hacking project, and the journey that followed to develop the idea into a working tool on the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services website. This...
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Mapping for Impact
This week we are joining in the international celebration of GIS technology by bringing you a very special GIS-focused talk from the Civic Hacker Summit Archives, "3 Questions You Can Answer With Maps". This session was presented by Esther Needham, Project Manager on the Data Analytics team at...
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No Data, No Change
Amy Bach founded Measures for Justice in 2011 as a follow-up to her acclaimed book Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court. The book won the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and was succeeded by an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times titled Justice by the Numbers. In this episode of the Civic...
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Hacking Homelessness
How much do you know about how to get people experiencing homelessness into housing and connected with appropriate resources? In this episode of The Civic Hacker Podcast, hear inspiring details about the data-driven solution to homelessness being advanced by the Built for Zero program from...
About this show
Problems have solutions. We're here to learn about them from regular people creating change in their communities using data and technology. Each season of the Civic Hacker Podcast includes audio from the Civic Hacker Summit and news from the Civic Hacker Network. The Civic Hacker Podcast © 2023 by Lori McNeill is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Lori McNeill, Founder | Civic Hacker Network
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