Readings
Books
- Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- Beyond Transparency, Code for America Press
- Web Scraping with Python by Ryan Mitchell
- The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit by Ralph Kimball and Joe Caserta
Articles / Videos
- Beyond Tech: Policymaking in the Digital Age by Jennifer Pahlka
- Civic Tech as a Tween by Cyd Harrell
- “Healthcare.gov and the Gulf between Planning and Reality” by Clay Shirky
- Two Kinds of Empathy by Abhi Nemani
- “People, Not Data” by Jake Solomon
- Govtech: the $400B Market Hiding in Plain Sight by Ron Bouganim
- Government as a Platform by Tim O’Reilly
- The Strategy is Delivery by Mike Bracken (Video)
- Scaling Civic Tech by The Knight Foundation
- Before the Commit: A Note for Tech Friends Newly Motivated to Hack for Justice by Michelle Lee
- 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech by Anil Dash
- Building Technology with, not for by Laurenellen McCann
- A Serenity Prayer for GovTech by Catherine Geanuracos
- Small (City) Pieces, Loosely Joined by Abhi Nemani
- Why Good Hackers Make Good Citizens by Catherine Bracy (Video)
- GovTech Business Model Canvas by Frederik Groce
- Y Combinator Founder Stories: Detroit Water Project by Tiffani Ashley Bell
- My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work by Joshua Tauberer
- What side are you on, Vendors? by Jennifer Pahlka
- How Technology Is Transforming The Government CIO Role by Andrew Kirk
Additional (Optional) Reading
- Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups by Evan Burfield
- Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice by O’Reilly Media (Compilation)
- The Responsive City by Susan Crawford and Stephen Goldsmith
- Civic Tech: Making Technology Work for People by Andrew Schrock
- The CUT Book by SmartChicagoCollaborative
- Smart Cities by Anthony Townsend