Cyd Harrell > Quotes

“Because its goal is change, civic tech embodies an interesting split between demonstrating and operationalizing the potential of modern tech. I like to call these two branches showing what’s possible and doing what’s necessary.”
― Cyd Harrell, A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

“Civic tech is a loosely integrated movement that brings the strengths of the private-sector tech world (its people, methods, or actual technology) to public entities with the aim of making government more responsive, efficient, modern, and more just.”
― Cyd Harrell, A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

“But there’s a tendency to equate being “good at technology” with being “a smart person”—and it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that these are learnable skills, which some people have more time than others to learn because of privilege.”
― Cyd Harrell, A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide