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This episode we’re talking about building civic startups with Alex Pandel, co-founder of Civic Insight. Alex started Civic Insight in 2012 as her Code for America fellowship project with the City of New Orleans and has grown it into a company over the past two years.

This episode we are joined by Cathy Deng, a civic hacker & data consultant based in Chicago, IL. She is the developer behind an awesome tool called expunge.io, which helps folks with juvenile records kick off the expungement process.

This episode we’re talking with Alan Williams and Samuel Hulick this week about a new project called Citizen Onboard. Alan is a former fellow at Code for America and is now working on a few different projects to strengthen the social safety net and Samuel is a successful user experience consultant and founder of UserOnboard.com

This episode we talk with Ashley Z. Hand, the Chief Innovation Officer of Kansas City, MO and the first female appointed to the role in the nation. We get her take on fiber internet, leveraging the community to solve challenges cities face, and how the digital divide frequently resembles historical physical divisions.

We talk with Clay Johnson of the Department of Better Technology about what designers and technologists should know about working with government and ways government can increase its technology capacity and ability to operate better.

Mark Headd joins us to talk about how cities can build & engage civic developer communities around the valuable data published by City Hall. Mark Headd is the CDO of the City of Philadelphia and a longtime open data advocate.

Frances and Matthew talk about their time at the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS), design principles, secret prototypes, and service design to make the UK government’s website serve citizens better.