TICTeC Civic Tech Surgery #1: Public-private collaborations
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2021-11-01

This event was the first in a series of TICTeC Civic Tech Surgeries, as part of mySociety's newly expanded TICTeC Labs programme of activities and events (https://tictec.mysociety.org/tictec-labs/).

Each Civic Tech Surgery will focus on a different topic that has been identified by the TICTeC Labs Steering Group as a key challenge for the civic tech sector.

The topic of this Civic Tech Surgery is 'Public-private collaborations: how can civic tech work effectively with public and private institutions?'

During the Surgery, we heard about the challenges of working on private-public civic tech projects from practitioners Aline Muylaert of CitizenLab; Gabriella Razzano of OpenUp in South Africa; and Ebtihaj Khan from Code for Pakistan.

The Surgery also featured reflections from civic tech researcher Amanda Clarke, Associate Professor at Carleton University, who gave her perspectives on any evidence gaps or research ideas on the topic that might be beneficial, that can then be tackled in subsequent TICTeC Action Labs.

Find out more about TICTeC Labs here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/tictec-labs/