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(Re)Positioning ourselves
There are a lot of interesting learning through the experience of trying to start a magazine. Question started from what is a magazine and what should be the scope? While there are benefit of making it periodic to ensure we keep making progress on collecting cases and its experience so
Comparative Analysis
Getting Started Right: Planning Your Civic Tech Initiative
Why Most Community Technology Projects End Before They Should Every year, hundreds of community technology projects launch with enthusiasm and good intentions. Volunteers gather to build platforms that make government more transparent, help neighbors connect, or improve public services. Yet within three to five years, most of these projects shut
Field Trip
Civic Tech Toronto
Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-002 Executive Summary Civic Tech Toronto has run weekly hacknight events since 2015, making it the only civic tech organization in Canada to survive the pandemic period of 2020-2023. This case study traces their journey from conception to sustained operation, revealing how intentional design choices around scope, resilience,
Community Story
Story of Civic Dashboard
Location: Toronto, Canada A familiar frustration simmers among residents who care about their city. They know local government exists. They know decisions are being made about transit, housing, parks, and neighborhoods. But when they want to understand what's happening or participate in shaping those decisions, they encounter something
Why magazine and how we pivoted
Why Magazine: Our Evolution We chose the magazine format as a deliberate commitment to quality and consistency. Unlike a blog—which can start and stop unpredictably—a magazine signals a sustained promise to readers. But the magazine itself was never the end goal. It was the vehicle for something larger:
Editorial letter
Globally, countless community-led, self-organized projects—fueled by passion and scarce resources—collapse. Yet we do not have a reliable channel to share the lessons and prevent another collapse in the future. Lessons are wasted. This is the silence we're breaking. For decades, when we've asked "
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The Blueprint
Shared experience of grassroots initiatives
