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CivicMakers runs a San Francisco civic innovation studio that builds prototypes for agencies, nonprofits and civic startups and reports working directly with users to do co-discovery of problems so product requirements come from observed behavior not assumptions. The claim is that exposing municipal operations by visualizing city data increases civic engagement; recommended starting point is the city’s open datasets at data SFO org. Emphasizes volunteering technical skills and exploring department datasets as practical, hands-on learning.
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