The Education of a Civic Technologist
summary
U.S. Digital Response claims over 300 projects with 900 volunteers and pivots on concrete outcomes: a Seattle testing site that reaches over a million tests, an emergency rental assistance workflow that pushes ~$13 million to several thousand people, and a poll-worker system scaling toward 75 counties. Builds favor low‑code stacks—Airtable + Zapier + JotForm—prioritize demos not memos, answer “who fixes it when it breaks,” and hand tools to local staff so they maintain and extend them.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to USDR
- 4:55Covid testing project
- 12:08Rental assistance program
- 21:59Election poll worker project
- 30:10Lessons and getting involved
- 34:26Q&A session
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