Storytelling and reach: how can we amplify our successes beyond the civic tech community to evidence our impact through mainstream channels?

May 12, 2023

Date: 2:00 pm—May 12, 2023

At this Civic Tech Surgery, the discussion was around the challenges of amplifying civic tech projects and their successes through mainstream channels, as well as their solutions and ideas to tackle these. The panel comprised Daniel Carranza of DATA Uruguay, Attila Juhász from K-Monitor in Hungary, Amy Leach of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and mySociety’s Communications Manager Myfanwy Nixon.

Resources

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A transcript automatically generated by Otter.ai (ie, please be aware there may be errors in spellings etc)

A blog post summarising the challenges discussed and some possible solutions Action Lab #4 could take forward

The Padlet Board where attendees shared their thoughts on the questions raised during the discussion, before, during and after the Surgery (please feel free to add your thoughts to this too!)

The full recording of the Surgery

Action Lab #4: taking ideas forward

Following this Surgery, we convened an Action Lab (aka working group), who worked together to commission a piece of work to help solve common challenges raised by Surgery attendees.

Find out more about what Action Lab #4 commissioned on the Lab’s web page.

More about Action Lab #4