Have you noticed that it’s easier to navigate phila.gov these days? Or are you eagerly awaiting free public WiFi? Or have you used the SEPTA app, or Philly 311? That’s all civic tech.

Alongside sister site Generocity, we at Technical.ly are taking to our public Slack to interview civic technologists live this Friday, Nov. 16, from 1 to 2 p.m. in support of open data month of Technical.ly’s editorial calendar and civic tech month of Generocity’s editorial calendar.

For the uninitiated: Slack is like instant messaging, but for workspaces or other communities, and in channels with specific topics. On Technically Media’s internal Slack, for instance, we have a few dozen channels ranging from #the-newsroom to #brag-tag to #failure to #family.

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