To watch Jess Sand lead a meeting of developers and others building an air-quality related app is to see a snapshot of the civic tech movement today.
Civic tech projects start out looking like it’s all about technology. But the more you look, the more you see that “civic” — meaning the development team, the people who’ll use their app, and anyone who might someday find value in their work — swings way more weight than “tech” ever will.
The project has been in the works for a few years already, and this team is at least its second generation to take it on.… Read the rest “The “spaghetti soup of challenges” for an air quality app”