(Notes from a brief introduction I gave at the 10th Annual Civic Scopeathon, put on by my students. Someone asked me to share it, so putting it up here without any real editing.) Civic Tech is a young field, about 20 years old. That means Scopeathon has been around for about half of that time. I want to take a second to talk about what has changed in civic tech in those past twenty years, and why Scopeathon embodies some of the most important ideals.
