Late last year, I wrote a book devoted to civic hacking based on my experience working in state and local government, and inside civic tech communities.
It’s a book meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy. The premise is simple – governments need to find more effective ways of collaborating with members of their local civic tech communities:
Governments must develop strategies for engagement that can help direct the efforts of outside technology experts to issues or challenges that will have the broadest impact and the largest potential payoff. They will need to learn how to rally people with special talents to a particular cause or challenge, and then to turn those outside efforts into tangible outcomes for government agencies. They must learn to view the technology community as a potential talent pool from which they can draw a new generation of public servants who possess unique expertise in digital service creation.
It’s open source and available on Github. If you have a suggestion for how I can make it better, send a pull request or open a new issue.
I hope you enjoy it.
Civic Innovations 
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