About Civic Texts

Civic Texts is an independent publication launched in April 2024 by Alexander B. Howard, a long-time technology journalist and open governance advocate who has been recognized as a “respected trend-spotter and chronicler of government’s use of new media,” one of the world’s most influential people on digital government, and civic technology expert.

Most recently, Howard was the director of the Digital Democracy Project at the Demand Progress Educational Fund, the deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation, the Huffington Post’s first senior editor for technology and society, and O’Reilly Media’s Washington correspondent. 

Despite his better judgement, he still posts, tweets, skeets, toots, grams, threads, and uploads media to the interwebs as @digiphile.

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