Civic Tech Working Session: Platform & Public AI Infrastructure

This is the first in-person working session for the Abundance Federation Dublin group. We’re bringing together a small group of engineers, designers, and data-minded people to work on real civic tech.

We already have:

• a working Kindness & volunteering platform (profiles, communities, messaging, tasks, incentives)
• early infrastructure plans for building public, ethically governed AI datasets

To reach our goals we need focused work to deliver usable MVPs.

On the night we’ll:

• walk through the current platform (warts and all)
• outline the data infrastructure work at a high level
• break into small groups to identify:
• what’s most broken
• what’s feasible for volunteers
• who wants to keep working on what

This first session is primarily aimed at people interested in helping shape and build the technical foundations — engineering, design, data infrastructure, or product.
That said, the wider group is deliberately mixed. Not everyone here will write code, and that’s expected.
Over the coming months we’ll also be forming:

• data collection and annotation teams (including student and adult groups),
• testing and feedback groups for the platform,
• and field-based activities (e.g. environmental and farming data days).

If you’re interested in those kinds of contributions, you’re very welcome — this first meetup is just the starting point.

The Meet Up will be:

• In-person, in the Digital Hub, Dublin
• Thursday Feb 12th , 7–9pm
• Pizza and soft drinks provided
• We’ll aim to finish on time around 9pm.
• For anyone who’s up for it, a few of us will likely head to a nearby pub afterward