Seems like a really interesting area but I can't find an awful lot of info about it online. There seem to be a few disjoint groups of people working on civic stuff, e.g. Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, but everyone seems quite stealthy atm.
San Francisco has a really big push to improving its civic tech. They actually have a CIO for the city itself. They're working on fast wifi available in all public areas, technology to connect people through mesh networks, and tech solutions to basic human problems.<p>It's interesting to see cities adapting tech.
What type of civic technology/innovation?<p>Typically, the ecosystem around open data is much more forthcoming and, well, open. Consider checking out <a href="http://slack.opendatacommunity.io/" rel="nofollow">http://slack.opendatacommunity.io/</a>