{"id":38,"date":"2026-04-17T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:14:43","slug":"towards-a-new-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/2026\/04\/17\/towards-a-new-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a New Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Civic Technology Community Group is developing a Task Force to create a new academic journal with the purpose of serving the field&#8217;s broad ecosystem by providing it with an urgently needed forum for innovative ideas, discoveries, data, and scholarly communication about civic technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While other journals exist today with respect to democracy and community informatics, we still do not have a journal with a primary focus on forefront civic technology and its advancement. A new journal will add value as a forum for articles on these topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further specifics, this journal&#8217;s title, summary, aims, scope, and more, are to be determined by the Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are and will be opportunities for contribution to this project before, during, and after the creation of this new journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to participate in this Task Force, please message the Group in our mailing list. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civic Technology Community Group is developing a Task Force to create a new academic journal with the purpose of serving the field&#8217;s broad ecosystem by providing it with an urgently needed forum for innovative ideas, discoveries, data, and scholarly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/2026\/04\/17\/towards-a-new-journal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/civics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}