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Civic Personas

Series: Civics
Date: 2023-12-17
Status: release
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This Entry is part of the Series Civics.

Jotting some notes on types of Civic Personas:

The general types of people from a public servant working in an agency, looking outward.

  • Public
  • Politician
  • Policy maker
  • Staffer
  • Partner

From the role of a public servant providing services to citizens:

  • Benefit-seeker
  • Permission-seeker
  • Compliance-seeker

Describing a citizen engaged in another activity.

  • Single-issue activist
  • General watchdog
  • Journalist
  • Academic / nonprofit / thinktank
  • Lobbyist
  • Open-source developer / civic hacker
  • Policy wonk