Author: Gabrielle Langston

What a week. Ideas that New York’s civic technology community has pushed for years turned into real action.

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NYC’s latest dataset, BetaNYC/New-York-City-Budget, a public GitHub repo where our AI agent scraped and reconciled twenty years of Council Schedule C discretionary awards (FY2009 to FY2027) into structured, queryable data.

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Walk any block, enter any subway. You cannot escape the beauty of New York City’s diversity. It’s a kind of civic joy that only seems to show up when the tournament lines up with our time zone.

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Last Tuesday, BetaNYC’s Associates Board hosted the first BetaBuilders lightning talk event at Wilka’s — Manhattan’s first and only women’s sports bar — and the room delivered.

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I am deeply grateful for my years at Beta, for the people who shaped me, challenged me, trusted me, and taught me what it means to build civic infrastructure with care.

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Yesterday, BetaNYC testified before the Commission on Government Efficiency. Our argument: the city should own its digital infrastructure — its laws, its data, its services — the same way it owns its water infrastructure.

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We launched BetaBuilders, our new community membership program. Also, come celebrate with us at BetaBuilders: Pride Tech Night on Tuesday, June 23!

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Recently, we’ve been thinking about what it means to come together at scale. Right now, millions of people around the world are supporting the Artemis II mission.

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What a week!! Open Data Week, School of Data, and UnSchool of Data have officially wrapped, and we’re still buzzing with gratitude.

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Happy 10th birthday, NYC Open Data Week! We’re over the moon to be commemorating this special moment with you.

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