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@BetaNYC’s testimony in support of @NYCcouncil rules reform and the creation of a Council CIO
Date: Monday, 23 Feb 2014 From: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC To: NY City Council’s Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections. Subject: For a modern 21st Century City, NY Council needs modern and inexpensive member services and tools constituent services. Dear Chairman and Committee Members, Good afternoon. It is a great honor to address…
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#CodeAcrossNYC 2014 wrap up
BetaNYC’s 1st class photo by Daniel Wilson. What an amazing weekend! On friday, TechPresident wrote about digital engagement starting to be the new normal in NY City Council and City Hall. Just one day later, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council member Ben Kallos, Council member Mark Levine, five representatives from Community Boards, NYC DoITT, and…
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BetaNYC’s Statement of support for the Mayor’s Vision Zero Report & the release of data
Date: Monday, 23 Feb 2014 From: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC To: NY City Council joint hearing on Mayor’s Vision Zero report. Subject: In support of the Mayor’s Vision Zero report, particularly tools for data and engagement to empower local decision making capabilities. Dear Chairs, Good morning Transportation and Public Safety Committees. It is…
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NY City Council wants to be more responsive
noneck: On Monday, February 24th, at 2pm, the NY City Council’s Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections will hold a public hearing on the question: “What changes in the City Council’s Rules can make a more responsive, transparent, and effective legislature?” The hearing will be in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. If you…
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Welcome to #CodeAcrossNYC 2014.
Welcome to #CodeAcrossNYC 2014. This is @BetaNYC’s second annual Code Across. This is a global day of action in partnership with International Open Data Day (#OpenDataDay) and Code for America’s Code Across (#CodeAcross). For the last eight weeks, NYC’s civic hackers have explored NYC’s open data and developed projects to demonstrated the power open data…
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nycopendata: DoITT recently updated and automated a number of datasets, including the Department of Health and Mental Health’s flu vaccine locations and farmers market locations, the Department of Sanitation’s monthly tonnages and graffiti removal, and the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s lost property and active drivers, among others. The real time information in these datasets begins…
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Three years later, Torpey is no longer worried. In fact, he is so sure that young people should make similar leaps into office that he is taking on a new project: Finding other emerging leaders and cultivating them. The Wunderkind New Jersey Town President Who Wants to Seek Out Other Wunderkinds – Next City
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is planning to dramatically expand a program that embeds appointees among the executive chamber and into state agencies to work on his priority projects and help form state policy. Cuomo looks to expand fellows program – Times Union
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Code Across NYC 2014 is next weekend!
Join us on 22 Feb for #CodeAcrossNYC 2014. This is a two day prototype-athon taking NYC’s open government data and making it useful for NY City Council, their staff, and NYC’s Community Boards. In partnership with the Manhattan Borough President’s office, several City Council members and Community Boards, now is the time to make NYC’s…
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A special message from NYC BigApps 2014! Register to be a mentor.
NYC BigApps launched in 2009 with a mission to open City data to the public. The competition is now the premier civic technology initiative of the City of New York. We pose a single question to our hundreds of annual participants: can you make NYC better with technology? BECOME A BIGAPPS MENTORFrom March to June,…
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Council members Brad Lander and Ben Kallos, along with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, are the first New York elected officials to sign up for a new online platform that allows the public to directly ask questions of elected officials. The new site, called AskThem.io, is based on the White House’s “We the People” campaign,…
