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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,…
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Almost a fifth of NYC’s officially published collision data is ambiguous or wrong
Almost a fifth of NYC’s officially published collision data is ambiguous or wrong “The success rate was much less than the combined ArcGIS/Google approach: almost 18% of the intersections could not be associated with lon/lats. However, the Geoclient’s error messages are great. Instead of pulling the wrong lon/lat or nothing at all, it identifies exactly…
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TOMORROW: Downtown Local Government Professionals Happy Hour
Time: Friday, January 31st at 6PM Place: Jeremy’s Alehouse at 228 Front St, Manhattan Make some friends in local gov and support businesses affected by Sandy! Hosted by Nivardo Lopez, Rebecca Godlewicz, Mary Cooley and Yume Kitasei.
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Launching [BetaNYC-Dev]
Over the last year, we started hosting hacknights to empower the civic hacker community. In that time, we heard quite a bit of feedback from developers on demystifying datasets and government practice. Yet, we struggled to find the right away to connect developers, designers, and data scientist to each other. After some feedback, we are…
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#Reinvent311 Mobile Content Challenge
#Reinvent311 Mobile Content Challenge nycopendata: In a City where 70% of 311 calls are resolved simply by providing information, the #Reinvent311 challenge asked civic technologists to develop mobile tools to provide 311 information more quickly and effectively. On January 15, #Reinvent311 finalists from across the city came together to share…
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A collection of NYC’s City-Wide GIS Maps
This is to a collection of official NYC maps. These maps are created by the NYC’s City-wide GIS department. They have a blog, a user guide, and a “Missing Manual.” All of these maps grow from a central map, NYC Map. In general, these maps are updated frequently and the base tool is under constant…
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BetaNYC’s #BeyondTransparency Kickoff Event Summary
QUICK RECAP: For the next seven weeks, BetaNYC is exploring how to build tools for City Council, their staff, and Community Boards. This is us doubling down on our open data and open government advocacy, while educating a new crop of elected officials and their staff. BetaNYC’s #BeyondTransparency will culminate in Code Across NYC, a…
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The main path to reducing inequality and broadening the city’s prosperity will be better education and training to help New Yorkers prepare for the jobs of the future, and if Mr. de Blasio successfully addresses that issue, his legacy as a great mayor will be secure. New York, the Silicon City – NYTimes.com
