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2014.04.25 – NYC’s #CivicHacking Reportback

April 25, 2014

-=-=- TONIGHT -=-=- Join us for #CivicFridays 003 with Civic Service Forum and Harvard’s Kennedy School – http://bit.ly/1tiHX6P -=-=- Announcements -=-=- …
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BetaNYC’s testimony to NYC Council on using technology to proactively address health and safety issues in New York City.

April 23, 2014

Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2014 From: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC To: NY City Council’s Committee on Technology. Subject:…
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NYC BigApps 2014 is now open!

April 14, 2014

NYC BigApps is back for 2014 with new rules and a new mission! Registration has now opened so visit NYCBigApps.com to learn more…
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April 2014 Newsletter

April 10, 2014

Happy Spring! We wanted to send you out a quick newsletter recapping some amazing work that has been done and…
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CitiBike NYC Trip History Data

March 31, 2014

CitiBike NYC Trip History Data We are very proud to support the opening of @CitiBikeNYC trip history data.
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Announcing NYC’s OpenGovTimeline.com

March 13, 2014

Photos of teams that build OpenGovTimeline.com One of the difficulties in explaining the Gov 2.0 movement nationally is the seemingly lack…
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Upcoming Hackathon: 3 Day Startup Bronx

March 11, 2014

Upcoming Hackathon: 3 Day Startup Bronx From our friends at the Concourse Fund: Join 3 Day Startup in the Bronx…
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March 7, 2014

Ana Champeny, an analyst at New York City’s Independent Budget Office, a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information on…
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March 6, 2014

Technology and civic apps are like gardening – except when they’re not. I like the analogy of gardening applied to…
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March 5, 2014

However, there are many holes in the NYPD data, and by one account, nearly a fifth of the NYPD’s location…
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Fill out NYC’s Civic Hacker survey and be entered to win a ticket to PDF 2014

February 28, 2014

TL;DR version > FILL OUT THIS SURVEY & WIN PDF TICKETS! > http://bit.ly/betanyc-survey Great news from our friends at Personal Democracy…
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February 27, 2014

Mayor Emanuel said his decision to release the massive amount of data was intended to allow “community organizations to more…
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