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nycTWG’s letter to de Blasio on technology and transition
Jennifer Jones Austin & Carl WeisbrodCo-Chairs Mayor-Elect de Blasio Transition Committee December 18, 2013 Dear Co-Chairs Austin and Weisbrod: We write today to draw your attention to the historic opportunity the de Blasio administration has to harness the explosion in everyday Internet and mobile technology. This new technology can help the average New Yorker get…
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It will cost around $13 million to do a runoff election for public advocate, an office with an annual budget of $2 million. Meaning it would be around a third of the cost to declare both candidates public advocate and fund each of them as usual. If you consider one of them would have been…
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The fate of Open Government in New York City
Since 2008, we have seen several Chief Executives elected who have favorable opinions toward innovation in Government. What if that was not the case? What if you had a thriving Open Government / Civic Tech community and somehow a Chief Executive or Legislative body did not want to continue its investment? In 2011, Washington DC’s…
