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Tag: BetaNYC
NYC’s only Mayoral forum on Tech & Open Gov Policy
THIS JUST IN! Our friends at the Coalition for Queens have organized a NYC Mayoral Forum on Tech Policy!
Join us at the NYC Mayoral Candidates Tech Policy forum at the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria) on Monday, June 17th at 6:30 PM to hear the candidates discuss topics related to technology in New York City, including tech jobs and startup companies, STEM education, and government policy.
The discussion will be moderated by Anjali Athavaley of the Wall Street Journal and Nilay Patel of The Verge. Confirmed candidates for the forum include:
- NYC Comptroller John Liu
- Former NYC Councilmember Sal Albanese
- Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr.
- Former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson
- Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner
We hope to make the forum participatory and would love your input. Please submit questions for the candidates on our website or tweet a question with the hashtag #queenstechforum.
This forum is presented in partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image, Partnership for New York City, Code for America NY, and Queens County Young Democrats.
A report back on NYC BigApps’ CityCamp & Demo Night
A report back on NYC BigApps’ CityCamp & Demo Night
This past weekend, the New York City Metro Area hosted five National Day of Civic Hacking events! (Two in Manhattan, One in Brooklyn, One in Queens, and One in Newark, NJ) One of them was the City’s first CityCamp and the last public event before the conclusion of NYC BigApps.
After three months of civic hackers working on solving NYC’s biggest issues, NYC BigApps 2013 hosted NYC’s first CityCamp. Participants hacked and polished their projects, while the general public explored NYC’s civic technology ecosystem and beta tested BigApp projects.
Like other innovation officers in the public sector, Austin’s chief innovation officer will work across city departments in an effort to break down silos, but also have a more outward-facing relationship with the community, helping to develop relationships between the city and universities and other individuals in the tech community.
betaNYC, a Code for America brigade for NYC: betaNYC May 2013 Newsletter
betaNYC, a Code for America brigade for NYC: betaNYC May 2013 Newsletter
It’s been quite the month! Here’s a brief update…
- Video from “Meet Code For America” meetup at OpenPlans. Thanks Joly and NYC’s Internet Society for taping the night.
- Last week, we had DoITT’s Andrew Nicklin and eight of his colleagues debut NYC.gov’s developer portal. It is currently in beta and be explored at < nyc.gov/developers >.
- Also, Volkan and Curtis took Andrew Nicklin’s Open311 made some moves on the nodejs project. Check out their work on GitHub.
- Our friends at Personal Democracy Forum have offered a 20% discount if you use the code “BigApps2013” – (“I highly recommend this conference!’ – Noel)
A call for betaNYC Community Ambassadors!
We are looking for a few good people to help assist with our event schedule and weekly hack nights. Your main responsibility will be to represent our community, help produce our events, and help on-board new members.
Other responsibilities will include: setting up event spaces, coordinating [food and beer], greeting attendees, making announcements, etc. You should be able to attend at least 2 of our Wednesday weekly hacknights a month, as well as be available for a monthly volunteer meeting.
If you are interested in this position, please fill out this form.
NYC BIGAPPS
There are just a few more weeks to submit to NYC BigApps. In the lead up to the June 7th deadline, there are a few more events… Including NYC BigApps CityCamp!
NATIONAL DAY OF CIVIC HACKING!
On 1 June, New York City will have FOUR events as part of a National Day of Civic Hacking.
- NYC BigApps CityCamp – Learn from NYC’s civic technology leaders, get expert advice on your application, and win a trip to the White House.
- EDesign Lab Open Source K12 Hackathon – Build or Contribute to to address compelling K12 learning needs with technology.
- Rockaway Beach Civic Hack Day – developing tools for the community and government to collaborate on rebuilding after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
- NYCPublic.org Design/Hackathon – “Creating tools for School Parents”
“National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. National Day of Civic Hacking will provide citizens an opportunity to do what is most quintessentially American: roll up our sleeves, get involved and work together to improve our society.”
Upcoming Events
- Wed, 5/22: Hacknight
- Wed, 5/29: Hacknight
- Wed, 5/29: NYC Schools’ Gap App Challenge Winners Demo Night
- Sat, 6/1: NYC BigApps CityCamp
- Wed, 6/5: Hacknight / Personal Democracy Forum Conference Pre-party
Community Announcements
How to submit to this newsletter?
Email Ashley at ashley.williams@codeforamerica.org
Submit your announcement, event, etc. by the 10th of every month. We will be sending newsletters out in the middle of every month.
Pretty illustrations aside, this logo is representative of New York in more ways than one: In its adherence to the grid it reflects that of the city (if you can count, you can find your way around here); in its bulkiness it’s allusive to the power of New York as a center of culture, arts, politics and sports; in its shoulder-to-shoulder tightness it is a painful reminder of how little space there is here, but how much we enjoy and thrive in our proximity to each other; and in its openness, where anything can be framed or drawn inside it, it evokes the ability that everyone here has to make their own story, in their own way.
Open data embraces the beauty of a more transparent government,” said NYC Councilspeaker Quinn. “It is the building block of the digital age.
The City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a bill that will create a crime mapping database, allowing the public for the first time to view and search reports of criminal activity at a neighborhood level.
But even now, in an era of hyper-localization, of neighborhood blogs and Patch sites, many of us have little sense of what our community boards are doing, little time to pay attention, and the boards in turn often are short-staffed and cannot possibly disseminate information on every issue.