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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.
Over the last year, BetaNYC 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 launching a developers forum. Without putting on too many rules, the developer’s forum is where you go to get tough questions answered and have much longer conversations on technology solutions, data, etc… Consider it a 24/7 hacknight.
You can join BetaNYC’s developers forum at http://bit.ly/betanyc-dev
GO FORTH AND HACK!
– BetaNYC Leadership
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…
