Hello everyone, we have 17 days till election day!! We are encouraging our community to learn more about NYC’s Propositions! We have a chance to ratify a Equal Rights Amendment and say no to five anti-democratic proposals!
Second! We have some exciting news to share! CUNY’s Public Interest Tech Lab and BetaNYC have secured a New America PIT-UN Challenge grant! Learn more from this announcement from Rev. Dr. Katie Cumiskey. This award will allow us to explore expanding our Civic Innovation Fellowship into a career pipeline, regardless of CUNY School and major! Furthermore, we will have a NYC PIT POP-UP — imagine an Apple Store for Public Interest Tech, Open Data, and Service Design!! Thank you to everyone who made this moment possible!
NYC Open Data Week 2025 📣
It is time to submit your ideas for NYC Open Data Week 2025, including our NYC School of Data conference and Data Through Design’s Corpus exhibition! You have two weeks to share your ideas — the deadline is November 1 at 11:59pm.
This Week in NYC Civic Tech / Gov Watch 🏛️
- Early voting starts in one week! Here are the things to know:
- How should part of the city’s budget be spent? Now’s the time to submit your ideas as part of the People’s Money, New York City’s annual citywide Participatory Budgeting initiative.
- Jason Forrest created an interactive steam graph of NYC immigration dating back to 1820!
Jobs Alert and Announcements (for more listings, check out #Jobs) 💼
- Coding it Forward’s 2025 Fellowship applications are open until October 27.
- Esri is seeking a Solution Engineer – Local Government (NYC) and a Sr. Solution Engineer – Local Government (NYC).
- The New York Times is hiring a Graphics Multimedia Editor- Cartography.
- NYC Analytics Exchange is hosting the fourth annual Learning Summit on October 23 and 24! The summit will feature ten educational sessions for NYC employees to improve their data analytics, data engineering, and data governance skills. Registration is open to City employees only, and the link only works on the City network. If you are a City employee not on the City network, please contact Oliver Bjornsson on Slack or at objornsson@oti.nyc.gov.
Upcoming Events 📅
Note: All times are listed in EDT
- October 18-20 2024 Open House New York Weekend
- October 23 at 1pm The Problem with Data Portals (thank you for sharing Joel Natividad!)
- October 26 at 9:30am TransportationCamp NYC 2024
- November 1 at 12pm Discovering NYC Open Data: Online Session
- November 1 at 11:59pm Submission deadline for NYC School of Data
- November 5 Election Day! Use this poll site locator for NYC, and nationally look at Vote.org
- November 19-20 Urban Tech Summit
- November 20 GIS Day
That’s all for now! Want to be featured in future posts? Share your projects, events, announcements, and anything else happening with our community. Have a great weekend!