Welcome to 2025! We hope you’ve had (or are having) a restful, joyful, and reflective holiday. 2024 certainly brought challenges, but it reminded us that our community and collective interest in building technology for the public good are more important than ever. As we kick off 2025, let’s channel our passion for helping our various communities and renew our commitment to hope. On that note, we bring you this week’s updates.
NYC Open Data Week 📣
The NYC Open Data Week team and Data Through Design are hosting a winter meetup event! Mark your calendars for the Winter Open Data Week Meetup Happy Hour in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday, January 30, 2025, from 5 to 8 pm. More details on the venue will come soon!
Community Resources 📚
- BoardStat, our NYC 311 dashboard for community boards, has been updated for 2025!
- How to Share Memorable Data – Christopher Laubenthal
- Data Stewardship Trends of 2024 – The Data Tank
- How Understanding Data Sovereignty Mitigates Risks for Governments – Government Technology
This Week in NYC Civic Tech / Gov Watch 🏛️
- Governor Hochul signed the LOADinG Act into law. Read the bill here, and catch the statement from New York State Senator Kristen Gonzalez.
- Gothamist launched a policy tracker for the 2025 NYC mayoral candidates.
- Census experts are sounding the alarms on state redistricting and counting efforts ahead of the 2030 Census.
- The NYC Office of Technology & Innovation did a recap of their 2024 achievements and compiled their recent news appearances.
Jobs Alert and Announcements (for more listings, check out #Jobs on Slack) 💼
- BetaNYC is hiring a Public Programs Consultant.
- Fordham University is searching for a Director of Data Management and Integrity.
- The Information is Beautiful Awards 2024 submission is open until January 31.
- The NYC Department of Education is seeking a Data Analyst.
- The Office of Regulatory Compliance & Accountability is recruiting a Data Research Analyst.
Upcoming Events 📅
Note: All times are listed in EDT
- January 8 at 12 pm Demo Day: Building a Collaborative Playbook with Proudly Serving
- January 10 at 12 pm Discovering NYC Open Data: Online Session
- January 14 at 1 pm Fireside Chat with Mike Gifford: Accessibility in Government
- January 23 at 6 pm MTA’s Open Data Stories Thank you for sharing Lisa!
- January 30 at 5 pm Winter Open Data Week Meetup
- January 25 at 12 pm Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2025
- March 21 to April 6, 2025 Data Through Design’s Corpus: Bodies of Data
- March 22 to 30, 2025 NYC Open Data Week
- March 29, 2025 NYC School of Data
- June 19 to 21, 2025 State of the Map US, Boston
That’s all for today! Want to be featured in future posts? Share your community resources, projects, events, and anything else happening so we can feature them in future posts. Take care, and have a great rest of the week!