What’s New in NYC Civic Tech – March 27, 2025

Hello everyone, it’s hard to believe we’re approaching the end of Open Data Week 2025! This week, we’ve enjoyed building tools, creating visualizations, mapping, coding, and thinking of data through a critical lens.

But most of all, we’ve enjoyed connecting with you and learning your stories. Thank you to those of you who have joined us so far! 🫶🏾 If you haven’t joined us yet, no fear—we’re not done yet! There are still plenty of events coming up.

📊 Coming up at NYC Open Data Week 📊

March 28 at 9 am EDTMorning Coffee with the Open Data Week Team ☕ 3.28. Start off your day with the NYC Open Data Week Team! Come connect with event organizers and fellow attendees, ask questions, share announcements, and get a sneak peek at the day’s highlights.

March 28 at 10 am EDTDiscovering NYC Open Data: An Introductory Class. Come learn how to use NYC Open Data with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data. The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

March 28 at 6 pm EDTOpen Data Lightning Talk Showcase. Join the NYC Office of Technology & Innovation for a lightning talk showcase, featuring open data use cases about the human brain, the environment, web domains, trash cans, and film locations.

🏫 Coming up at NYC School of Data 🏫

Continue the NYC Open Data Week 2025 celebrations this Saturday at NYC School of Data! Join us at CUNY School of Law; we’ll have 30+ sessions that demystify the policies and practices surrounding open data, public interest technology, and service design. Register today and check out the schedule! We also have ASL translation upon request, scholarships (deadline is extended to tomorrow at 12 pm!), and solidarity tickets – which help to support scholarships.

👀 Here are some of our featured events 👀

🎨 Coming up at Data Through Design 🎨

Now to April 6 Data Through Design Exhibition – Corpus: Bodies of Data. Come check out this year’s exhibit at BRIC House Gallery in Downtown Brooklyn.

March 30 at 2 pm EDTData Through Design 2025 Artist Panel. Meet the artists behind this year’s exhibition!

March 30 at 4 pm EDTData Vandals: Guerrilla Data Lab. After the Artist Panel, join Data Vandals’ Jen Ray and Jason Forrest for a hands-on mini-workshop to craft data posters with markers!

Hope to see you soon! 💗

Community Resources 📚

Yesterday, during our Open Data Week morning virtual coffee (sign up for tomorrow’s here!), Kathleen Steed shared some great resources with us, which we’ve listed below. Thank you, Kathleen!

Additional Resources:

This Week in NYC Civic Tech 🗽

This Week in Gov Watch 🏛️

Jobs Alert and Announcements 💼

Upcoming Events 📅

Note: All times are listed in EDT

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