Category: Blog

OpenShift meets #BetaNYC, a #CfABrigade for NYC.

Tonight, #BetaNYC was honored to have OpenShift as a sponsor and have two of their best evangelists show us how to make better civic apps. Now, we are ready to build scalable apps and hand them off to others. Thank you Red Hat’s Fotios Lindiakos and Ryan Jarvinen!  PS – It was great to have Ryan, an OpenOakland member, […]

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! RSVP HERE 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 […]

Five characteristics of an open source city: 1. Fostering a culture of citizen participation 2. Having an effective open government policy 3. Having an effective open data initiative 4. Promoting open source user groups and conferences 5. Being a hub for innovation and open source businesses Five characteristics of an open source city | opensource.com

New York City Comptroller John Liu is about to do something we need to see more often in government. This week, his office is open sourcing the code behind Checkbook NYC, the citywide financial transparency site—but the open-sourcing itself is not what I’m referring to. After all, lots of governments open source code these days. […]

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 […]

NYC GOV: Cities Around the World Share Stories of Digital Innovation

NYC GOV: Cities Around the World Share Stories of Digital Innovation NYC.gov is gathering the tribes! nycgov: On May 20th, NYC Digital and the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs convened the first Digital Cities Symposium in New York City. The Symposium, featuring 15 cities from around the world, aimed to create a global forum for […]