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Mapping for Equity: 2025 in Review
In 2025, Mapping for Equity had a big year. We hosted fourteen sessions across all five boroughs, with nine hands-on field mapping events in parks and five data entry workshops that turned observations into open, reusable public data.
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Stop Super Speeders Hackathon
DSSG-NYC, BetaNYC, Transportation-Alt in collaboration with Families for Safe Streets proudly present the Stop Super Speeders Hackathon: prototype a dashboard that reads, manages, and alerts about super speeders throughout NY state
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NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus
The NYC PIT Pop-Up (aka NYC Public Interest Tech Pop-Up) is a temporary, immersive, pop-up event where technology, art, science, and community converge. This shared space for co-creation and imagination will showcase how technology can be designed to serve justice, equity, and community empowerment.
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Call for Proposals: Open Data Week 2025
We are thrilled to announce the call for proposals for Open Data Week 2025! Scheduled to take place from March 22 to 30 online and at venues across New York City, next year’s festival promises to be an exciting showcase of cutting-edge technologies, innovative ideas, and community-driven projects powered by NYC Open Data. BetaNYC and…
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NYC Open Data Week 2024 Recap
Fostering data literacy. Promoting transparency. Informed community decision and policy-making. Driving innovation. Enhancing civic participation. These are just some reasons we host NYC Open Data Week every year, and 2024 was no different! In March, the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), BetaNYC, and Data Through Design came together…
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NYC Open Data Week 2023 Recap
In March, we hosted the seventh annual NYC Open Data Week festival with the NYC Open Data Team at the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) and Data Through Design.
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Introducing the BetaNYC Civic Innovation Fellows Class of 2023!
Welcome to our newest Civic Innovation Fellows! The class of 2022-2023 is our ninth unique cohort.
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Welcome to Our Civic Innovation Lab Associates!
We are pleased to introduce Emily Lopez, Eva Decker, HaoChe Hung, and Ziqi Wang. We hope you have as much learning about them as we did!
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2022 Civic Innovation Fellows NYC Open Data Projects
Each year, BetaNYC invites a cohort of CUNY Service Corps students to train and work with our team in our Civic Innovation Lab. This year students joined us during their second semester and worked with us 1-2 days a week from March through May. We are so pleased with this cohort’s energy and enthusiasm. They…
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Looking Back at the NYC Peoples’ Tech Assemblies 2021
Introduction This is a hefty update on the NYC Peoples’ Tech Assemblies and our efforts to update the People’s Roadmap to a Digital New York City. Index: About the People’s Roadmap Insights & Statistics Final Words Next Steps and Thank You Glossary The BetaNYC team is in awe of how quickly 2021 zipped by! For…
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School of Data and Open Data Week 2022 – Call for Proposals is open!
Do you love open data and New York City? This post is for YOU. Open Data Week will take place this year from March 5 to 13, 2022. We are building the program and looking for people to share their work, expertise, and enthusiasm for open data in NYC. Submit your ideas and help us…
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NYC Open Data Training – Manhattan
Manhattan – Council Districts 4 & 5: Feb 12 @ Webster Library RSVP at http://opendata-12feb.eventbrite.com/
