Jan 28, 2015
21st Century City: The Social Impact of Data & Technology
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
Agenda
6:15 – 6:45 Code for America
6:45 – 7:15 Panel: 21st Century City
7:15 – 7:45 GovLab @NYU
7:45 – 8:00 Q + A
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
Curated by Noel Hidalgo @noneck
Program Manager @codeforamerica
we are civic hackers.
we are building a civic hacking practice by the people, for the people, for the 21st Century...
we build safe spaces for dialogue.we are distributed & organized.
in nyc, we are BetaNYC.
five pillars of a citizen’s digital city
#. Accessible Infrastructure#. Education & Lifelong Learning #. Industry, Employment, & Economic Mobility#. Effective & Open Government#. Wise and Smarter Communities
#. Tidepools / Red Hook’s Mesh Network#. Kansas City’s CfA Fellows #. NYCEDC / NYC BigApps#. NYC’s CfA Fellows#. Pediacities
NYC BigApps is an annual open data software competition that incentivizes innovative, free mobile + web apps for New Yorkers while improving City transparency + access
Nearly 25 percent of New Yorkers live in a household where no one owns a computer.
~78% of New Yorkers own a smartphone
Prizes$150,000 in prizes. Win up to $60,000.
NYC BigApps 2013 Grand Prize - $35,000Best Jobs +
Economic
Mobility Apps 1ST PRIZE: $25,0002ND PRIZE: $15,0003RD PRIZE: $10,000
Best Cleanweb
App
$20,000
Best Healthy
Living App
$20,000
Best Lifelong
Learning App
$20,000
Best
Wildcard
App
$5,000
Plus many other in-kind prizes and membership in the Founders' Network
Exciting, New 2013 FeaturesBigApps 2013 was run accelerator-style, providing intensive resources and feedback to teams creating technologies that solve major City problems
Solve NYC’s most pressing BigIssues
Win Big Prizes + join the exclusive
Founder’s Network
Find amazing partners + receive feedback on
CollabFinder
Transform newly released
Public + Private Data
Attend top open innovation
Events
Access top advisors, investors + city
officials
JEM Strategic Partners With the help of our strategic partners, BigApps 2013 was able to bring together the public, private and non-profit sector.
Winners at the JEM Hackathon at New Work City April 20-21, 2013
JEM Events
JEM Meetup at Robinhood headquarters – April 10, 2013
Over the 2.5 month competition, BigApps held 13+ events, including an evening meetup and weekend hackathon for Jobs and Economic Mobility
JEM winning teamsIn addition to the cash prize, winning JEM teams can receive up to $20,000 in following-on funding + access to the BigApps Founder’s Network.
Know Your CityExplore With Data!
80,000NYC Eighth Graders
Choose from400 Public High Schools to apply to
API
Six new apps and websites to help NYC students and parents choose schools.
nycdoe.pediacities.com
Tools for Smart Communities provide feedback mechanisms.
1.High quality,
curated data that addresses real needs.
2.Validation from
local experts.
3.Continuous
feedback loop.
Data for Smart Communities
Building solutions for Smarter Communities.
Get in contact to discuss what kind of APIs your community needs.
[email protected]@npstorey @PediaCities
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
Andrew Raseij, Moderator
Founder, Personal Democracy Media and Chairman, NY Tech Meetup
Gale Brewer
Manhattan Borough President
Mark Headd
Chief Data Officer, City of Philadelphia
Carole Post
EVP, New York Law School and Fmr. Commissioner, DoITT
Andrew Nicklin
Fmr. Director of R&D, DoITT
Panel
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
Presented by Shankar Prasad @ProfSPrasad
Co-Founder @thegovlab
#InnovateNYC #TalkingTransition
Thank You!