NYCEDC has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 17th Annual Webby Awards in the Government Category!
We are thrilled! Congrats to NYC Service for their nomination and NYC Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting for being named an honoree as well. Check out our website at NYCEDC.com.
The Mayor’s Geek Squad
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/mayor-bloombergs-geek-squad.html
Source: theyardblog
Announcing NYC BigApps 2013
New York City is going big with the launch of NYC BigApps 2013, the fourth annual BigApps competition to promote government transparency and innovative new technologies, at tonight’s New York Tech Meetup event. Powered by CollabFinder, this year’s competition, which challenges mobile and web developers to create cool, free apps for New Yorkers, has upped the ante, offering big prizes for apps that solve BigIssues specific to NYC using a bigger pool of data than ever before.
This year, in conjunction with NYC DoITT, and in partnership with BMW iVentures and eBay, Inc., we are excited to make the following announcements:
- We’re challenging developers to create apps that solve BigIssues facing New Yorkers in four specific areas: Jobs and Workforce Mobility; Healthy Living; Lifelong Learning; and Cleanweb: Energy, Environment and Resilience.
- This year’s cash awards total $150,000. The Grand Prize winner for NYC BigApps 2013 is eligible to win up to $60,000!
- We’re expanding our eligible data resource base. Applicants can pick at least one data set from NYC Open Data or other approved federal, state, city and private data sets and APIs; generate at least one new, original data set through the app; or mix and match any of these approaches.
We’re hosting an all weekend BigApps Expo and Hackathon on April 6-7 at eBay to help jumpstart developer efforts. Come join fellow developers, designers, hackers and entrepreneurs in a creative and collaborative space to build awesome apps to enter into the competition.
Our panel of judges features renowned experts in the field. Don’t miss the chance for once in a lifetime exposure to this prestigious group of judges:
- Dawn Barber, Co-founder, New York Tech Meetup
- John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks
- Arianna Huffington, Chair, President, and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group
- Lawrence Lenihan, Founder, CEO, and Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
- Ann Li, Managing Director, Center for Economic Transformation, NYCEDC
- Rahul Merchant, Commissioner, NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
- Ulrich Quay, Managing Director, BMW iVentures
- Danny Schultz, Co-founder & Managing Director, DFJ Gotham Ventures
- David Tisch, Managing Partner, BoxGroup
- Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
NYC BigApps 2013 is just one more example of the City’s ongoing efforts to empower NYC’s amazing developers and entrepreneurs by awarding generous cash prizes; offering invaluable startup support, such as the BigApps Founders Network; and granting participants complete IP ownership of their apps.
Submissions for NYC BigApps 2013 are due by 5:00 PM EST on June 7, 2013 – so start coding! Find out more at www.nycbigapps.com.
Agreement to Sell 2 City-Owned Buildings to Reduce Govt Office Space
Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced an agreement to sell 2 City-owned buildings for nearly $250 million as part of the Administration’s plan to reduce City government office space by 1.2 million square feet by 2014. The Mayor first announced the intention to sell the properties of 49-51 Chambers and 346 Broadway in his State of the City address and it represents a major step to increase efficiency by eliminating underused office space and relocating employees to office environments that better serve the City’s needs.
The City will work with Peebles Corporation who purchased 346 Broadway to convert 16,000 square feet of the space into a digital arts and media space dedicated to public use. The properties will be redeveloped as a mix of hotel, residential and community uses and is anticipated to bring in excess of $500 million in private investment as well as more than 550 construction jobs and 60 permanent jobs.
For more, visit nyc.gov.
Source: nycgov
NYC BigApps Is Coming Soon
Move over Samsung – The Next Big Thing is almost here. We are working with CollabFinder to bring the biggest, boldest, and best BigApps ever! While we can’t divulge our secrets yet, yesterday we gave a sneak peek at Social Media Week event: “We Built this City: The State of Civic Technology, with Code for America and IDEO.”
Entering its fourth year, the NYC BigApps competition promotes government transparency and innovative new technologies by challenging mobile and web developers to create cool, free apps for New Yorkers using City data.
Get involved: Sign up now at www.nycbigapps.com to be the first to know about any updates on New York City’s ultimate open data software challenge. Trust us – you don’t want to miss a thing.
Here’s a photo of us offering financial assistance and business restoration services at the NYC Restoration Center in Far Rockaway, Queens over the weekend. Stop by at any of the NYC Restoration Centers in the Sandy-affected areas for these and many other services, and visit nycedc.com/backtobusiness for comprehensive business recovery resources including emergency loans, free temporary workspace, and employee retention and assistance programs.
Photo credit: Grace Cheung/NYCEDC
Engage NYC 2012: Digital Media in Government
Following the success of Engage NYC 2011, NYC Digital hosted the second annual Engage NYC: Digital Media in Government summit on October 19, 2012 at Google’s Headquarters in New York. Nearly 200 social media, communications and press staff from across city government attended the event, featuring presentations from external social media partners, a panel on digital communications, an update on the State of the Digital City, as well as an awards ceremony recognizing agencies’ outstanding work in digital media.
The morning began with welcome remarks from William Floyd of Google and the City’s Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Haot. A surprise guest keynote David Karp, founder and CEO of New York social media startup, Tumblr, gave an inspiring talk on New York City’s digital presence and the vital role digital media has in our culture today.
Source: nycdigital
The Internship: NYC Digital
If you’re enrolled in college or graduate school in New York City and have a keen interest in social media and digital communications for city government, apply for NYC Digital’s Fall Internship position. This is your opportunity to help execute on New York City’s digital initiatives.
Tory Burch blog recently profiled Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot and summer intern Luis Daniel Palacios. See Rachel’s advice for interns and what Luis enjoyed the most from his summer internship.
Source: nycdigital
“The Bloomberg Administration is one of the most pro-development governments in city history.”
NYCEDC tops Architect Newspaper’s list of Agencies of Change, whose projects have had the most impact on development in New York City.
Source: archpaper.com
Mayor Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot today unveiled the 2012 Digital Roadmap, an update to the 2011 roadmap, a comprehensive plan outlining NYC’s digital successes and a look ahead to new initiatives to spur the development of the local tech and digital sector.
With 80 percent of its objectives complete, New York City’s Digital Roadmap: Progress and Innovation demonstrates the strides the City has made to date, driven by a vibrant technology industry, a strong social media presence, infrastructure improvements and historic investments in education. Highlights from the year are shown in the infographics above.
Source: on.nyc.gov
