It was standing room only at our kick-off NYC BigApps 2013 Expo and Hackathon at eBay this weekend! Check out more photos in our Flickr album, and explore the NYC BigApps projects already underway.
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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.
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.
Reinvent Green Hackathon
NYC developers, interested in creating apps that encourage a greener NYC? Apply for the Reinvent Green Hackathon! Applications are due this Sunday, June 17th.
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The City of New York is excited to announce Reinvent Green, the City’s first sustainability hackathon. Taking place at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn from June 30-July 1, the hackathon aims to rally and incentivize the City’s best technology talent to create digital tools and apps that encourage a greener, greater New York. Sign up for Reinvent Green by clicking here.
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NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success
Join us tonight at The Space, Inc. at Chelsea Market for NYCEDC and NYC DoITT’s Internet Week panel!
NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success
When: Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: The Space, Inc. at Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, 6th Fl., New York
NYC BigApps, in addition to other groundbreaking City-sponsored initiatives, is becoming a catalyst for startups and helping spur incredible growth in entrepreneurship across the City—from Chelsea to Brooklyn, and soon, Roosevelt Island. Join several BigApps winners, judges, City officials, and City-based technology experts to hear how BigApps helps spawn new start-ups and foster the open data movement in New York—and find out what is in store for NYC’s emerging culture of innovation.
Rachel Sterne, New York City’s Chief Digital Officer, will introduce the panel:
- Kristy Sundjaja, Senior Director, Head of Industry Transformation, NYCEDC (moderator)
- Joel Natividad, Co-Founder, Ontodia
- Andrew Rasiej, Chairman, New York Tech Meetup
- Robert Richardson, Director of Strategic Technology Development, NYC DoITT
- Dan Robinson, Head of Product, Roadify
- Steve Rowe, Chief Revenue Officer, MyCityWay
Internet Week NY: May 14-21
We’re getting excited for Internet Week NY, coming up later this month, which celebrates the ever-changing digital landscape in New York through almost 200 citywide networking events, meetups, panels, conferences, hack days, and more. NYCEDC is hosting the following Internet Week panel along with NYC DoITT, focusing on the annual NYC BigApps competition and how it relates to the City’s overall efforts to promote innovation and open government. We hope you’ll join us! Please RSVP here and find more information below.
NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success
When: Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: The Space, Inc. at Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, 6th Fl., New York
Rachel Sterne, New York City’s Chief Digital Officer, will introduce the panel:
- Kristy Sundjaja, Senior Director, Head of Industry Transformation, NYCEDC (moderator)
- Joel Natividad, Co-Founder, Ontodia
- Andrew Rasiej, Chairman, New York Tech Meetup
- Robert Richardson, Director of Strategic Technology Development, NYC DoITT
- Dan Robinson, Head of Product, Roadify
- Steve Rowe, Chief Revenue Officer, MyCityWay
NYC BigApps, in addition to other groundbreaking City-sponsored initiatives, is becoming a catalyst for startups and helping spur incredible growth in entrepreneurship across the City—from Chelsea to Brooklyn, and soon, Roosevelt Island. Join several BigApps winners, judges, City officials, and City-based technology experts to hear how BigApps helps spawn new start-ups and foster the open data movement in New York—and find out what is in store for NYC’s emerging culture of innovation.
For more Open Data events at Internet Week, don’t miss these panels hosted by NYC DoITT:
- NYC Open Data: Unlock It!
When: Wednesday May 16, 1:00 to 1:45pm
Where: 82 Mercer Street, New York
This is a brief session to introduce the policies and technical standards related to opening up NYC government data. Note: You will need an Internet Week HQ Pass to attend this session. - Open Data Policy Hack Day
When: Saturday May 19, 11:00am to 4:00pm
Where: Pivotal Labs, 841 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York
Join NYC DoITT’s team from the Office of Strategic Technology Development and the open government community – policymakers, technologists, civic hackers, app developers, academics, journalists and data enthusiasts – for an engaging half-day of discussions, drafting, planning and hacking.
Infographic: NYC BigApps Winners and Highlights
NYC BigApps Awards: Free Tickets!
We’re extending the deadline to Monday! Submit your dataset suggestions for NYC Open Data to receive up to two free tickets to the NYC BigApps Awards next Tuesday night, where the Mayor will announce the winners of NYC BigApps 3.0!
We’re counting down the seconds until the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 17th, where we’ll announce the winners of Mayor Bloomberg’s annual challenge to developers to create innovative apps using official City data to serve NYC residents, businesses, and visitors. This year,…
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NYC BigApps: Free Tickets!
We’re counting down the seconds until the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 17th, where we’ll announce the winners of Mayor Bloomberg’s annual challenge to developers to create innovative apps using official City data to serve NYC residents, businesses, and visitors. This year, we received a record-breaking ~100 eligible software apps from developers, competing for $50,000 in cash and other prizes.
Want to see what the buzz is all about? You too can join the awards ceremony and join in the BigApps fun. We’re giving out tickets via our #NYCBigAppsTix giveaway, where you’ll have a chance to receive tickets to the show the evening of Tuesday, April 17th in Chelsea. Along with the tech, investor and NYC government community, share in drinks and hors d’oeuvres and be part of the excitement as the Mayor hands out prizes for the best apps, including two Popular Choice awards.
NYCEDC and the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication (DoITT) have worked with more than 60 City agencies, Commissions, and Business Improvement Districts to make more than 230 new datasets available on NYC Open Data portal at www.nyc.gov/data for a total of nearly 750 available data sets. And you can help us brainstorm more!
Here’s how it works:
Follow us and tweet @NYCEDC with your original, new and useful dataset idea. You can check to see if the dataset already exists by searching www.nyc.gov/data. Please also see terms of use here.
Be sure to include hashtag #NYCBigAppsTix to ensure that your submission is counted. Here’s a prompt to get you started: Hey @NYCEDC, I want #NYCBigAppsTix! My dataset idea is:
The first 50 people to submit dataset ideas that are responsive to this announcement will each receive up to two (2) tickets to attend the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony (we’ll direct-message you and ask you to provide additional contact information). If you are one of these first 50 people, your name and dataset ideas may also be published on NYCEDC’s blog.
The period for submitting your dataset ideas will run from Wednesday, April 11th at 12:00 PM through Friday, April 13th at 12:00 PM Monday, April 16th at 9:00 AM. The first 50 people who submit applicable dataset ideas will be notified no later than Monday, April 16th at Noon regarding their tickets to attend the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony.
NYC BigApps 3.0 continues New York City’s ongoing engagement with the software developer community to improve the City, building on the first two annual BigApps competitions through new data, prizes, and resources. Learn more at www.nycbigapps.com.
NYC BigApps also furthers New York City’s open data efforts. As part of the Citywide Open Data Legislation, Local Law 11 of 2012, DoITT is currently developing technical standards and guidelines for City agencies. Learn more about how you can help NYC government unlock its data.
Internet Week Panel on NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success
Help NYCEDC and NYC DoITT get to Internet Week! Vote for our panel featuring past and current winners of the NYC BigApps competition, which challenges developers to collaborate, create useful apps with City data, and build successful new businesses from their submissions—while promoting open government.
