Category: Gotham Gazette
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De Blasio Administration Announces Long-Sought ‘NYC Digital Service’ Just Days Before Adams Takes Over
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on December 15, 2021 New York City’s civic technology community has for many years been calling on city government to establish a Digital Service Organization (DSO). DSOs are technology groups organized within government agenies that use open source software to create their own technology solutions instead of buying proprietary services…
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New Yorkers Must Break Free From Our Stockholm Syndrome
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on June 16, 2020 When it became clear to Jan-Erik Olsson that he wouldn’t be able to flee the bank he was attempting to rob, he decided to take hostages. For six days in August of 1973, the four hostages and their captor got to know each other, and…
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Community WiFi is Already Here, Now It’s Time to Expand It
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on September 13, 2019 While politicians and industry focus on 5G wireless, the democratization of more common wireless technology has quietly made community-run wifi networks faster, better and cheaper than cable. Look for wifi anywhere in New York City and you’ll likely find dozens of locked networks, each of…
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5 Solutions the Public Advocate Should Deliver for New York City
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on May 8, 2019 The New York City Public Advocate is a poorly defined position that, over its 30 years of existence, has often been used to advance the political interests and status of career politicians. I’m running for Public Advocate because I want to do something very different…