Tag: open source
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An Early Test of The Adams Administration’s Values and Tech Prowess
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on April 11, 2022 In 2019, New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly in favor of establishing a Civic Engagement Commission that would modernize how the city and its residents worked together to identify and solve problems at the most local levels. That commission hasn’t been earning itself many headlines, but the…
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Who is NYC Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser and Will He Deliver What’s Desperately Needed?
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on January 24, 2022 The de Blasio administration acknowledged that New York City desperately needs a Digital Service Organization (DSO) when it announced less than a month before the mayor left office that it wants to hire people for a new “NYC Digital Services” unit that would apply best practices in…
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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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“What is WeGovNYC?”, presented online for NYC Open Data Week 2021
A presentation on the progress of WeGovNYC’s Databook, an open government solution that combines a data normalization pipeline with a custom interface to deliver the public a data-driven understanding of NYC’s government.