Join us Saturday, 3 March, for NYC's best #opendata conference —NYC School of Data — a community technology conference that demystifies complex ideas and fosters local civic engagement.
This year’s conversations will focus on four key areas: digital literacy & privacy, smart & wise cities, effective & open government, and civic & government technology.
Come spend the day learning or working on a civic project in our #hackhall!
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Sessions include:
* Discriminnovation & the future of NYC's Open Algorithm Law with Former City Council Member Jimmy Vacca, NYCLU, and Legal Aid Society
* A discussion on the future of Civic Service Design with NYC Opportunity
* The future of open source & digital services with NYC Planning
* Civic Engagement in NYC: The landscape & where we're headed with Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
* Reducing the anxiety of NYC middle school applications through open data & peer networks
* Libraries: your partner in safeguarding privacy with METRO & the City’s library systems
* Oversight + mapping = advocating for a healthy internet at the local level hosted by Mozilla Foundation
Featured HackHall Projects, organizations, and workshops:
* Truth in Broadband User Testing with The Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (NYC CTO), workshop / user testing
* BetaNYC's Intro to BoardStat & Civic Data Journeys, a workshop
* NYC DOITT GIS / mapping NYC 311 with open source tools developed by the city, a workshop
* Hacking a Smart City Together, a smart city workshop using arduinos
* NYC Planning & future of PLUTO, workshop
* NYC Department of City Planning Labs
* NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications’ GIS department
* Sunlight Foundation & their Open Data Census
* StreetMix
* The Grid - the tool to measure pedestrian activity
* New York Public Library's "Connections" guide & data liberation into Street Lives
* The Refugee Libraries Project