Our upcoming event “State of the Digital City: Government 2.0 and its Impact on Policymaking” will take place both at NYU Wagner and online. To join the conversation, follow the hashtag #NYUWgov20 and of course, all of our events can be found at #NYUWevents on Twitter. Then panel held on Wednesday, March 21, 7:15PM EST will feature both esteemed experts and practitioners.

Panelists:

• NYC Council Member Gale Brewer, Founding Chair of the Committee on Technology in Government

• John Kaehny, Executive Director and Founding Board Member, Reinvent Albany

• Anthony Townsend, Research Director, Institute for the Future, and NYU Adjunct Assistant Professor

Moderator: NYU Adjunct Associate Professor and Yourlist.org Founder Shankar Prasad

In 2011, Mayor Bloomberg’s office rolled out its Road Map for the Digital City, a vanguard municipal plan for increasing avenues for digital engagement, government transparency, and data accessibility for New York City residents and businesses. One year later, the City boasts hundreds of recently released data sets, dozens of apps developed through city-supported hackathons and competitions, more than 200 social media engagement channels, and GovFresh’s 2011 City of the Year award for its leadership in technology-supported democracy. Clearly, much is happening on the web—but what is the impact on the ground? How have the City’s digital initiatives affected public service? Who is engaging? And what changes will government 3.0 bring?

Join the Wagner Policy Alliance for a panel discussion and reception with esteemed experts and practitioners.

Panelists:

• NYC Council Member Gale Brewer, Founding Chair of the Committee on Technology in Government
• Noel Hidalgo, Director of Engagement Technologies, World Economic Forum
• Anthony Townsend, Research Director, Institute for the Future, and NYU Adjunct Assistant Professor

Moderator: NYU Adjunct Associate Professor and Yourlist.org Founder Shankar Prasad

Sponsored by NYU Wagner’s Urban Planning Student Association and NYU Law School’s Law and Government Society

When: 3/21/2012 7:15pm-9:00pm
Location: The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Fl.
295 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012-9604  map

nycedc: NYCEDC’s new Entrepreneur at Large Steve Rosenbaum talks about why New York City is the ideal place for tech startups:

New York startups, this is our time. New York is ready to be the center of the technology universe. In the past three years we’ve grown an active and fast moving seed-stage…

nycedc:

Thinking of entering NYC BigApps 3.0? We’d love to see you at the first NYC BigApps hackathon the weekend of November 11th. Sign up before it fills up!

nycedc:

Performance wear is an example of an applied sciences innovation. Watch our video for more: “What is Applied Sciences?” Learn about Mayor Bloomberg’s citywide initiative to build or expand a state-of-the-art applied sciences and engineering campus in the five boroughs—and what that could mean for our economy.

fastcompany:

Celliant claims their performance wear contain tech that helps increase circulation and convert light into energy. Sound crazy—and maybe it is—but pretty soon “smart textiles” are going to be everywhere.

(via nycdigital)

nycedc:

WNYC’s blog summed up our Applied Sciences NYC initiative, for which entries were due earlier today:

The deadline for universities to submit their bids to open a new engineering school in the city with the help of the Bloomberg administration is today.

Seth Pinsky, the president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, described the project this way: “We really believe this is what we like to describe as an Erie Canal moment, a time where we are faced with the ability to make an investment and that investment can lock in a competitive advantage for years to come, just like the Erie Canal did in the 1820s and 30s.”

Listen to the audio above, view the full article on WNYC, and find out more about Applied Sciences NYC on NYCEDC’s website.