Urbanism Case Study Roundtable: The Urban Tech Shift – Lessons from New York and London

Neil Kleiman, Director of NYU Wagner Innovation Labs, explained how cities can attract entrepreneurs, start-ups, and technology to drive economic development in his talk at START-UP CITY: MIAMI.

NYU Wagner Professors Convene at 10 Downing Street on Technology & Government

NYU Wagner visiting professor Beth Noveck and clinical professor Shankar Prasad were among the distinguished guests at 10 Downing Street on Nov. 9 for the start of a two-day conversation on the future of democracy and the impact of technology.  Read our news story here.  

For more information, visit http://openinggovernment.org or follow @openinggov #openinggov #opengov

View the conversations on Storify.

From our friends over at Code for America.

We’ve recently partnered with CfA along with a number of other organizations to create Code for Change, a pipeline initiative to address civic organizations’ greatest technology challenges by matching them with talented coders, designers, data scientists, and other innovators. To learn more about Code for Change, our partners and how you can get involved, check out the NYU Wagner Innovations Lab and Applications for Good websites.

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viewfromthebalcony: My personal favorite: “We’re a “Peace Corps for Geeks,” and you’re a geek with a giant heart.”

NYU Wagner Visting Professor Beth Noveck will be giving her first TEDTalk at TEDGlobal 2012. Her talk will be during Session 9: The Upside of Transparency, Thursday, June 28, 2012, 2:15pm-4:00pm (Edinburgh, BST/GMT+1). 

Visiting Professor Beth Simone Noveck served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). To learn more about Prof. Noveck, check out her faculty bio, publications and projects here. To see the full TEDGlobal 2012 schedule and list of speakers, click here.

NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management graduate research assistant, Chris Whong, was one of the developers.

The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management today released their newest publication, Getting Started with Open Data: A Guide for Transportation Agencies. 

Here’s what you need to know:

• This guide is intended to result in streamlined use of transportation services and promote a productive dialogue between agencies and their constituents.
• It is being released as a living document, intended for input from both transportation data owners and users, to result in the most complete open transportation data guide possible.

For more information, head to the NYU Rudin blog.

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

This week, the NYU Wagner team visited New York’s Social Media Week to check out some of the latest trends and innovations in social media. Here are some photos from events we attended. A member of our faculty, Shankar Prasad, also joined a democracy and technology panel earlier this week. Mr. Youth hosted an event about the college journey and social media. We also attended an event hosted at Reuters HQ in Times Square where Alec Ross, senior adviser on innovation for Secretary of State Hilary Clinton gave the keynote address. After Ross spoke, Obama’s digital team for his reelection campaign gave us an insider’s look at their strategies and technology.

To learn more, follow:

#smwnyc #mrysmw #smwlikeable #smwreuters

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