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THE DIGITAL CITY Mayor Bloomberg’s Plan to Realize NYC’s Tech Potential
MAYOR BLOOMBERG Entrepreneur, Technologist, Innovator
THE MAYOR’S OFFICE OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT
Streamlining communications and supporting industry
HOW CAN WE MAKE NYC A PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION?
THE ROADMAP
ACCESS: BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
• NYC Connected Learning has served 72 schools, 61 tech centers and over 15,000 low-income students • Choices: Verizon FiOS available in every home by the end of 2014 • Wi-Fi: hotspots in 40 parks and every branch of every library
EDUCATION: LEARN AND EMPOWER
• iZone: Tech-powered teaching • Cornell-Technion Applied Sciences NYC: A Game-changer • NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress: Building the future • Academy for Software Engineering: Equipping high schoolers
OPEN GOVERNMENT: INNOVATION & TRANSPARENCY
• More than 900 API-enabled public data sets to unlock innovation • Data visualizations Tumblr shows what’s possible • NYC Big Apps competition rewards creativity
OPEN GOVERNMENT: SAVING LIVES
Open Data helped us scale service delivery during Hurricane Irene
Before
OPEN GOVERNMENT Partners building maps from City information served over 15 times as
many nearby residents and workers
After
ENGAGEMENT: THE NUMBERS
NYC.gov • 2.6M unique visitors • 1M pages
Social Media
• 1.8M fans, followers, app users and subscribers • 250+ channels
ENGAGEMENT: @NYCGOV GOES SOCIAL
One-stop shops on Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr and Twitter
ENGAGEMENT: WHY DO YOU #LOVENYC?
1,900 photos that show NYC through the eyes of New Yorkers
ENGAGEMENT: MEET THE APPS!
ENGAGEMENT: REINVENTING NYC.GOV
Over 100 participants, 2,000 manhours, 10 prototypes = 1 hackathon weekend
ENGAGEMENT: REINVENT NYC.GOV WINNER
Search-centric, data-driven, welcoming and intuitive
INDUSTRY: BECOMING THE DIGITAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
“There’s never been a better time for tech in NYC”
INDUSTRY: THE NEW .NYC TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN
A web address for the greatest city on earth, coming 2013
www.yournamehere.nyc
INDUSTRY: INCREASING DIVERSITY
A call to action for tech companies, from over 100,000 youth