How can designers, hackers and business work with government to make it more innovative? To put their mouth where our money is? We’re co-sponsoring OpenGov Camp NYC, an unconference to bring together the brightest minds to tackle the issues that we citizens face in our day to day lives. We love unconferences. What better way [...]
It’s getting warmer in NYC and the office is bustling with activity. We’re happy to have brought on a hacker to help us with our technical projects, as well as two Spring interns. We’re having exciting times here at Digital Democracy. Let us know if there’s anyone that you know who can help us make [...]
Liz Hodes represented Digital Democracy today while testifying to the New York City Council Technology Committee on Open Data. Introduction 029-2010, seeking to establish open data standards for all city agencies. Int. 029-2010 (formerly Intro. 991-2009) aims to increase government transparency and facilitate easier access to public data. Beyond the ‘good government’ benefits of this [...]
What does real-time mapping with NYC school kids look like? On Saturday, Digital Democracy was invited to work with 120 young people from all 5 boroughs as part of the Department of Education’s “Future Now” program. Having gone through the system myself, I jumped at the chance to help them innovate. While technology access is [...]
Today we had the pleasure of hosting five journalists from Indonesia at the Digital Democracy office. Although none of us on staff speak Indonesian and none of their English was particularly strong, we managed to communicate through 2 translators who had a portable translator toolkit that connected the group via wired headsets. While it looked [...]
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with Digital Democracy as we turned one year old. Over 200 people came to eat, drink, and be merry at the Open Planning Project’s gorgeous penthouse & rooftop in Soho, NYC for a party highlighting young change-makers in NYC. Even more tuned in to watch LIVE [...]
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