Today, July 13th 2009, is the first day of the NYC Department of Buildings new online development challenge policy -
“The Department has formalized a new 45-day formal development challenge process. This gives the public a greater voice in the development process and provides developers further clarity about when and how a project can move forward. [...]
Entries from July 2009
NYC Buildings Online Challenge
July 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: NYC
NYC Open Data
July 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
NYC Council’s Technology in Government Committee held a public hearing to discuss Int. 991-2009, a bill sponsored by Gale Brewer mandating that NYC government release all city data online. Full video coverage shows that the administration is less than supportive of this legislation.
As Joly MacFie put it:
“… Bloomberg’s announcement upstages a much wider proposal by [...]
Tags: General
NYC Big Apps Competition
July 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
On Monday morning Mayor Bloomberg made a Skype appearance at #PDF09, announcing that NYC would be holding a “Big Apps Competition” in the spirit of DC’s Apps for Democracy. The New York Future Initiative did a nice piece on this, as did the NYTimes City Room blog.
Garnering less publicity, the NYCEDC has issued an RFP [...]
Tags: General