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