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3:30 am on April 17, 2013 · bruce regal (1), doitt (4), gale brewer (18), joe plotkin (1), nyc (131), nyc wireless (1), wifi (7)

VIDEO: Internet Everywhere: The Role & Policy Implications of Public Wi-Fi in NYC #nycwifi

April 17, 2013 by isoc-ny

On Thursday 11 April 2013 the Federal Communications Bar Association (NY Chapter), New York Law School, eBay NYC, the New York Legal Hackers Meetup, the Cardozo Cyberlaw Society, and the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic presented Internet Everywhere: The Role & Policy Implications of Public Wi-Fi in NYC at eBay’s NYC office. This event followed Google’s program to provide free Wi-Fi to all of Chelsea, and the announcement just that day by NYC of a citywide pilot program to turn payphones into open Wi-Fi hotspots. Speakers included Council Member Gale Brewer, ISOC-NY Board member Joe Plotkin, NYC officials Deirdre Flynn and Bruce Regal, reps from the ACLU and Time Warner, and more. The moderator was Nilay Patel, managing editor of The Verge. Video is below,

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2woYaYk12V8
Download: audio
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/Al1mGSLDqOEu/
Twitter: #nycwifi

2:56 pm on March 22, 2012 · doitt (4), newgtlds (19), nyc (131)

.nyc contract hearing friday 3/23 @DoITT #newgtlds #nyc #dotnyc

March 22, 2012 by isoc-ny

A public hearing on NYC’s allocation of the .nyc contract to Neustar was held on Friday March 23 2012, in Brooklyn.

Information Technology and Telecommunications Public Hearing

Notice is hereby given that a Contract Public Hearing will be held on Friday, March 23, 2012 at DoITT, 2 MetroTech Center, 4th Floor, Brooklyn NY 11209, commencing at 2:00 P.M. on the following:

In the matter of a proposed contract between the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and Neustar located at 21575 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA 20166, to apply for, and if obtained, operate, administer, manage and market nyc. The term of the contract shall be for five (5) years with two (2) five (5) year renewal options at the City’s discretion. The contract is a Revenue contract, PIN: 85812P0001.

4/3 Nancy Scola In the dot-nyc land rush, unanswered questions about who will benefit as the city signs a $3.6 M contract (Capital New York)
3/23 Tom Lowenhaupt written testimony
3/22 Robert Pollard March 23: Last-minute hidden “Public Hearing” on .nyc top-level domain
3/22 Tom Lowenhaupt City Not Ready But Preceeding Anyhow
5/8/2010 ISOC-NY EVENT: dot nyc – How are we doing?
10/5/2009 City issues RFP for .nyc management
10/17/2008 NYC Council .nyc Public Hearing
5/21/2008 Connecting .nyc forum

5:50 am on March 11, 2012 · bloomberg (4), doitt (4), gale brewer (18), nyc (131), Open Data (12), open government (27)

NYC adopts open data law #nyc #opengov

March 11, 2012 by isoc-ny

NYC Council Member Gale A. Brewer has long campaigned for an Open Data statute for the City. Indeed her original public hearing was back in June 2009, when she first introduced draft legislation. Another public hearing was held in June 2010. The law has finally passed, and was signed into law by Mayor Bloomberg on March 7 2012.

The law has provisions such as:

City agencies until 2018 to get all their data online and searchable.
Data to be machine readable and available via an API.
DoITT to produce guidelines for City agencies by October 2012
Agencies to report what data sets they have by August 2013
Agencies to submit a compliance report before March 2014.
Data is to be made available in one central location at NYC.gov.
If agencies opt-out they must make public their reasons for doing so.
DoITT to consult with the public and open standards bodies to ensure usability.

Video of the signing ceremony

4:47 pm on January 24, 2011 · doitt (4), nyc (131)

Rachel Sterne named NYC’s first Chief Digital Officer #nyc

January 24, 2011 by isoc-ny

The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) announced the hiring of Rachel Sterne as the City’s first Chief Digital Officer. Sterne is tasked with helping to make NYC.gov more user-friendly, ensuring that agencies integrate social media opportunities and serving as an advocate for the digital media industry in New York City.

Sterne will work on a 90-day report detailing the City’s online strategies. She will look at various ways in which the City can enhance its digital footprint, streamline its existing social media mechanisms and explore public-private partnerships that the City could implement in the digital realm. Her report will go to MOME Commissioner Katherine Oliver and City Hall.

Sterne is a founder of startups GroundReport and Upward Strategy, both of which she will leave for the new post.