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7:05 am on January 13, 2014 · broadband (122), dc (3), fcc (92), infrastructure (23), legal hackers (13), mapping (5), ntia (34), NYCEDC (3), oti (20)

VIDEO: DC Legal Hackers Broadband Infrastructure Mapping #legalhack #broadband

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On Wednesday January 8, 2014 DC Legal Hackers hosted #LegalHack Broadband Infrastructure, a meetup to discuss the efforts of city, state, and federal governments to create and maintain maps of broadband infrastructure to improve awareness, choice, and competition in the broadband market. Speakers included Virginia Maloney, Senior Project Manager, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC); Anne Neville, Director, State Broadband Initiative, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA); Mike Byrne, Geographic Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC); Greta Byrum, Senior Field Analyst, Open Technology Institute (OTI). Moderator was Julia Pulidindi, Senior Associate, The National League of Cities. The event was webcast live by the Internet Society North America Bureau, video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/R7lhMTuGl4s
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/iNNBJLjaRfGH/
Twitter: #legalhack | #broadband

5:42 am on May 17, 2013 · design (7), digg (1), etsy (2), foursquare (1), hackathon (18), nyc bigapps (2), NYCEDC (3), webcast (110)

VIDEO: NYC BigApps + Huge App Design Night at Foursquare #NYCBigApps

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NYC Big Apps

NYC Big AppsOn Friday May 15 2013 the Internet Society’s New York Chapter webcast the NYC BigApps + Huge App Design Night at Foursquare‘s offices in NYC. Contestants have until June 7 2103 to submit their apps to potentially win up to $50,000 in prizes. At this event, after an introduction from the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), some of the City’s top digital talent – including reps from Etsy, Huge, Fifty Three, New York Times, Digg, and Foursquare itself – gave helpful design insights to the assembled hopefuls. Livestream archive is here or below.

2:53 pm on July 6, 2011 · BigApps (3), nyc (131), NYCEDC (3), opengov (4)

#NYCBigApps Ideas Challenge – $5k in prizes! #nyc #opengov @nycbigapps

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BigApps Ideas

BigApps Ideas New York City is kickstarting the third edition of its BigApps competition to design mobile applications based on government data by polling the public for a wishlist. The poll uses the ChallengePost platform, and is sponsored by BMW. $5,000 in prizes for best ideas will be awarded by a panel of judges that includes Clay Shirky.

Submissions are open until July 28

* press release