Register for NYC School of Data 2018

Join us on Saturday, 3 March 2018, for NYC School of Data — a community technology conference that demystifies complex ideas and fosters local civic engagement.

This community-driven conference is organized by BetaNYC – NYC’s Civic technology, data, and design community. Our conversations and workshops will empower you to improve our neighborhoods and our lives. The day is framed to celebrate NYC’s transformative open data law and International Open Data Day, while kicking off NYC’s second annual open data week.

This year’s conversations will focus on four key areas: digital literacy & privacy, smart & wise cities, effective & open government, and civic & government technology.

In addition to 12 exciting panels and workshops, all participants are welcomed to a #hackhall — a daylong open space for open source civic & government technology projects. In the #hackhall, you will collaborate, connect to new libraries/projects, and improve open source projects.

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Register via Eventbrite and join us on Saturday, 3 March 2018!

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Sessions:

• Discriminnovation & the future of NYC’s Open Algorithm Law
• The future of open source & digital civic service with NYC Planning
• Civic Engagement in NYC: The landscape & where we’re headed with Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
• Reducing the anxiety of NYC middle school applications through open data & peer networks
• Libraries: your partner in safeguarding privacy with METRO & the City’s library systems
• Localizing Mozilla’s Internet Health Report to NYC
• Workshop – Truth in Broadband User Testing with The Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (NYC CTO)
• Workshop – BetaNYC’s Intro to BoardStat & Civic Data Journey
• Workshop – NYC DOITT GIS / mapping NYC 311 with open source tools developed by the city
• Workshop – NYC Planning & future of PLUTO

Featured HackHall Projects & Organizations:

• NYC Department of City Planning
• NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications’ GIS department
• Sunlight Foundation & their Open Data Census
• StreetMix
• Hacking a Smart City Together, a smart city workshop using arduinos
• The Grid – the tool to measure pedistitran activity
• New York Public Library’s “Connections” guide & data liberation into Street Lives
• The Refugee Libraries Project

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Tickets:
$80 solidarity ticket – one participant ticket, limited edition gift, & $40 tax-deductible donation to BetaNYC.
$40 – one participant ticket.
Free – Professional on-site childcare.

Event details:
Saturday, 3 March 2018; 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
Rise New York, 43 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010

Other links:

• Apply to volunteer for a 2 hour shift: https://betanyc.forms.fm/sodata-2018-volunteer-app
• Read The People’s Roadmap for a Digital New York City.
  
• BetaNYC’s Event Code of Conduct.

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Register via Eventbrite and join us on Saturday, 3 March 2018!

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Event Partner:

Rise New York is a global community of startups and corporates creating the future of commerce and fintech by helping startups and entrepreneurs connect, co-create, and scale innovation. In partnership with Barclays, we listen, nurture and oxygenate through our international network of Rise hubs. Rise New York also houses a world-class event space and is home to the U.S. cohort of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars.