January 11th, 2013

Open Government Initiatives Helped New Yorkers Stay Connected During Hurricane Sandy

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Editor’s note: Rachel Haot is the first Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, where she leads NYC Digital and is focused on the city’s digital media strategy.

From hackathons to social media, open government is transforming the way that Mayor Bloomberg’s administration and New York City government serve the public. And there has been no greater testament to open government’s… → Read More

May 16th, 2011

New York Reveals Plan To Become America's Next Top Digital City

Through new official partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, and NY-based startups Foursquare and Tumblr, New York aims to become America’s next, top digital city.

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city’s first, chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, presented their Road Map for the Digital City, today.

Before formulating the plan, Sterne led a comprehensive 90-day review of the city’s… → Read More

June 30th, 2009

Can Open Government Be Gamed?

If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available. Today at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, the government’s new chief information officer Vivek Kundra announced USAspending.gov, a new site which launched today that tracks government spending… → Read More