3: OPEN GOVERNMENT

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The City of New York is committed to constant innovation and transparency, and an Open Government approach enables the City to collaborate with developers to better serve New Yorkers through technology. Open Government systems apply the successful models of technology companies such as Facebook or Foursquare, whose open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable them to exponentially scale services and compound the "network e¤ects" of their platform. In the same way, the City of New York aims to serve as a platform for technology innovation by opening its data resources to spark ideas and tools that serve New Yorkers. Over the past year, led by the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT), the City of New York's Open Government achievements have been unprecedented, including landmark open data legislation; the release of hundreds of new, real-time data sets and the biggest year yet for NYC BigApps, the City's developer contest co-hosted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYEDC). Next Steps for Open Government -- Open Government measures have demonstrated that by working together, the private sector and public sector can achieve far more to benefit society than ever before possible. Digital technology has exponentially increased the potential of the public-private partnership, and some of the most exciting initiatives of the past year, including the Reinvent NYC.gov hackathon and the Made in NY Digital Map have been the product of such partnerships.

Stakeholder(s):

• Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME): TRANSPARENCY IN REAL-TIME: LIVE ONLINE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS -- A key element of the City's Open Government plan is greater transparency, and to engage New Yorkers more deeply in civic life, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) announced in April 2012 that live coverage of City Council hearings are now available online at council.nyc.gov. This development makes New York City the largest municipality to carry live legislative hearings. Additionally, NYC Media, part of MOME, has worked to rebrand and redesign many of the aspects of the NYC Gov channel to now include government facts, informative City Council maps and committee profiles of each member.


• New York City's Chief Business Operations Officer: PROVIDE ACCESSIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN OPENING AND OPERATING BUSINESSES IN NEW YORK CITY -- In June 2012, the Mayor appointed Tokumbo Shobowale as the City's first Chief Business Operations Officer to lead a concerted initiative in making government more responsive and efficient when working with New York City businesses. A primary focus of the initiative is to provide a more efficient and transparent online experience at NYC.gov for businesses to meet the City's permitting, licensing and other regulatory requirements. Businesses will be able to access clear information for operating in the city, apply and pay online for licenses, permits and other credentials and follow the status of their applications, plans and inspections.


• Tokumbo Shobowale: New York City's Chief Business Operations Officer


• New York City Businesses

Objective(s):

3.1: NYC OpenData

3.1.1: Open Data Plan

3.1.1.1: Technical Standards Manual

3.1.1.2: Data Conversion

3.1.1.3: Compliance Plans

3.2: Developer Feedback

3.3: Visualization Tools

3.4: App Wishlists

3.5: Apps Hub

3.6: Reinvent NYC.gov Hackathon

3.7: Reinvent Green Hackathon

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