What's New in NYC Tech - Jan 05, 2024

Happy New Year everyone! ?? Hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful, restful holiday. And Happy Three Kings Day / Día de Los Reyes to those celebrating! It’s time to jump into our updates for this week.

This Week in NYC Civic Tech / Gov Watch ???

• Streetsblog USA named BetaNYC as part of their Honorary Mentions for Activist of the Year!
• ICYMI: Community board applications are open for Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens!
• Congestion Pricing Update: The United Federation of Teachers and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella filed a lawsuit to prevent congestion pricing in Manhattan.
• The NYC Department of City Planning plans to update New Yorkers next week on the Bronx Metro-North Station Area Study. Gothamist has more details on what to expect.

Jobs Alert and Announcements (for more listings, check out #Jobs in our Slack workspace - https://slack.beta.nyc) ??

• The New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget is hiring an Assistant Director - Technology Budget & Management.
• Measures for Justice is seeking a Platform Security Engineer II/III, Data Test Engineer II and Senior Frontend Engineer II/III.
• Scholarship applications for State of the Map US 2024 are due ASAP! You'll get to join OpenStreetMap US this June in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• TickPick is searching for a Junior Data Engineer and Data Analyst.

Upcoming Events ??

• Jan 14 Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2024 - Eventbrite RSVP required
• Jan 19 at 12pm Discovering NYC Open Data: Online Session
• Jan 19-20 Mapping USA 2024 Conference - our very own Dimitri Mimy will be presenting! ??

That’s all for today! Want to be featured in future posts? Share your projects, events, announcements, and anything else for our community. Take care and see you next week! ????