What's New in NYC Tech - January 23, 2025

Our community is rooted in the fundamental right of human dignity for all and strengthened by the beauty of our diversity. This past week has been a whirlwind, but moments like these remind us of the power of coming together. Now is the time to check in on your friends and loved ones and forge bonds that uplift us all.?

This Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a time to reflect on our nation and the importance of serving our community. Our events are emblematic of these services and will continue to be a guiding light. Through our events, we honor our shared values, creating safer spaces that reflect and cherish the unique strength of our city’s diversity. This Saturday, we’ll be at Wikipedia Day NYC 2025 (although tickets are sold out, there’s the option to livestream starting at 3 pm). Next Thursday, the NYC Open Data Week team and Data Through Design will host a Winter Open Data Week Meetup from 5 to 8 pm at Randolph Beer in DUMBO. We hope you can join us; if not, we hope to see you at a future event.

Wishing you and your loved ones peace and light. ????

Community Resources ????

• Women in Urbanism starter pack - Anine Hartmann and Cathy Tuttle?
• What Happened On January 20th: An exercise in directing attention - Anya Kamenetz
• For reality: A few thoughts on the last day of the old world - Bill McKibben
• The Climate Policy Pendulum - Gernot Wagner
• What Happened to Hanging Out on the Street? - David Zipper
• The Fascistic Solutionism of AI w/ Dan McQuillan - Tech Won’t Save Us?
• Immigration Policy Tracking Project - Professor Lucas Guttentag with Stanford and Yale Law students
• The State of Digital Government Report - The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Government Digital Service?

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

• What’s the latest on Congestion Pricing? A Bloomberg analysis found that there have been fewer cars on the road for now. Also, you can explore transit ridership during Congestion Pricing’s first week through the MTA’s Bus Hourly Ridership and Subway Hourly Ridership datasets. ??
• ICYMI: Community board applications are currently open for Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens and are open year-round in Staten Island. The Bronx will open shortly. Need a refresher? Read last year’s primer from THE CITY.
• The Data Visualization Society released its State of the Industry Survey Report, including visualizations of the present and future of data visualization.

In this week’s federal news:?

• Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy - Jon Brodkin and John Timmer??
• Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech - Natalie Alms?
• U.S. Digital Service employees are being re-interviewed under DOGE transition - Natalie Alms
• Trump axes Biden’s AI executive order - Natalie Alms

Jobs Alert and Announcements (for more listings, check out #Jobs) ???

• The Manhattan University O’Malley School of Business is hiring a Visiting Assistant or Associate Professor.?
• The MTA is seeking an Assistant Transit Management Analyst.
• The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is searching for a Data Analyst.
• The New York City Emergency Management is recruiting a Geospatial Analytics Program Manager.
• The Office of the New York City Comptroller is hiring an Economic Research Analyst.

Upcoming Events ??

Note: All times are listed in EDT

• January 29 at 2 pm iPIT ComPITencies with Fordham University (learn more here)
• February 3 at 6:30 pm Decongest Fest
• February 5 at 6 pm Discovering NYC Open Data: Online Session
• February 19 at 10 am NYC Council Committee on Technology Hearing?
• March 21 to April 6, 2025 Data Through Design’s Corpus: Bodies of Data?
• March 22 to 30, 2025 NYC Open Data Week
• March 29, 2025 NYC School of Data
• June 19 to 21, 2025 State of the Map US, Boston

That’s all for today! Want to be featured in future posts? Share your community resources, projects, events, and anything else happening so we can feature them in future newsletters. Take care, and have a great weekend!