Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s annual Open Data Week & features 60+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations & workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood. Follow the conversation #nycSOdata on twitter and tune into our live stream (provided by the Internet Society New York Chapter).
To attend, you need to purchase tickets via eventbrite. Venue is fully accessible and content is all ages friendly — free, professional on-site childcare is provided for ALL participants! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < schoolofdata@beta.nyc >.
This interactive panel introduces tools of democracy in use in NYC and around the world including Participatory Budgeting, Citizens' Assemblies, Co-Lab Challenges, and SMS outreach. Attendees will have an opportunity to share their perspectives on the utility of these civic engagement tools for different applications, and consider the challenges of brining offline tools of democracy into the digital realm.
