The Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) partner to manage the NYC Open Data program, which has over 2,300 publicly available datasets used each week by 30,000 students, researchers, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and others. To achieve Open Data for All, MODA and DoITT have increased awareness of City data through marketing campaigns and regular events, including the production of an annual Open Data Week in early March. They have also improved the usability of public data through a new user-friendly Open Data website, data dictionaries for 90% of all datasets, and the development of a best-in-class metadata standard. Learn more at www.nyc.gov/opendata.
Open Data Advisory Council Members:
Aileen Gemma Smith – CEO, Vizalytics
Andrew Rasiej – Founder, Civic Hall , Personal Democracy Forum Founder, NY Tech Alliance Chairman Emeritus, Mouse.org Founder
Asher Ross – Data Director, Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit
Ben Wolcott – Manager of Evaluation and Research, Make the Road New York
Cea Weaver – Campaign Coordinator, NYS Tenants and Neighbors
Cynthia Nicklin – Director of Data Governance and Open Data Coordinator, NYC Department of Buildings
Clayton Banks – Co-founder and CEO, Silicon Harlem
Dan Kass – Co-Founder & Executive Director, JustFix.nyc and Steering Committee Member, Housing Data Coalition
Darren Bloch – Senior Advisor to the Mayor and Director of Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships
Faith Jaskowiak – Director of Marketing & Partnerships, CUNY Startups
Hadassah Damien – Design Thinking Facilitator, ConsenSys
Jerelyn Rodriguez – Co-founder and CEO, The Knowledge House
Jessie Braden – Co-founder and Director, Pratt Institute Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI)
John Kaehny – Executive Director, Reinvent Albany
Kai Falkenberg – 1st Amendment lawyer, Lecturer in Law, Columbia, Former 1st Dep Comm’r, Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Kathy Zhang – Founder, Mobility Futures
Marc DaCosta – Co-founder and Chairman, Enigma
Noel Hidalgo – Executive Director, BetaNYC
Rachael Weiss Riley – Director, Two Sigma Data Clinic
Sarah Burd-Sharps – Director of Research, Everytown for Gun Safety and Former Co-Director at Measure of America
Sarah Rankin – Quantitative Data Analyst, New York Public Library
Sophia N. Halkitis – Data Analyst, Citizens Committee for Children of NY and Adjunct Lecturer, Queens College
Yale Fox – Founder and CEO, Rentlogic