NYC Digital

Facebook, The MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla and the Family and Online Safety Institute (FOSI) are hosting a hackathon where developers, designers, educators, programmers and learning innovators will develop social tools — apps, badges, curricula, and other prototypes — that help make for a better Web, and especially to make young people’s online experiences more civil, more empowering and more firmly under their own control. The day will culminate in a judged competition, and the best ideas will earn prizes totaling $48,000.

When: Next Thursday, May 9th 9:00am-7:30pm

Where: Center 548, 548 West 22nd Street, New York NY

For more info: http://bit.ly/Z6mNe8

Register today at http://bit.ly/11A1b89.

Want a VIP pass to Internet Week, personal tours of startups and tech companies in New York City?  Enter General Assembly’s “Walk the Web Carpet” Contest at http://ga.co/aB.

Soon the prestige of a New York City address or area code will extend to the digital realm. With its application for .nyc in 2012, New York became one of the first cities in the world to pursue its own geographic top-level domain. A top-level domain or TLD, is the last part of an Internet address, such as .com, .org or .edu. 

mydotnyc.com is an informational website which provides initial .nyc details so the public can stay informed on the launch.

With the historic launch of the .nyc TLD, the City will embrace its digital future in a powerful way and bring an unprecedented level of geographic authority to the digital sphere. In addition, the City will generate revenue, help residents locate government services, encourage local businesses to thrive, market and promote tourism, and spread the dynamic image of New York City around the world.

For more information, visit mydotnyc.com or follow @dotnyc on Twitter.

On Friday May 17th, 30 Made in New York tech companies will open their doors to the public as part of WalkaboutNYC. This self-guided tour is free and open to the public, however spots are limited and require a RSVP.

These innovative Made in New York companies invite you to tour their workspaces and see how they work:

1. 10Gen
2. Animoto
3. AppNexus
4. Artsy
5. Betterment
6. Charitybuzz
7. Chartbeat
8. Fog Creek Software
9. Foursquare
10. Gilt Groupe
11. Harvest
12. Indaba Music
13. Knewton
14. Livestream
15. MLB Advanced Media
16. Madison Logic
17. OMGPOP
18. Onswipe
19. Photoshelter
20. Sailthru
21. Seamless
22. SecondMarket
23. SeatGeek
24. Squarespace
25. Stack Exchange
26. SumAll
27. Tumblr
28. Vimeo
29. Voxy
30. Yodle

For a full list of participating companies, visit walkaboutnyc.com

Next week on April 30th, AppNexus and Made in NY will host a discussion moderated by NYC Digital’s Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Sterne Haot and 3 Made in NY companies on why they call NYC home and why their successes could only have happened here. 

The conversation will include:

• Michael Rubenstein, President, AppNexus
• Michael Karnjanakorn, CEO and Co-Founder, Skillshare
• Vincent Polidoro, CTO and Co-Founder, PublicStuff

Event Details:

When:
Tuesday, April 30
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm with a brief reception to follow

Where:
AppNexus
28 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6309520947/clientemail

The event is free and open to anyone that RSVPs.

Join the NYC BigApps Jobs and Economic Mobility Hackathon (April 20-21), featuring $5,000 in cash prizes for winning teams that participate and demo apps that improve underserved New Yorkers’ access to work and economic opportunity.

The BigApps team will help you find a team to join and provide expert advisors to answer programming, design, and Jobs and Economic Mobility questions. 

AGENDA & SCHEDULE

SATURDAY April 20, 2013 
9:30am - 10:00am: Registration, Check-In & Breakfast 
10:00am - 11:00am: Welcome Message, Opening Keynote Speakers and Hackathon Introduction, Rules & Demos. Erine A. Gray, Founder of Aunt Bertha. Tom Hilliard, Senior Fellow in Workforce Development Policy at Center for an Urban Future 
11:00am - 6:00pm: Hacking! NYC BigApps Advisors & Data Partners will be present 
12:30pm: Lunch 
5:00pm - 6:00pm: Dinner 
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Insights Presentation (Snacks & Drinks) 

SUNDAY April 21, 2013 
9:30am - 10:00am: Registration, Check-In & Breakfast 
10:00am - 10:15am: Welcome Remarks 
10:15am - 4:30pm - Hacking! NYC BigApps Advisors & Data Partners will be present 
12:30pm: Lunch 
4:30pm: Submissions Due 
4:45pm - 5:30pm: Demos 
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Dinner & Judge Deliberation 
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Awards presented, drinks and party

NYC BigApps is the City’s premier open data software competition. Over the last three years of the competition, over 235 free web and mobile applications have been created from over 750 City data sets, winning over $100,000 in prizes. This year we are offering $150,000 in cash prizes and many other exciting changes, including a focus on BigIssues.
Read more at NYCBigApps.com

This year marked the first annual Disruptor Cup, a civic hackathon for talented innovators to build tools to solve problems and improve the quality of life in New York City. Developers were challenged to create projects that improve the City’s emergency preparedness, response and long-term recovery tools using the Open Data Portal.

VoluntarilyApp (winner) - VoluntarilyApp is a mobile solution that helps recovery organizations and canvassers collect, communicate and visualize data about pockets of need in disaster affected areas in real time.

TelAPI POD - POD is a hardware component which can be plugged into any outlet and determines when the power is out. When the outlet is not conducting electrical current, POD sends SMS messages to homeowners, business owners and their corresponding power companies to let them know that there is a power outage at a particular location. In addition, POD captures the time at which power failures take place as well as the length of time the outage persists via a web interface.

Disaster Remote Response - Disaster Remote Response is a disaster response platform that facilitates real-time communication between remote volunteers and those impacted by disasters before, during and after their occurrence.

CMDR - CMDR is a tool which offers volunteers and canvassers geo-location tracking and telephony communication services during emergency events.

For more information on Disruptor Cup, visit disruptorcup.com.

IDEAS CITY is a biennial festival in New York City that explores the nexus of cities and technology, education, and the arts. Among the featured exhibitions will be prototypes submitted by finalists of the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge: the City’s invitation to technologists and developers to redesign the payphone.

This year’s Ideas City festival will focus on Untapped Capital, with participants focused on reinventing underutilized city services. To this end, the City has sought input from the talented technology, urban design, architecture, and maker community to explore how payphones could be restructured and redesigned to optimize public space and deliver vital information and services. The prototypes serve as inspiration for a safer, more accessible, and greener New York City streetscape. 

The exhibition will take place during StreetFest on Saturday, May 4th, from 11AM-6PM. Streetfest takes Place around the Bowery and in Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

For more information on the exhibition, visit on.nyc.gov/XCNFSa