Walk the Web Carpet Contest
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.
New York City Nominated for Two Webby Awards
Each year, the world’s most outstanding websites and media campaigns compete for The Webby Awards, the leading Internet award honoring excellence in websites, interactive media, social networking, and mobile. Once nominated, the public casts their votes for nominees in order to determine who is the Best of the Web in each category. This year the City of New York received two nominations and three honors — more distinctions than any other city.
In the Best Government Website category is NYC Service, which helped connect over 10,000 New Yorkers with volunteer opportunities in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The New York Public Library was also nominated in the Best Education & Discovery Website category for it’s innovative community-based digital archiving projects.
The NYC Economic Development Corporation and NYC Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting websites received honors in the Government category, and the NYC Mayor’s Office Twitter were honored in the Public Service & Activism category.
Voice your support by voting for NYC Service and the New York Public Library until April 30th, 2013.
For more information and a full list of nominees, visit webbyawards.com
Why Broadband Is Good for Business
There are just 10 days left to get in your application for the ConnectNYC Fiber Challenge.
As the submission period comes to a close, we want to emphasize the importance of high-speed broadband and the impact that it can have on businesses in New York City.
Improving the city’s broadband infrastructure
Here’s a short paragraph on why the ConnectNYC Fiber Challenge is important, in the words of venture capitalist Fred Wilson. (If you haven’t read Fred’s full blog post on the ConnectNYC Fiber Challenge, definitely check it out.)
“In addition to getting a lot of local businesses high speed broadband, this contest will also give an indication to the city and local ISPs of where the most important neighborhoods are for broadband buildout. We spend a lot of time with our portfolio companies dealing with infrastructure issues around real estate and broadband and I can tell you that this is big problem in NYC. Companies that want to move to low cost neighborhoods with interesting buildings like Red Hook, Gowanus, Vinegar Hill, the Greenpoint waterfront, Long Island City, and other similar places simply cannot do that due to the lack of good broadband. If the city wants to see these neighborhoods emerge commercially, they will need to deal with the broadband problem. ConnectNYC is a nice way to get going on the problem.”
NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky agrees:
“In recent years, New York City has emerged as a global hub of technology and innovation. The ConnectNYC competition is the next important step in our efforts to build upon this momentum, expanding broadband connectivity across the City and ensuring that our broadband infrastructure meets the needs of our businesses throughout the 21st Century.”
If your business could benefit from faster internet, we urge you to enter the ConnectNYC Fiber Challenge (and spread the word to your friends)! If you haven’t already, take a look at the submission form and start drafting your answers today.
Reblogged from NYCEDC
The NYCHA Digital Van is in the Bronx Today offering free Wifi & computer access until 4 pm. To find out more the van’s schedule, visit bit.ly/bxdigital.
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) operates two Digital Vans, allowing NYCHA residents with limited internet access to easily and quickly go online to look for jobs, print résumés, and complete homework assignments right outside their building.
The vans are partly funded by the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant.
…John Gittens, 53, scoured the Web to look for law clerk jobs and to gather information for his personal dream — to build a community garden, “but on a massive scale.”A 45-year NYCHA resident, Gittens called the mobile computer labs “the best idea they’ve ever had.”
“A lot of people don’t have computers,” he said. “And many of those that do, don’t know how to use them,” he added, recalling times he saw computer novices learn the basics from a Digital Van instructor.
via dnainfo.com
Now when you visit Staten Island’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, you’ll be able to take out your laptop or iPad and watch YouTube videos, play Words with Friends, and catch up on your email.
Time Warner Cable and the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) opened the new Harlem Community Center Learning Lab last week.
DoITT Commissioner Carole Post remarked:
In a digital world that’s made smaller than ever before by common technologies we can all use and share, the world remains a big place for people without access to broadband… As part of the City’s overall broadband strategy, including partners like Time Warner Cable, the Johnson Community Center is the latest in a line of more than 100 facilities that will provide free public broadband service across the five boroughs.
Read more on NYC.gov
Reblogged from NYC GOV
Congrats to Columbia University and NYU for being two of the 25 most buzzed universities on the internet.
New York City is gearing up to apply for a new Internet domain with a .nyc suffix, a move made possible by a recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet address system, to approve the creation of a large number of new so-called top-level domains.
Source: The New York Times
On December 14, 2011, the City of New York announced a first-of-its-kind undercover investigation of illegal online gun sales. The video above provides actual audio from the investigation, which covered 125 sellers from 14 states advertising on 10 websites.
Loading tweets...
Technology in the Public Service, from the City of New York. Learn more about NYC Digital and follow the City of New York on Tumblr.
Email
Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Follow on Tumblr
Mobile version
Random post
