A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artistic interventions

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

A project to measure and show bus performance in NYC

• mobility
• mass transit

• Dashboards

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We collect and join datasets together to create a data-driven view of New York City government.

• Civic data

A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

• Civic hacking meetups

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Where innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology for the urban environment come to thrive.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Search New York City parking & camera violations

• mobility

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

SLA Mapper (SLAM) is a tool that aggregates data that community boards often have to gather in order to review liquor license applications and sidewalk cafe applications. Displaying this information in a unified view saves community boards considerable time and resources.

• Data visualization

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

GoGetta has New York’s most up-to-date service information on food, personal care, shelter, and clothing.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Our team spent two years listening to homeless New Yorkers. This website aims to summarize our findings and push forward sensible reforms that we developed alongside our homeless neighbors.

• homelessness

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

“FOIA Data Mining” is a FOIA service that enables watchdog organizations to organize volunteers in retyping and structuring responses to FOIA requests.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We help you better understand NYC government, and give you decision-making tools to improve it

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

‎Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Wheely NYC. Download Wheely NYC and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Mapping NYC automobile collisions and their resulting injuries and fatalities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The First Hackathon Inside the historic New York City Hall

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

BetaNYC project

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

the_message, BetaNYC's monthly newsletter

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware