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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 4h

New to AI? Start with the basics. Join us for a free virtual AI 101 workshop on Sunday, Oct. 4, from 10–11:30 am ET. Learn how to get useful results, spot privacy risks, and decide when AI is actually helpful. No tech background needed. www.beta.nyc/event/e261004

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

Missed a session at CityCamp NYC on September 19, or want to relive one? The Virtual Board has notes and highlights from the day. The link is in our September 24 issue: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

For more on technology in city government, subscribe to our weekly newsletter: beta.nyc/newsletter

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

Testify yourself, in person or in writing. Written testimony is accepted up to 72 hours after the hearing: council.nyc.gov/testify

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

BetaNYC's Executive Director will be there. Your questions will help shape our testimony.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

How should local government use AI? Build an open source lab? Add your voice to the conversation.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

It is rare for the full Council to meet on one topic. Learn more and sign up to testify: council.nyc.gov/testify

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 8h

Monday, October 5, 11 am: the NYC Council meets as a Committee of the Whole on AI at City Hall. What should the Speaker and the Council ask the Mayor's team and AI companies? Reply with your five questions.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 29/09/2026

Congrats to Cornell's Einhorn Center fellows! Its latest cohort, 42 faculty and staff and the largest since 2013, includes our friend Kate Nicholson of the Public Interest Technology Initiative at Cornell Tech. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 29/09/2026

NASA's Space Apps Challenge comes to NYU Tandon in Brooklyn, November 13 to 15, in person and virtual. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 29/09/2026

The NYC Civic Engagement Commission is looking for partners to carry out the 20 projects New Yorkers chose in Cycle 4 of participatory budgeting. The People's Money RFI closes October 28. Details in this week's issue: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 29/09/2026

Open Data Week 2027 is growing: next year's event runs for two full weeks. Stay tuned, our call for proposals is launching very soon. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 28/09/2026

Civic tech news, jobs, hearings, and new data. Every week, free. Subscribe: www.beta.nyc/newsletter

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 28/09/2026

Will the subway be running on the day of your event? Our mta-mcp server answers that one question, elevator outages included. It's free and unofficial, so confirm at mta.info before you travel. betanyc.github.io/mta-mcp/

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 28/09/2026

In New York, opposing data centers is now bipartisan. Majorities of Democrats and Independents, plus a plurality of Republicans, back Governor Hochul's one-year pause on large data centers. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 28/09/2026

Have something to say about 311? The Council's Committee on Technology holds an oversight hearing on the city's 311 system this Wednesday, September 30 at 1:00 pm. Written testimony is accepted, and in-person testimony needs no pre-registration. council.nyc.gov/testify/

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 27/09/2026

$18 million for captioned and described classroom video. Two five-year U.S. Department of Education agreements fund the Described and Captioned Media Program for more than seven million students with disabilities. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 27/09/2026

Brooklyn developer Henry Williams put the city's 170,000-plus newly released 9/11 pages on a map at 911records.nyc. The Department of Investigation is now examining what city officials knew about World Trade Center dust. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 27/09/2026

Our September 24 issue in 13 seconds: 235 of you built CityCamp NYC, the Virtual Board has notes from the day, and Open Data Week 2027 runs two full weeks. The whole issue: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 27/09/2026

Join BetaBuilders, a community for people building New York's public interest tech. www.beta.nyc/betabuilders/ Or support the work with a donation. beta.nyc/donate

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 26/09/2026

Having trouble getting into BetaBuilders, our Discord community, since CityCamp? Fill out our tech support form at betanyc.civicrm.org/civicrm/memb... or email builders@beta.nyc, and we'll get you sorted.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 26/09/2026

Missed a session at CityCamp NYC, or want to relive one? The Virtual Board has notes and highlights from the day. The link is in this week's issue: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 26/09/2026

235 of you came to Hunter College on September 19 for CityCamp NYC 2026. An unconference has no agenda until the people in the room write one, and you wrote a good one. Thank you for building it with us. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 25/09/2026

Job alert: Senior Data Associate, Children and Family Well-being, at the NYC Commission on Racial Equity. Applications close October 1. More roles in this week's issue: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 25/09/2026

New York's AI safety law has an enforcer: a new $10.4 million office at the Department of Financial Services. Frontier AI developers register in November, ahead of the RAISE Act's January 1 compliance date. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 25/09/2026

The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection analyzed 152 million DoorDash payment transactions and found more than 260,000 delivery workers were underpaid from April 2022 to June 2026. The city won back $131.5 million. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 25/09/2026

235 of you built CityCamp NYC together last Saturday. Meanwhile, the city used DoorDash's own data to win back $131.5M for delivery workers, and New York's AI law just got an enforcer. This week's civic tech roundup: www.beta.nyc/2026/09/24/n... #CivicTech

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 20/09/2026

See you online. BetaBuilders is BetaNYC's community on Discord, and it is where the conversations you started at CityCamp keep going. www.beta.nyc/betabuilders/

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 20/09/2026

CityCamp NYC 2026 ran on the support of Reinvent Albany, Nava, HunterWorks, Hunter College Urban Policy and Planning, and Database Tycoon. Thank you, all of you.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Database Tycoon is a data consultancy doing system design and architecture for nonprofits and small and mid-sized organizations. If your org's database is held together with hope, say hello.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Thank you to Database Tycoon, our 2026 Tabling Sponsor for CityCamp NYC. They are tabling all day, so go find them. www.databasetycoon.com

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Hunter's Urban Policy and Planning program was founded on advocacy planning, and it still puts students and faculty alongside community organizations rather than above them.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Thank you to our Venue Partners at Hunter College, the HunterWorks initiative and Hunter College Urban Policy and Planning. They gave CityCamp NYC a home at 695 Park Avenue. www.hunterurban.org

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Nava is a public benefit corporation that works with federal and state agencies to make public services simpler to use. They rebuild the systems people actually depend on.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Thank you to Nava, our 2026 Community Sponsor for CityCamp NYC. Their support pays for scholarship tickets, so price is not what keeps someone out of the room. www.navapbc.com

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Their current work runs from strengthening FOIL to holding state authorities to account, the MTA included. Worth following if you care how Albany actually operates.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 19/09/2026

Thank you to Reinvent Albany, our 2026 Lead Partner for CityCamp NYC. They fight for a transparent and accountable New York: FOIL, open government data, and authorities that answer to someone. reinventalbany.org

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

A civic conference doesn’t have to be a day of sitting quietly. CityCamp NYC is built around participation, experimentation, conversation, and unexpected connections. Join us at Hunter College Sept. 19. www.citycamp.nyc

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

Civic tech news, jobs, hearings, and new data. Every week, free.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

The answer is not another training program. The next generation of public interest tech needs mentorship. Our research says so, and so does a new report. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/17/t...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

Entry-level tech jobs with high AI exposure fell 29%. The ones without it rose 21%. That is displacement inside tech, not a shrinking sector. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/17/t...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

Database Tycoon, our 2026 Tabling Sponsor. They will be at a table all day, so go find them.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

The HunterWorks initiative and Hunter College Urban Policy and Planning, our Venue Partners. They gave us 695 Park Avenue on a Saturday.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

Nava, our 2026 Community Sponsor. Their support pays for scholarship tickets, so price is not what keeps someone out of the room.

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

CityCamp NYC is tomorrow, and four organizations paid for it before they knew what the day would hold. Thank you to Reinvent Albany, our 2026 Lead Partner. citycamp.nyc

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

The Council takes up 311 oversight on September 30, with three 311 bills on the agenda. You have until then to write testimony. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/17/t...

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BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc · 18/09/2026

A partisan think tank has seven staff inside the Census Bureau, holding the clearance that reaches sensitive data. The census sits under nearly every city dataset we write about. www.beta.nyc/2026/09/17/t...

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