About us
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## What is BetaNYC
BetaNYC envisions an informed and empowered public who can leverage technology, design, and data to address their problems and hold government accountable.
We are dedicated to civic technology, smart communities, & open government. We are a nonpartisan good government community using technology, design, and data to empower individuals and local communities, provides for an honest and efficient government, and build a civically‐engaged ecosystem.
BetaNYC is building a connected NYC, by the people, for the people, for the 21st Century.
## Important Community Resources
Slack - BetaNYC has an active Slack community.
The Message - BetaNYC’s Newsletter
Reddit - our Public Interest NYC Reddit group to share and gather ideas for Public Interest projects and issues in NYC.
Videos of previous events and instructional videos.
Upcoming events
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Discovering NYC Open Data: Online Session: March 2026
·OnlineOnlinePlease RSVP at https://www.beta.nyc/event/e260311.
Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.
** This training is FREE and OPEN to the public **
You will gain an understanding of:
- What NYC Open Data is!
- How to find specific datasets
- How to filter a dataset
- How to visualize data in charts and graphs
- Tools and Applications of Open Data
- How to stay involved
Who should attend?
- Anyone! No experience necessary.
- Educators & Students
- Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
- Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
- City Planners and Mappers
The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC. Visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!
5 attendees
NYC School of Data 2026
CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, New York, NY, USPlease register for this event at schoolofdata.nyc.
BetaNYC’s annual community conference invites New Yorkers to engage with the City’s technology, data, and design communities during Open Data Week.
NYC School of Data is a community conference that brings together the City’s technology, data, and design communities during Open Data Week. It is organized by BetaNYC, with programming support from the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation. Learn more about NYC Open Data Week at opendataweek.nyc.
From 250+ community-suggested sessions, we are organizing a day thought-provoking panels, workshops, and sessions to cover various topics: digital and data literacy, privacy, smart cities, open government, service design, civic engagement, and open data.
This year, we're celebrating TEN YEARS!
Come learn and contribute to the next decade of technology, data, and policy — by us, for us! Learn more at schoolofdata.nyc.
4 attendees
UnSchool of Data
CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square, New York, NY, USLearn more and register for this unconference at:
schoolofdata.nyc/unschool.UnSchool of Data is an open space unconference for networking, co-creating, and learning. It brings together city residents, technologists, civic leaders, students, advocates, policy nerds, government staff, elected officials, journalists, designers, and more to leverage open data to tackle some of the most pressing issues in NYC and beyond.
It’s a community-driven day for turning open data into civic solutions.
UnSchool of Data has these Underlying Goals:
- Foster formal and informal communities of practice and action.
- Convene community members to share civic insights and ideas.
- Create processes/projects that people will use for further action.
2 attendeesDiscovering NYC Open Data: Online Session: April 2026
·OnlineOnlinePlease RSVP at https://www.beta.nyc/e260410.
Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.
** This training is FREE and OPEN to the public **
You will gain an understanding of:
- What NYC Open Data is!
- How to find specific datasets
- How to filter a dataset
- How to visualize data in charts and graphs
- Tools and Applications of Open Data
- How to stay involved
Who should attend?
- Anyone! No experience necessary.
- Educators & Students
- Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
- Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
- City Planners and Mappers
The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC. Visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!
2 attendees
Past events
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