• Connecting more New Yorkers to free Wi-Fi through public spaces, including 26 park locations, 6 subway stations and 11 payphone kiosks. Through the City’s cable franchise agreements, Wi-Fi will grow to an additional 32 public parks through a $10 million commitment by Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. In addition, the City is also supporting more broadband choices for residents, serving 80,000 low income families with high-speed internet.
  
• Introducing two new Applied Sciences campuses, including the Cornell NYC Tech on Roosevelt Island, the new NYU/NYU-Poly Center for Urban Science and Progress, and the Academy for Software Engineering – all together, a $2 billion capital investment for building more STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) instruction in New York City. The City has partnered with the public and private sector on these groundbreaking education initiatives that will create an estimated 400 new businesses, 22,000 construction jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
  
• Passing landmark open data legislation to open all of the City’s data by 2018, releasing nearly 900 data sets in real-time APIs, and hosting two hackathons, resulting in 5,000 person-hours dedicated to solving civic challenges and nearly two dozen website prototypes and applications.
  
• Increasing the City’s digital reach each month to more than 5.4 million individuals through social media, smartphone apps, SMS programs, newsletters and NYC.gov. The City’s social media audience doubled to 2.4 million with the launch of the central NYC Gov social media channels on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube and Foursquare, providing New Yorkers with an easy way to stay informed on the most critical information from City government in emergencies and everyday life. In addition, the redesign of NYC.gov is underway and will be designed with a user-centric approach, making the site more intuitive, usable and efficient than ever before.
  
• Supporting New York City’s digital sector through recognition of homegrown startups, expansion of the City’s broadband connectivity for businesses to 600 buildings in the next two years and partnerships with technology companies like Facebook, Buddy Media and Shapeways to develop youth employment programs that encourage diversity in the workforce and help young students discover careers in the industry. Along with the launch of the Made In NY Digital Map, highlighting nearly 1,000 local technology companies hiring this very moment, the City also applied for the .nyc top-level domain to truly embrace its digital future and encourage more companies to grow and thrive in New York City.

Access: Connecting all New Yorkers