LinkNYC is the system of 7,500+ high-tech public communications structures that will be installed across the five boroughs of New York City. Each of these new structures will each provide completely free, ultra-high speed encrypted Wi-Fi service (up to 1 Gigabit in speed) out to a radius of 150 feet and will be able to serve as many as 256 users at a time.
Agency: Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Point of Contact: tbd
The Short-Cycle Evaluation Challenge matches educators with educational technology companies to pilot new products in their classrooms that are designed to address teacher and student needs. The Challenge aims to develop a rigorous technology evaluation cycle that is significantly shorter than randomized control trials, and thus valuable to principals and teachers as they make everyday decisions.
Agency: Department of Education
Point of Contact: tbd
The City Record Online is now a fully searchable database of notices published in the City Record newspaper which includes but is not limited to: public hearings and meetings, public auctions and sales, solicitations and awards and official rules proposed and adopted by city agencies.
The Operational Excellence Program is an innovative public-private partnership with Veolia Water to address a broad array of procurement, technology, workforce, materials and revenue strategies for achieving substantial budget savings, without outsourcing or privatization. Over 100 initiatives ranging have collectively resulted in $100 million dollars in financial benefit to the budget.
The IdeaScale pilot project in the 109th Precinct solicits residents to submit quality of life issues that they want addressed by the Police Department. IdeaScale users are able to add, comment on, and vote on the issues that they identify as being the most important. In this way, the residents of different communities within a police precinct are able to directly communicate their concerns with the precinct commander.
Print Smart, a partnership with the Xerox Corporation, is the first citywide initiative to manage the City’s print environment. To date, Print Smart has reduced the number of printing devices in participating agencies by 64%, cut greenhouse gas emissions associated with printing by 71%, and saved the City $1.7 million.
The installation of vacancy sensors across 90 schools in all five boroughs, to be completed by summer 2017, is expected to save 17 million kWh per year, reducing the City’s greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs by 3,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MT CO2e) and over $2 million per year.
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