Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference kicks off NYC’s annual Open Data Week & features OVER 30 sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations & workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood. Follow the conversation #nycSOdata on twitter and tune into our live stream (provided by the Internet Society of New York).
In this session, you’ll be participating in a co-design session that will provide inputs into open-source design patterns and tools to imagine how we might increase digital transparency in the public realm.
As technology progresses, it provides new opportunities to help our public spaces become more comfortable, responsive, and efficient. But all technology in the public realm must be considered within the context of the people who live in those places.
By participating in this session, you’ll be contributing to an initial draft of open standards and design patterns aimed at bringing meaningful transparency to the many technologies that exist and are used in the public realm today.
Sidewalk Labs’ goal is to make these concepts publicly and freely available for others to adopt, use and build upon, so that we can advance digital literacy and help people understand digital infrastructure in the public realm.
