Open Data Week

The Urban Tech Hub partnered with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, BetaNYC, and Data Through Design, to co-host NYC’s Open Data Week.

In the first week of March 2022, coders, activists, government officials and hackers gathered online and in person on campus to celebrate NYC Open Data as well as the 10th anniversary of the Open Data Law. The week-long festival of events included School of Data, a day-long civic tech conference and Data Through Design, a data visualization art exhibition.

Open Data Week is an annual festival of community-driven events. Every year, New Yorkers come together across the five boroughs to celebrate New York City’s Open Data Law, which was signed into law on March 7, 2012. Coincidentally, the first weekend of March is also International Open Data Day. During this weeklong event, organizers rallied NYC’s civic tech and open data communities and offered opportunities for more people to learn about and engage with municipal open data.