New York City is trying to see it’s future as a data platform, according to this article.
The city has been trying to do that in a number of ways, Sterne told the [Activate] conference, including its Open Data initiative, which has produced more than 350 public data sets developers and services can use, and has helped power the BigApps challenge that awards prizes of up to $40,000 to the winner of a competition for best city-data based app. Winners include Roadify, which allows users to share traffic and parking-related data with others and incorporates data from the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and the Don’t Eat At app — which sends an alert to users if the restaurant they check into on Foursquare is in danger of being shut down due to health risks.
Some nice examples of how the NY is using social media and open data.
