NYC School of Data 2025

Imagine a publicly accessible lab space where we can come together to showcase projects aimed at unlocking the power of Open Data and digital tools to empower communities. We are committed to creating such a venue in NYC.

Through a fun and interactive "visioning game," participants will collaborate to design a blueprint for a NYC Public Interest Technology Lab. We will be using an IRL game format and arts and crafts to engage participants. Our goal is to emerge from this workshop with a bold, shared vision of a collaborative hub that bridges sectors and communities: promoting digital equity, tech transparency, and community empowerment. The outcomes of this workshop will help guide our planning for the NYC PIT Pop-Up that we are going to be creating in Fall 2025 that will feature our collective work.

In this workshop, you’ll learn what public interest technology is and how it can be understood as part of community-driven data solutions. Working together in a gamified format, teams will map the lab’s potential priorities, generate focus areas, and identify resources to make the biggest impact. Using collaborative storytelling and creative exercises, we’ll synthesize your ideas into actionable next steps. Participants will have the opportunity to win prizes. Join us to help shape the future of public interest technology in NYC and make this vision a reality!

Anyone attending School of Data/Open Data week who are engaged in projects/orgs that promote digital equity, public access to data science, performance & protest art, public interest technologists, civic technologists, data practitioners and early career technologists are encouraged to attend. Student, community, academic and non-profit leaders welcome.