Acknowledgments
Office of Technology & Innovation (OTI) Staff and Fellows
Thank you to everyone who worked on or alongside the Open Data Team, including:
- Alex Finkel
- Alfred Eng
- Alfredo Véliz
- Aryanna Holder
- Deena Patel
- Dominic Mauro
- Martha Norrick
- Michael Xie
- Ogunkeye Hyacinthe
- Oliver Bjornsson
- Sharia Hoque
- Tayyab Walker
- Zachary Feder
A special thank you to June Tang, who volunteered her time to help with the original design of this report in 2022.
NYC Open Data Ambassadors
The Open Data Ambassadors (ODA) program recruits, trains, and certifies cohorts of volunteers who in turn teach New Yorkers how they can understand and use public data. Thank you to those volunteers and the people who run this program, listed below, who help share Open Data:
Click here to learn more about upcoming Open Data 101 classes!
- Alex Finkel
- Armen Hayrapetyan
- Ariana Paul
- Aryanna Holder
- Christian Martinez
- Doug Williamson
- Elif Ensari
- Gabrielle Langston
- Gina Levitan
- Hebah Emara
- Jennah Gosciak
- Jennifer Yeaton
- Kate Nicholson
- Lacey Strahm
- Laura Hechtlinger
- Martha Norrick
- Meghan Maloy
- Natarajan Krishnaswami
- Nathan Storey
- Ogunkeye Hyacinthe
- Oliver Bjornsson
- Yuki Mitsuda
- Zachary Feder
NYC Open Data Week 2025 Presenting Organizations
NYC Open Data Week is an annual festival of community-driven events organized and produced by the NYC Open Data Team, the civic technology organization BetaNYC, and the independent art collective Data Through Design. Every March, New Yorkers come together online and across the five boroughs to help us celebrate the power of public data and the anniversary of NYC’s 2012 Open Data Law. Here are the 60+ organizations that presented during Open Data Week 2025:
- Adelphi University
- Barnard College Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC)
- BetaNYC
- Center for Sustainable Development
- Cornell Tech
- Crosswalk Labs
- Culture and Arts Policy Institute
- CUNY BMCC
- CUNY Tech Prep
- Data Collaborative for Justice
- DataKind
- Datasketch
- Department of Biostatistics, Global School of Public Health, New York University
- Endangered Language Alliance
- F.Y. Eye
- Farming Concrete
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- General Services Administration Analytics and Decision Support Division
- GISMO (NYC Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization)
- Housing Data Coalition
- Hunter College
- Hunter College's Urban Policy and Planning Department
- inCitu
- JustFix
- NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy
- NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
- NYC Mayor's Office of Operations
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- MIXI: Manhattan Institute for STEM and the Imagination
- New York City Council
- New York Hall of Science
- New York Institute of Technology
- New York Sea Grant
- NYC Campaign Finance Board
- NYC Council Data Team
- NYC Department for the Aging
- NYC Department of City Planning
- NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services
- NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygeine
- NYC Department of Youth and Community Development
- NYC Emergency Management
- NYC Independent Budget Office
- NYC Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation
- NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy
- NYC Mayor's Office of Management and Budget
- NYC Office of Technology & Innovation
- NYC Parks
- NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission
- Office of the New York City Comptroller
- Open Data Ambassadors
- OpenStreetMap
- Prime Produce
- Queens Memory Project at Queens Public Library
- Queens Public Library
- Randall's Island Park Alliance
- SDGs Today
- Seeds to Soil
- Tow Center for Digital Journalism
- Trivium Interactive
- U.S. Census Bureau
- UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
- University Neighborhood Housing Program
- University of Connecticut
- WeGovNYC
- Wikimedia NYC
- zlvas
You can watch recordings of past events on the Open Data Week archive!