Bloomberg was honored for starting New York City's 311 hotline and other innovative programs. He told the Kennedy School audience that technology has the power to "close the gap between what we know needs to be done, and what actually gets done."
Bloomberg recently appointed Avi Duvdevani -- CIO of the New York City Housing Authority -- to the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee.
Broadband Advisory Committee
New York City Council Member Gale Brewer -- chair of the Committee on Technology in Government -- sponsored Local Law 126 creating the Broadband Advisory Committee to advise the Mayor and the City Council on how to bring affordable broadband to all New York City residents, nonprofit organizations and businesses. The Broadband Advisory Committee will hold its first public hearing on March 30 at Bronx Community College, University Avenue at 181st St. from 10 a.m. to noon.
The hearing in the Bronx will kick-off a series of five public hearings that will be convened in every borough of New York City. Based on these hearings and with the help of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Advisory Committee will report their findings and recommendations to the Mayor and City Council.
Advisory Committee representatives include: Mitchel Ahlbaum, DoITT; Shaun M. Belle, Mount Hope Housing Company; Thomas Dunne, Verizon New York; Avi Duvdevani, NYCHA; John J. Gilbert III, Rudin Management Company; Wendy Lader, NYCEDC; Howard Szarfarc, Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey; Anthony Townsend, Institute for the Future; David Birdsell, City University of New York; Neil Pariser, South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp.; Andrew Rasiej, Personal Democracy Forum and MOUSE; Jose Rodriguez, Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network; Elisabeth Stock, Computers for Youth; Nicholas Thompson, WIRED Magazine, David Wicks, Alwyn Group.
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