Open Data Week Gives New York Two Weeks to Decide What Public Data Can Become
A city can publish billions of rows before anybody decides what the data should help people understand.
NYC Open Data Week returns from March 27 through April 11, 2027, expanding into a two-week festival across New York City and online. The Office of Data Strategy at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, BetaNYC and Data Through Design are building the program from community proposals around civic technology, public data, art and the systems New Yorkers encounter every day.
The festival begins with Data Through Design's annual exhibition and includes NYC School of Data, BetaNYC's day-long public-interest technology conference. The full schedule will be released in early 2027. The current invitation is for the community to help write it.
Why this room matters
Open data becomes useful through interpretation. A dataset may describe housing, transportation, public health or city services. The public consequence arrives when somebody turns it into a question, a map, a tool, an artwork or a room where residents and government can examine the same record together.
Open Data Week is giving that work more space in 2027. Organizers are accepting proposals for virtual and in-person sessions through December 6. The two-week format is designed to reduce conflicts between events and let more of the civic-technology community move through the program.
The final schedule will determine which questions reach a stage, which communities see themselves inside the data and which public systems become easier to understand because somebody chose to build with the record instead of merely publishing it.
Event details
- Dates: March 27-April 11, 2027
- Location: Across New York City and online
- Organizers: NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, BetaNYC and Data Through Design
- Program: Community events, Data Through Design and NYC School of Data
- Proposal deadline: December 6, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET
- Official page: NYC Open Data Week
The complete program is expected in early 2027. Use the official page for proposal guidance and schedule updates.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Open Data Week Gives New York Two Weeks to Decide What Public Data Can Become?
2027-03-27 through 2027-04-11; Schedule forthcoming.
Where is the event?
Locations across New York City and online, New York.
Where can I find official access details?
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