Rachel S. Haot, Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Secretary of Technology at the State of New York for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, opens the Chief Digital Officer Summit 2014 with a fireside chat with David Mathison at Time Warner in NYC.
Rachel's goal is to realize Governor Cuomo's vision for NY State by improving the way that government and the public engage online, and supporting collaborative innovation with the technology community.
Rachel was previously Chief Digital Officer for New York City for Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The topic of her presentation was "Improving government and public engagement through digital innovation."
We discussed her current role and objectives, and explored her previous role as CDO of NYC under Mayor Bloomberg, where they delivered New York City's first Digital Roadmap in 2011.
Less than 3 years later, they had completed 100% of the objectives in the Roadmap, driven by investments in infrastructure, education, open government, online engagement and technology sector support.
Highlights include:
● Enabling 300,000 low-income residents to access the Internet and adopt service since the introduction of the first Digital Roadmap.
● Launching over 40 digital learning programs that have served over 1,000,000 New Yorkers to date, including Cornell Tech NYC on Roosevet Island.
● Expanding the NYC OpenData platform from 350 public data sets offered at launch to over 2,000.
● Relaunching a groundbreaking nyc.gov website and tripling the City's social media audience.
● Growing the City's technology sector to over 1,000 Made in NY technology companies.
The second Chief Digital Officer Summit was held on April 22-23, 2014, at the Time Warner Conference Center in New York City.
The first Chief Digital Officer (CDO) Summit was held at Thomson Reuters in New York City in February, 2013.
The inaugural CDO Summit in the UK will be held on October 29, 2014, at the BBC Media Centre in London, England.
Tickets to the UK CDO Summit are available now:
London: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chief-digital-officer-summit-london-2014-tickets-10029330999
For more information, visit
http://CDOSummit.com
http://CDOSummit.co.uk
http://CDOClub.com
