Mayor Bloomberg has made many efforts to modernize New York City for the quickly progressing technological era. He has been pushing the city to become the next Silicon Valley.
The first step into the era is Mr. Bloomberg’s initiative to revamp and highlight New York City’s website previously stuck in the year 2000. The website was created by Mayor Giuliani before facebook, before the 311 service and before the iPhone. The site was cluttered and not user friendly sporting large blocks of poorly organized text and an inefficient search engine. Now, the design has been streamlined to highlight day-to-day information such as school closings and parking rules. The site also directs you to a yellow box that provides various 311 services all form the comfort of your computer screen. From this website, mayoral announcements can be live-streamed and the bulky search engine has been replaced with Google.
All of these changes have been made in effort to bring the city into a “digital future,” streamlining vital information for New Yorkers. The site can be accessed on various, if not all, devices. It has withstood the heavy traffic caused by Hurricane Sandy and developers will continue to improve and accommodate new forms of social media.
The site has been refreshed.
