{"id":134,"date":"2016-10-27T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=134"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T19:35:05","slug":"new-york-city-council-works-with-microsoft-to-test-first-paperless-stated-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/10\/27\/134\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Council Works With Microsoft To Test First Paperless Stated Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Goals are to reduce paper use, create efficiency and modernize work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CITY HALL<\/strong> \u2013 Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council today announced the integration of Microsoft Surface tablets into the Council\u2019s Stated meeting as a means of testing how technology can help Members view or easily search documents, reduce the use of volumes of paper and the preparation time involved with copying and distribution, and modernize the way the Council conducts its business. The use of tablets, along with QR codes for looking up documents, was first tested during a hearing of the Council\u2019s technology committee in June. Today is the first trial run at a Stated meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This latest digital effort reflects the Speaker and Council\u2019s commitment to building a Council that is technologically agile and that can engage the public both online and offline. In 2015, the Speaker announced Council 2.0, a roadmap for digital inclusion and open government that called for testing new ways of making the Council more accessible to diverse New Yorkers.\u00a0 Results from this plan include the introduction of a plain-language, mobile-friendly website, labs.council.nyc, the integration of texting in Participatory Budgeting and the release of a constituency services dataset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Council must be present and engaged online, across all the platforms we find diverse New Yorkers on, and this requires us to upgrade the way we work and interact,\u201d said Speaker Mark-Viverito. \u201cI am thrilled with this historic effort to embed digital and environmentally-friendly practices that will allow us to be more effective policy makers and public servants, and I thank Microsoft for being such an enthusiastic technology partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft loaned the Council more than 60 tablets and other equipment to perform today\u2019s first-ever paperless Stated meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Friday, tablets will also be integrated into the Council\u2019s Sanitation committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the test at Stated and the hearing, the Council will study feedback from Members and also work to advance the public\u2019s digital experience with Council meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Goals are to reduce paper use, create efficiency and modernize work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CITY HALL<\/strong> \u2013 Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council today announced the integration of Microsoft Surface tablets into the Council\u2019s Stated meeting as a means of testing how technology can help Members view or easily search documents, reduce the use of volumes of paper and the preparation time involved with copying and distribution, and modernize the way the Council conducts its business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2016\/10\/27\/134\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}