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Intel Supports Girls Who Code, Laying the Path for Future Engineers

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As the old guard of engineering professionals approaches retirement, people everywhere are starting to ask, “Who’s going to take over these jobs once they’re gone?” At the same time, engineering and technology professions are starting to take a critical look at the need for increased diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) jobs. In the […]

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Walter Mosley, Recipient of the 2014 Langston Hughes Medal

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In honor of the poet laureate of Harlem, 2014 marked the 29th annual award ceremony and 40th year of the Langston Hughes Festival, hosted by the City College of New York (CCNY) in Harlem. Each year the award goes to a Black writer whose work has lasting impact and is in line with the democratic,

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Mayor de Blasio and Digital NYC

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MAYOR DE BLASIO: “Technology is driving innovation across New York City’s industries – from fashion to finance to manufacturing, making it more necessary than ever for the City’s digital community to have a central platform. Digital.NYC is a ground-breaking resource that will seamlessly connect members of the City’s tech hub to training, jobs, and funding

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Majora Carter and The Startup Box Enterprise

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“A Digital Renaissance in The South Bronx” The South Bronx is part of New York’s 15th Congressional District, a neighborhood where it has been postulated that the emergence of Hip-Hop emanated, a subculture of artistic forms that promulgated throughout New York City; from urban to suburban communities. The myriad of artistic diversity that permeated the

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Vast Industry Opportunities STEM from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were initially developed in the 1800s as land-grant colleges to afford underrepresented African Americans their rights to inexpensive, yet high-quality, education, in the face of a prejudicial old guard that has dominated the American high education system. Since then, HBCUs transformed into a crucial incubation chamber for STEM professionals

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Hank Williams and the Quest to Diversify Silicon Alley

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Hank Williams is a low-key guy. By his quiet yet thoughtful demeanor you would never know he has had an intangible impact on the New York City tech industry long before the term “Silicon Alley” came into fashion, is a champion of the diversity in STEM movement, and helped inspire the creation of digital.nyc. The

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FORTIS Exoskeleton — Inside the Machine

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With the omnipresent cloud of digital data, everyone and their grandmother sporting an up-to-date smartphone, and now wearable technology, the divide between humans and machines is becoming ever thinner. Of course, the story of human ingenuity and our capacity to thrive as a species is partly the story of how we’ve used technology to adapt

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Digital.NYC and Capitalizing on The Cyberspace Real-Estate: Domain Registration & Cybersquatting (TLD)

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The Financial Capital, World-Renowned Tourist Attraction, Historical Landmarks, Modeling and Acting Industry of New York City, is about to propel into an unprecedented Technological outburst. On the 23rd January 2014, a Registry Agreement between The Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication, entered

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David S Rose, and The Gust Global SaaS Funding Platform

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“Entrepreneurs Meet Accredited Investors” Gust is a global SaaS funding platform that connects start-ups with the largest collection of investors across the world, serving as a virtual intermediary between skilled entrepreneurs and canny investors. A platform for sourcing and managing start-ups in their embryonic stages; the “Software as a Service” SaaS, is a software service

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