Sentences with phrase «tech city initiative»

The strategy is modeled on the broadly successful Tech City initiative, which has seen London's «Silicon Roundabout» — a bleak gyratory system in the east of the city — become an unlikely but popular home for dozens of IT startups.

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Mayor Berke and Skuid founder and CEO Ken McElrath sat down with Fortune to discuss the economic impact of Chattanooga's city - wide tech initiative.

Tell me about the economic impact that this kind of tech initiative can have on a mid-size city like Chattanooga.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

Wednesday night at the New York Tech Meet - Up, the New York City Campaign Finance Board unveiled its own initiative to make participation in the voting process easier: a mobile web application with voter registration and candidate information.

In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, however, the iZone initiative, and schools like Global Tech — which have benefited from extra funding and support offered through the program — are being buffeted by a series of changes, from budget cuts to city - wide implementation of the Common Core state standards.

The Rochester Photonics Institute, which is charged with developing high - tech initiatives in that city, and Mohawk Valley Edge, centered around Utica, are among the other organizations that could potentially fall under the ESD domain although they are not precisely like Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler.

The Council will also look to expand summer youth employment, increase anti-gun violence initiatives, create tech incubators in outer - boroughs including Staten Island, and beef up funding for repaving rough city roads.

While other districts, such as New York City, have sought qualified teachers abroad, the Chicago initiative is unique because the INS will issue visas similar to those used to fill shortages in high - tech fields.

«If you work a second shift as a parent, and can never talk on the phone, it's problematic, but if you can text, that's a game changer,» says Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities and former executive director of Tech Goes Home, an initiative to help improve technology access among low income parents.

In addition, a number of external partners join state and city leaders to support these schools and their initiatives; for example, philanthropies and national organizations like the Gates Foundation and Jobs for the Future provide financial and strategic support for schools, and industry partners like Con - Edison and IBM support P - TECH programs.11

Operating through its Early College High School initiative, CUNY lays a lot of the groundwork in coordinating P - TECH's structure with IBM and the New York City Department of Education.

Vocational initiatives like the Tech City Apprenticeship offer employers in the tech sector a channel they can use to locate the skills and talent their businesses need, for examTech City Apprenticeship offer employers in the tech sector a channel they can use to locate the skills and talent their businesses need, for examtech sector a channel they can use to locate the skills and talent their businesses need, for example.

Due to its high tech infrastructure and implementations of several smart initiatives, Dubai has been declared as the Middle East's leading smart city, by Huawei and Navigant, who studied the strategy and implementation of smart city campaigns in the region.

Part of that activity is due to a city - backed initiative to attract high - tech companies to the outskirts of the CBD.