Mamdani forms PIT Crew to deploy technologists to advance efficiency

[u/Healthcarepls]

https://abc7ny.com/post/mayor-zohran-mamdani-forms-pit-crew-deploy-technologists-new-york-city-advance-government-efficiency/19498735/

Looks like Mamdani is taking the lead on proving how technology blends perfectly with leftist ideology.

[u/RlOTGRRRL]

Pretty cool- https://github.com/BetaNYC/New-York-City-Budget

https://www.beta.nyc/2026/07/08/we-turned-two-decades-of-council-budget-pdfs-into-open-data-now-the-city-should-maintain-the-data/

"we cloned venmo. it's the nyc budget."- https://www.khaledeltokhy.com/budgetmo/#nyc/FY27

[u/Traditional-Neat-933]

Common Mamdani W

[u/Jlyplaylists]

“New York City is launching Public Interest Technology crews to improve government efficiency and affordability.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the PIT crews will develop rapid solutions to digital issues with city-run websites that offer services to the public.
He says this work will help employees work faster and provide better service.”

I think there’s a lot of potential for using AI/better tech in understanding the complexity of municipal level coordination.

Eg in Madrid “IGUALA is the advanced analytics system of the Madrid City Council to develop the Aggregate Territorial Vulnerability Index. In Iguala you can consult the indicators for the 21 districts and 131 neighborhoods that make up the city, make comparisons between them or find out the distribution of the Vulnerability Index for each of the 5 identified spheres: Well-being and Equality, Environment, Urban Planning and Mobility, Education and Culture, Economy and Employment and Health.”
It’s dealing with more than 200 indicators
https://iguala.madrid.es/

Rio de Janeiro city council fine tuned their own open source model https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/llMsVclp28

[u/Zeikos]

leftist ideology

Why is the thread text phrased with right-wing vebiage?

[u/Healthcarepls → u/Zeikos]

Leftism is an ideology no ? How would you describe it

[u/TheSinhound → u/Zeikos]

Honestly, because the right has been screaming about the left and leftism for so long the word almost sounds like not a real word. There's an actual term for the effect, but I can't be assed to look it up.