NYC mayor consolidates technology agencies

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued an executive order to consolidate all city technology agencies under a single authority in a bid to streamline operations and improve internal co-operation.

The work of several formerly independent agencies will be brought together under the new Office of Technology and Innovation, which replaces the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and will be led by the city's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Matthew Fraser.

The Office of Data Analytics, the Office of Information Privacy and New York Cyber Command will continue but within the new Office of Technology and Innovation.

“All of them now are disjointed,” Adams said ...