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Investment in upgrading technology and potential for repurposing retired equipment
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Council Member Julie Won inquires about the $2.4 million investment to upgrade technology in older adult centers, libraries, and the NYCHA digital van program. CTO Matthew C. Fraser discusses the plans for technology upgrades and the potential for repurposing retired city equipment.
- $2.4 million investment in upgrading technology for various facilities
- Discussion of which NYCHA developments will benefit from the upgrades
- Potential for reusing retired city technology equipment to address gaps in underserved areas
Julie Won
0:40:37
Okay.
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If you need any support, we're here to support you because we do not want any of our NYCHA residents losing this very valuable service.
0:40:45
For the 2,400,000.0 investment to upgrade technology in older adult centers, libraries, and then for the NYCHA digital van program or the New York City digital equity roadmap.
0:40:57
I'm really glad to hear that.
0:40:59
We get requests all the time from especially our senior centers at our NYCHA's about how outdated their technology is especially their laptops or their hard hardware for their desktops.
0:41:11
So do you have a list of who or like which NYCHA's are gonna be part of this 2,400,000.0 investment to upgrade their technology?
Matthew C. Fraser
0:41:19
So what we'll gladly do is we'll work with council with sharing a list of what we've had based on the feedback that we've received.
0:41:24
But we're also looking for opportunities where we can do better.
0:41:28
Alright?
Julie Won
0:41:28
Okay.
Matthew C. Fraser
0:41:29
The city the city purchases a lot of infrastructure and when that infrastructure ages out, we have some capabilities to reuse that infrastructure in other places.
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The useful life for the equipment may not no longer serve city purpose, doesn't mean that it can't be useful to someone else.
Julie Won
0:41:44
Right.
Matthew C. Fraser
0:41:45
So if we've got areas where we've have computers that are a decade old or we've got areas where we have tablets that are decade old and you're we're retiring things out of city service, it might be a good opportunity for us to reuse those to help cover some of these gaps.
Julie Won
0:41:58
Yeah.
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I would love to make sure that Queensbridge houses, Ravenswood houses, and Woodside houses for their senior center and their youth programming and their libraries within the NYCHA's are in dire need for upgrades of their technology.
0:42:10
And we also have partners in district that refurbish and recycle a lot of the hardware so that because I know firsthand for DOE they just throw them out on the street.
0:42:20
Yeah.
0:42:21
So if there's ways that we can make sure that you're partnering with people who are dying to take your trash, would love to make that connection.
Matthew C. Fraser
0:42:27
Yeah.
0:42:28
I think very much like what you've seen with the deal that we recently did with T Mobile.
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The city procures a lot and we have significant buying power.
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And making smarter decisions around how we leverage our assets, whether that's giving it back to the schools, donating it to areas where other people can use it.
0:42:46
I think it's it's important that we reassess and reevaluate our our options in those spaces.
0:42:51
And to your point, instead of putting it on the street for it to be taken out with the trash, maybe leveraging it to to help an area where we have a critical gap may be a good option for us.
0:43:03
But we'll take a look at that and see.
Julie Won
0:43:05
Okay and my last question is about I don't have a lot of information on it but we've heard a lot in bits and pieces from especially from health and hospitals while they were running the Herx that OTI had built a platform on host where you were the first centralized platform for all city agencies including DHS, H and H, OEM and HPD were all using a centralized database to collect all the migrant data that were taken in.