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Jeff Merritt (born May 16, 1978) currently serves as Director of Innovation for the City of New York as part of the Mayor's Office of Tech and Innovation. He is also known for his work as founder of the New York City nonprofit organization, Grassroots Initiative, where he organized the first exclusively online public election in the United States. ==Career== Jeff began his career working with U.S. State Department-sponsored programs in Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro.〔 Based on his experiences with democracy promotion in the Balkans, Jeff co-authored "Transacting Transition, The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the Former Yugoslavia" (Kumarian Press, 2006). From 2003-2005, Jeff served as Executive Director for the Center for Civic Responsibility. In 2005, he founded Grassroots Initiative, a nonprofit organization that seeks to "provide easy political access for underrepresented groups and other political outsiders."〔 In 2006, as President of Grassroots Initiative, Jeff helped elected the first Sikhs to political office in New York City. In 2009, under contract from the New York City Department of Education, Jeff helped run the first exclusively online public election in the United States.〔 In 2010, Jeff joined the office of New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and in 2012 was named one of City & State's "New York City Rising Stars: 40 Under 40" for his work there as Senior Advisor. At the Public Advocate's office, Jeff helped developed New York City's Worst Landlord Watchlist, a first-of-its-kind tool to allow tenants to look up a current or potential landlord to see code violations in that landlord’s buildings. The tool was expanded through a partnership with Craiglist in 2011 and replicated by the City of Vancouver in 2012. Jeff also led the Public Advocate's open government and technology initiatives and national coalitions on issues of corporate political spending and gun divestment.〔 Following the election of Bill de Blasio as Mayor of New York City, Jeff helped established the Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation.〔 As part of the Mayor's Office, Jeff led a range of technology efforts including the launch of the .nyc top-level domain, development of outreach systems for the expansion of pre-k in New York City,〔 and the announcement of LinkNYC, New York City's plan to build the largest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network in the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Merritt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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