# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Mayor Bill de Blasio's "NYC Digital Playbook"

1 Faculty News May 10, 2016 ![amNewYork logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_047171.jpg?itok=hgocihsv)>

Excerpt from [amNewYork](http://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano/governing-there-s-an-app-for-that-1.11781486) -- "There is 'a lot of information that individual citizens have that often stays with them,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University and author of 'The Sharing Economy.' That information, from potholes to trash pick-up, can be funneled to local government. Other easy uses of a digital mentality, says Sundararajan, could include digitally-enabled ridesharing that would allow people to share NYC taxis a la UberPool, saving time and reducing road-hours."

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