NYU Jacobs Academic Building (GK Tramrunner / Wikimedia) Share Aug 2, 2021 | STATESCOOP Starting later this month, New York University’s GovLab will launch a new grant program supporting 10 local government technology officials from around the world with an opportunity to develop data-driven projects for their cities. The program, called “City Incubator,” will run from September to March 2022 within the Open Data Policy Lab, a resource hub launched last year by GovLab — a research center within the NYU Tandon School of Engineering — and Microsoft. City officials who are selected are to be given access to a “mentor council” of technologists, private-sector executives and engineers for six months to build out their dream data projects, much like a startup incubator would allow a founder to launch a company from the ground up.