Year: 2013
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Radio: Open Data Movement and the Coming Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today I was interviewed on WBEZ’s Morning Shift about the coming relaunch of EveryBlock. Here’s an embed: And an audio file:
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Panel: UIC Urban Forum: How Technology Can Help Unite the Government with its People
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the UIC Urban Forum. Book to come! Panelists: Scott Bernstein, President and Co-Founder, The Center for Neighborhood Technology *Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jon Gant, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Daniel O’Neil, Executive Director,…
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Profile: The Smart Chicago Collaborative: A New Model for Civic Innovation in Cities
Here’s a blog post about Smart Chicago from the website of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Their research focus is “the intersection of government and data, ranging from open data and predictive analytics to civic engagement technology”. Here’s the post: The Smart Chicago Collaborative: A New Model for Civic Innovation…
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Presentation to CFA 2014 Fellows: Overcoming Objections
Top three best practices in overcoming objections 1. Cheerful, positive, water-like. 2. Stay above. Speak in terms of policy. Make everything repeatable. 3. There are nothing but details. Nothing else matters. Dan O’Neil (773) 960-6045 danielx@gmail.com
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Panel: The Great Leveller
Today I participated in a panel called, “The Great Leveller”, about the promise of health data, at “A Health Data Consortium Event: Putting Health Data to Work in Our States and Communities“. Here’s their description: In partnership with the State of Illinois, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Data Consortium…
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Panel: It Takes A Village
Today I took part in a discussion hosted by the Health Data Consortium called, “It Takes a Village”. I spoke with Jim Alexander of the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute about the unique partnerships necessary to do our work at Smart Chicago.
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Panel: Fellows Seminars | Robin Carnahan: “Democracy 2.0: How the Next Generation of Leaders Can Save a System in Crisis”
This evening I spoke at this event: Oct. 28 at 4:30 p.m: Technology and Governing: How New Technologies,Civic Entrepreneurs, and Start-ups Are Impacting How Citizens View Government How can tools like crowd sourcing and e-volunteers be used effectively in the public sector? How might individuals interested in creating innovative ways for government to provide services…
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Speaking: Testimony to Cook County Finance Committee
Today I spoke on behalf of the technology portion of the FY 2014 Cook County Budget. Here’s the full text: Remarks to the Cook County Finance Committee in Support of the Cook County Bureau of Technology FY2014 Budget Good morning Mr. Chairman and Commissioners. My name is Daniel X. O’Neil, and I am the Executive…
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Me: Work, Sun
Here’s me at work today:
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Writing: “Author at the Table” for the Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner
Tonight I was honored to be an “Author at the Table”— a local author chosen to sit with guests at the annual Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner for the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Here’s some pics: And here’s a video of the scene before hitting the stage: Here’s the complete bios of all the authors:…