Month: March 2013
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Launch: Foodborne Chicago
Today marks the launch of Foodborne Chicago, a website that connects people who complain about food poisoning on Twitter to the people who can help them out— the Chicago Department of Public Health. We use the City’s Open311 system to directly submit your information to make a request about your food poisoning incident. Here’s info…
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Email Marketing: ILOpenTech Challenge
I’ve been proud of the emails I’ve written and photos I’ve taken for the Illinois Open Technology Challenge. I like this one especially:
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Panel: FOIA Fest!
Today I participated in a panel discussion for the Chicago Headline Club, described by Fernandio Diaz as follows: Citizen Advocacy Center’s Terry Pastika, the Northwestern University Knight Lab’s Joe Germuska and Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Dan O’Neil will discuss efforts to influence policy and legislation and how technology can improve access to public records. Here’s coverage…
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News Story: Courting Suburban Civic Hackers in Illinois (Tech President)
Today TechPresident covered the Illinois Open Technology Challenge: Courting Suburban Civic Hackers in Illinois. Snip: “In each one of these places government people and developers for the first time … have been in the same room together,” said Daniel X. O’Neil, the executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative who gains his civic hacking cred, in…