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Month: August 2013

  • Television: #CivicSummer Segment on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

    This evening I took part in a segment on Chicago Tonight about the Smart Chicago #CivicSummer program. Here’s their take on the show and here’s a complete view of the video of the show: civicsummer from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.

  • Television: “Helpful Hackers” Story of Fox 32 Chicago

    Tonight I helped do a spot on Fox 32 9 o’clock news on the civic hacking community here in Chicago. Hackers use their skills to make Chicago more “user-friendly” FOX 32 Chicago News Story: Hackers use their skills to make Chicago more `user-friendly` from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s the Rap Genius annotation for…

  • News Story: Hackers Called Into Civic Duty

    Today I was reffedd in a story in the Wall Street Journal covering the great work of civic hackers in Chicago: Hackers Called Into Civic DutyChicago, Other Cities Work With Programmers to Leverage Data Troves for Public Purpose Snip: “People still think hacking is getting people’s credit-card numbers from J.C. Penney,” said Daniel X. O’Neil,…

  • News Story: Food-poisoning tweets get just desserts

    Here’s some coverage of the Foodborne Chicago project today. The main story was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune: Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up: Health authorities seek out sickened Chicagoans, ask them to report restaurants. It was a very complete story, with detailed custom graphics on the process we follow to manage incoming tweets: The…

  • Education: The End of Our First #CivicSummer

    Today marked the end of the first 6-week #CivicSummer program at Smart Chicago. Here’s a short description of the program: Civic Innovation Summer is an experimental summer jobs program for teens focused on civics, media, and technology. The program, run in July and August of 2013, includes more than 140 Chicago teens being trained to…

  • News Story: “Open Data Victories Come to Illinois”

    Here’s an article from Government Technology Magazine about new legislation here in Illinois. Snip: The real challenge around open data thus far, according to Daniel O’Neil, executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, has been the lack of a central figure who can organize everyone around a common goal that already enjoys widespread support. “I…