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Year: 2013

  • 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…

  • Aspen FOCAS 2013: Data Working Group

    Today I presented some of the outputs of the Data Working Group of Aspen FOCAS 2013. https://vimeo.com/70228207

  • News story: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps

    Here’s a story about the CUTGroup in today’s Chicago Tribune. Harris: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps July 7. 2013 Daniel O’Neil of the Smart Chicago Collaborative aims to engage city residents in the process of building civic-minded technology Daniel O’Neil is one of the founders of Everyblock. The now shuttered hyperlocal news website was…

  • New Story: Emanuel to nominate Brenna Berman to be city’s chief information officer

    Today Smart Chicago was reffed in this article about Mayor Emanuel’s appointment of Brenna Berman to be CIO for the City of Chicago. Snip: DoIT is working with groups such as the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a tech-focused civic backed by the city, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust.…

  • Announcement of the Winners of the Illinois Open Technology Challenge

    Today I presented awards to the winners of the Illinois Open Technology Challenge at the Cultural Center in Chicago. Here’s the press release from Governor Quinn with the official announcement of the winners: Governor Quinn Announces Winners of Illinois Open Technology Challenge Unprecedented Release and Compilation of Municipal Government Data Fuels Competition to Develop Civic-Minded…

  • Writing: Seeing open government & civic innovation as drivers of economic development

    Today I wrote an article for the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition’s Catalyst publication. Seeing open government & civic innovation as drivers of economic development. Snip: Yesterday was a big day in Illinois for open government and innovation. The Illinois Innovation Network website was launched, the second quarterly Illinois Innovation Index revealed new data on STEM education and employment, and Gov.…