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Year: 2013

  • Knight News Challenge Open Gov Round

    I served as a Reader for the Knight News Challenge Open Gov Round. It was a great experience that helped me sharpen the focus of my work in the civic innovation sector of the technology industry. Some of my writing was reffed in the preview blog post: News Challenge on open gov launches Feb. 12…

  • The Shining Girls

    The Shining Girls

    This book, by Lauren Beukes, is set in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, and I lived there with my family starting in 1985. I spent some time giving Lauren background on what it was like to live here at that time:

  • Radio: FoodBorne Chicago on WBEZ Morning Shift

    Today I spoke with Tony Sarabia of the WBEZ Morning Shift about Foodborne Chicago. Here’s the sound. Listen all the way to the end for a pretty wacky bumper tune. Here’s a selfie video of the show in-studio: DXO on WBEZ for FoodBorne Chicago from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.

  • Academic Reference: “Evaluating Digital Civic Innovation In Cities”

    The broad digital civic innovation ecosystem in “Evaluating Digital Civic Innovation In Cities“, a paper prepared by  Nikhil Gahlawat and Kristina Redgrave in fulfillment of Master Degree in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Snip: Chicago is comprised of three main players: Chicago city government, the community of tech-savvy community activists (“hacktivists”), and the Smart Chicago…

  • 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…

  • 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:

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Appointment to the State of Illinois Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee

    Today I was appointed to the State of Illinois Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee. Here’s a description of their work: The Committee advises the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in establishing criteria and procedures for identifying recipients of grants under the Digital Divide Elimination Act. The advisory committee shall obtain advice from the technology industry…