Month: January 2014
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ORD Camp Listener
Today I attended ORD Camp and I listened to people.
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On the Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today marks the relaunch of EveryBlock, six years to the day after its first launch. Here’s what I had to say: “Chicago is a national leader in civic innovation, and the return of EveryBlock is an opportunity for deepening that leadership. We’re especially interested in the development of EveryBlock as an open platform for developers…
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Expunge.io
Today I helped launch a website called Expuge.io. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post at Smart Chicago: The site, which helps start the process of erasing juvenile arrests and/or court records, is pretty much why we exist. For us, it grew naturally out of work we did over our CivicSummer, interacting with youth on…