Month: January 2015
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Smart Chicago Model Featured in the Chicago Community Trust Annual Report
Here’s a feature on the work of Smart Chicago in the 2014 Annual Report of the Chicago Community Trust. Here’s a snip: “We want to help organizations use data and technology to do their jobs, be more effective and make lives better,” explains Dan O’Neil, executive director of Smart Chicago (pictured at left). “Our objective is…
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Design Thinking Sessions for Knight Community information Challenge, San Mateo, CA
This weekend I participated in a Knight Community information Challenge at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. I learned a lot about how to interview subject matter experts. Also, this means I had to miss ORD Camp 🙁
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Photos for Mikva Challenge Annual Report
I supplied the cover photo and additional images for the Mikva Challenge 2014 Annual Report.
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Writing: Toward a Market Approach for Civic Innovation section of Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions
Today marks the publication of “Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions; Digital technologies and the future of cities”. Here’s the book blurb: Can today’s city govern well if its citizens lack modern technology? How important is access to computers for lowering unemployment? What infrastructure does a city have to build in order to attract new…
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Reference: In Re: Pacer
The work of Smart Chicago was referenced today in Carl Malamud’s “In Re: Pacer“, a “National Strategy of Litigation, Supplication, and Agitation” RED, WHITE, & BLUE TEAMS: Metaphors Working for a Better AmericaMAY 1 —“LawDay”—Proposed as a National Day of PACER Protest Snip: My hope is that groups will gather together and focus on a…