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Author: Daniel X. O’Neil

  • Paper: “Making a Smart City a Fairer City”

    Today some of my thoughts on Chicago’s smart cities efforts were published in a paper from Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies: “Making a Smart City a Fairer City: Chicago’s Technologists Address Issues of Privacy, Ethics, and Equity, 2011-2018” Here’s a complete PDF and here’s a snip: Daniel O’Neil, who led the Smart Chicago Collaborative, advised…

  • Comment on FCC Docket 18-120: Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band

    Comment on FCC Docket 18-120: Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band

    Today I filed this comment with the FCC on 2.5 GHz Docket Opening PN Docket No. 18-120: I am Daniel X. O’Neil, a board member of the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation (CITF), which is one part of Voqal, a national collaboration of EBS licensees. CITF has been a steward of an important public resource – EBS…

  • Panel: Facets Town Hall: Building Community in a Fragmented Digital Age

    Today I participated in a town hall discussion at Facets Chicago, “Building Community in a Fragmented Digital Age”. Here’s their description: The explosion of digital and social media has changed our lives. But how do we measure its impact when technology advances at such a dizzying speed? Join us for a special Facets town hall…

  • Voqal Strategic Planning

    Today I took part in a meeting of the Voqal Strategic Planning Committee in Longmont. Much to come!

  • Book Review: Code Swaraj

    Today I wrote a review of Code Swaraj: Field Notes from the Standards Satyagraha by Carl Malamud and Sam Pitroda: Here’s a snip: And then there’s Carl and his colleagues, lecturing across India. They just want to publish standards. And they understand solidarity. When a fire in a Russian shopping mall kills 64 people because of safety violations, and the people of Russia…

  • Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    This week Ad Hoc is at Code for America 2018 with 10 team members, four speaking engagements, one product launch, and one happy hour. I created the approach for the conference, developed content strategies for various elements, and ran operations for the week.

  • Presentation: Alcoholics Anonymous as a Model for Community Technology

    Today I spoke at 8th Light University, where I debuted a talk I’m still working on: “Alcoholics Anonymous as a Model for Community Technology”. Here’s slides: 

  • Publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook

    Today marks the publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook, by Kaitlin Devine and Paul Smith, my colleagues at Ad Hoc. The Ad Hoc Playbook “compiles what we’ve learned from four years of delivering digital services for government clients. Our playbook builds on and extends the Digital Services Playbook by the United States Digital Service.” I…

  • Documentation: Public Health Illustrations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

    Here’s a post I wrote about how a public health department can use local legends. http://www.derivativeworks.com/2018/04/these-public-health-illustrations-by-jack-davis-are-my-current-fascination.html

  • History of The Documenters Program at City Bureau

    Here’s a post from City Bureau founder Andrea Hart about the origins of the Documenters Program, which I co-created with Kyla Williams at Smart Chicago: How Did City Bureau’s Documenters Program Get Started? Snip: The original Documenters Program was created by Daniel X. O’Neil and Kyla Williams at the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic-technology funder collaborative founded in 2011 by…