Author: Daniel X. O’Neil
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Judge: Digital Media and Learning Competition Trust Challenge
Today marks the announcement of the winners of the Trust Challenge. Here’s their description: The Trust Challenge has awarded a total of $1.2 million to thirteen projects that will foster trust in online learning environments. Winning projects, evaluated by a panel of interdisciplinary thought leaders, were selected for their ability to advance trust, privacy, and equity…
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Radio: Tech Shift: What does Chicago’s Homan Square say about Chicago’s open data?
Today I talked on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift about the need for people-focused, not data-focused civic tech. Here’s a description: If you go to the city’s data portal, you’ll find a database of more than 5 million crimes reported in the city since 2001. It’s one of the largest sets of its kind in the country,…
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Award: CUTGroup is an Ash Center Bright Idea 2015
The Civic User Testing Group, a program I invented at Smart Chicago, was recognized today as an Ash Center Bright Idea 2015.
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Interview: “Hacking Design Research” In Civic Quarterly
Today I did an interview with Civic Quarterly, a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking. Here’s a snip: AM: The CUTGroup book feels like a great example of “designing in the open,” sharing everything your team’s learned thus far—warts and all. How much of the existing design literature formed the basis of…
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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…
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Boards: Joining the Sunlight Foundation Board of Directors
Today I joined the board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysisand journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all. Snip: Daniel X. O’Neil is an open data and open government advocate and the executive…