Author: Daniel X. O’Neil
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Beyond Transparency
I contributed a chapter to this book, subtitled, “Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation”. Here it is on Amazon:
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List: Chicago Tech 50
Today I was featured as one of “50 people in technology you should know” in Crain’s Chicago Business.
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Panel: How To Use Twitter To Improve Public Health
Today I participated in a great panel discussion about Twitter and public health. Here’s the view from the stage: Here’s a description from the Social Media Week website: People Tweet about medical problems 4 days before they see a doctor. Most don’t know they can report food poisoning to the city. Most food poisoning cases…
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Panel: City Data & Social: Data is changing the relationship between cities & their citizens
Today I participated in a panel for Social Media Week with Danielle DuMerer and Scott Robbin. Moderated by Jordan Ho. Here’s teh description: We all know data is important, but how does it affect our lives with respect to our cities and how does it affect the way cities make decisions? The Open Data movement…
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Presentation: Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program: Engaging Chicago’s Leaders for the 21st Century
Today I made a presentation today to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program that covered the infrastructure work of Smart Chicago. Here it is.
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Television: #CivicSummer Segment on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
This evening I took part in a segment on Chicago Tonight about the Smart Chicago #CivicSummer program. Here’s their take on the show and here’s a complete view of the video of the show: civicsummer from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.
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Television: “Helpful Hackers” Story of Fox 32 Chicago
Tonight I helped do a spot on Fox 32 9 o’clock news on the civic hacking community here in Chicago. Hackers use their skills to make Chicago more “user-friendly” FOX 32 Chicago News Story: Hackers use their skills to make Chicago more `user-friendly` from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s the Rap Genius annotation for…
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News Story: Hackers Called Into Civic Duty
Today I was reffedd in a story in the Wall Street Journal covering the great work of civic hackers in Chicago: Hackers Called Into Civic DutyChicago, Other Cities Work With Programmers to Leverage Data Troves for Public Purpose Snip: “People still think hacking is getting people’s credit-card numbers from J.C. Penney,” said Daniel X. O’Neil,…
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News Story: Food-poisoning tweets get just desserts
Here’s some coverage of the Foodborne Chicago project today. The main story was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune: Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up: Health authorities seek out sickened Chicagoans, ask them to report restaurants. It was a very complete story, with detailed custom graphics on the process we follow to manage incoming tweets: The…
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Education: The End of Our First #CivicSummer
Today marked the end of the first 6-week #CivicSummer program at Smart Chicago. Here’s a short description of the program: Civic Innovation Summer is an experimental summer jobs program for teens focused on civics, media, and technology. The program, run in July and August of 2013, includes more than 140 Chicago teens being trained to…