Category: Community technology
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Board chair at City Bureau
Today I was elected board chair of City Bureau, a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public. City Bureau is a wonder. The four founders have built an amazing…
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On The Table Event: Surveillance in Chicago, at the Burger King on South Pulaski Road
Today I hosted an event. Here’s how I described it on the Smart Chicago website: I have been a member of the On The Table Steering Committee since its inception. I am very proud of my connection to this central community engagement model for The Chicago Community Trust, my employer and the place where Smart…
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Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force
Today marks the publication of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve“. I served on the Early Intervention & Personnel Concerns working group, and helped develop this recommendation: publish, on a monthly basis, aggregate data on the following: new and pending complaints by unit,…
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CUTGroup Book
Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech documents a methodology I invented while I was Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative. The model has been implemented in about a dozen cities across the United States.
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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…
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Award: IPRA Community Service
On Wednesday I got an award from SWSRA, the Southwest Special recreation Association, for community service. I’ve done their website for a couple years now. Extremely nice people doing great things.