Category: Government
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CMS WDS Contract Award: $58M
Today Ad Hoc was awarded Contract HHSM500201600124G for CMS WDS, a project that supports 15 products that help make up HealthCare.gov. I managed the response, including drafting documents, estimating effort, and helping build the team structure. I will also serve as the Senior Program Manager for the program. Here’s a copy of the award as retrieved from…
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CMS ADELE BPA Prime Contract for $19.9M
Today Ad Hoc was one of six firms awarded a prime contract on the 5-year BPA for Agile Delivery to Execute Legislative Endeavors for Quality Related Initiatives (ADELE-QRI). I led the response process for this Request For Quote— compiling past performance information, helping draft and edit the Technical Approach to Agile Methodology, and setting BPA pricing.
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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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Launch: OpenGrid at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Today I helped launch OpenGrid— a free, browser-based, open source mapping platform displaying Chicago’s robust collection of open datasets. Here’s a set of photos I took: My role was to take part in the conceptual model of OpenGrid, working with City technology officials to plan the work, and help manage the work of the Smart Chicago…
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Presentation: The Inefficacy of Dots on Maps at Chi Hack Night
Tonight I gave a few remarks at Chi Hack Night #188: Introducing Open Grid. Take a look at the original source video or see the snip below. Here’s how Chris Hagan of WBEZ covered these remarks in his article, “Chicago launches OpenGrid, latest step in making open data more accessible“: Dan O’Neil, executive director of the…
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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…
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City Council Resolution: Recognition extended to Smart Chicago for efforts to promote digital democracy
Today in City Council, Chicago City Clerk Susana A. Mendoza sponsored a resolution that was moved by Edward M. Burke, seconded by John Pope, and passed by the full City Council which resolved that “the Mayor and members of the City Council of the City of Chicago gathered here this tenth day of September 2014, do hereby…
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Panel: Opening Government: From data to action
Today I participated in the closing session of the 2014 Knight Media Learning Seminar. Here’s complete video of the panel, and a summary. And here’s complete text of my opening remarks: Remarks at Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Opening Government: From data to action Hello. I’m Dan O’Neil, and I run…