Category: Government
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IBM Smarter Cities Chicago Leadership Forum
Today I took part in an IBM Smarter Cities event. There were some great speakers, including economist Diane Swonk.She spoke for an hour w/o notes about the macro and micro-economy, especially in the Chicago area. She is an amazing person. Here is her 9/11 story: http://www.nabe.com/am2001/swonkstory.htm. Her talk focused on big data sets, but each…
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LEGISLATION: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: City Council keeping info in TIF funds in black hole
Here’s an editorial in today’s Sun-Times.www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1488786,CST-EDT-edit22b….March 22, 2009It was a modest proposal. Two aldermen, Manny Flores and Scott Waguespack, suggested shedding some light on the city’s TIF district deals by putting information on the Internet.TIF stands for tax increment financing, but as we have explained before, this is what they really are: Mayor Daley’s private…
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LEGISLATION: Statement before the Joint Committee on Finance and Committee Economic, Capital and Technology Development of the Chicago City Council
Here’s my testimony at City Hall today in favor of the “Sunshine TIF Ordinance” proposed by Alderman Scott Waguespack and Alderman Manny Flores: Statement re: Chicago Sunshine TIF Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil Here’s the ordinance itself: Tif Sunshine Final Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil
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Radio Interview: WBEZ 848:”ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web”
Here’s the audio from the interview I did this morning on WBEZ, the public radio station here in Chicago: ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web
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“How to Get Data” Session at CityCamp
Today Harper Reed and I did a session on data hawking at CityCamp. Fun stuff.
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Columbia Journalism Review:”A See-Through Society”
Here’s a great article by Micah Sifry that has a pretty long take on Chicago Works For You:www.cjr.org/feature/a_see-through_society.php?page=all People are eager for access to information, and public officials who try to stand in the way will discover that the Internet responds to information suppression by routing around the problem. Consider the story of a site…
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Presentation: Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget: “The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government”
Here’s a presentation I made today to the Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget about open government. Intergovernmental Advisory Board Webinar: The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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PRESS: Lost in the PDFs: Getting City Data in the Gotham Gazette
This month my work was featured in an article about civic data in the Gotham Gazette: EveryBlock.com, which compiles information from agencies of several cities and presents it in a friendly format, has been trying to provide New York City residents with detailed information about crime. To get the statistics for New York, EveryBlock’s “people…
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Independent Government Observers Task Force
I helped organize and participated in the Independent Government Observers Task Force Municipal Governments (Working Group Chair: Daniel X. O’Neil). This group will focus on issues involved in citizens attempting to build interfaces around municipal government data. Technical issues such as harvesting techniques and presentation techniques will be covered, as will social issues such as…
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Radio interview: BBC: Mapping Crime: Lessons from Chicago”
Here’s a pretty lengthy BBC interview of Adrian & me about crime data in the United States.