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Category: News story

  • News article: Proposed Illinois budget threatens digital literacy program

    Here’s an article from today in the Chicago Tribune about funding for community technology centers. Snip: Dan O’Neil, an advisory committee member who also is executive director of Smart Chicago Collaborative, whose mission is to increase Internet access, said at the meeting that he believes funding should be doubled. See also this post I wrote on…

  • News Article: “The Responsive City: Chicago”

    Here’s an article from this month’s Broadband Communities magazine by Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford  of Harvard University about Smart Chicago’s work with SWOP in collecting neighborhood-level building information for use in collaborative decision-making. Here’s a snip: SWOP, O’Neil’s team realized, could use this app to digitize its processes for tracking neglected properties. LocalData gave Smart…

  • Foodborne Chicago

    Here’s an article about the product: One Year After Launch, Foodborne Chicago Continues to Enhance Food SafetyCity’s online food reporting app turns one Foodborne Chicago identifies public tweets from residents and visitors about food poisoning, then replies privately, providing assistance for the individual to file an online complaint through 311. An alert is then sent automatically…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • News Story: “Open Data Victories Come to Illinois”

    Here’s an article from Government Technology Magazine about new legislation here in Illinois. Snip: The real challenge around open data thus far, according to Daniel O’Neil, executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, has been the lack of a central figure who can organize everyone around a common goal that already enjoys widespread support. “I…

  • News story: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps

    Here’s a story about the CUTGroup in today’s Chicago Tribune. Harris: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps July 7. 2013 Daniel O’Neil of the Smart Chicago Collaborative aims to engage city residents in the process of building civic-minded technology Daniel O’Neil is one of the founders of Everyblock. The now shuttered hyperlocal news website was…

  • New Story: Emanuel to nominate Brenna Berman to be city’s chief information officer

    Today Smart Chicago was reffed in this article about Mayor Emanuel’s appointment of Brenna Berman to be CIO for the City of Chicago. Snip: DoIT is working with groups such as the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a tech-focused civic backed by the city, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust.…

  • Radio: FoodBorne Chicago on WBEZ Morning Shift

    Today I spoke with Tony Sarabia of the WBEZ Morning Shift about Foodborne Chicago. Here’s the sound. Listen all the way to the end for a pretty wacky bumper tune. Here’s a selfie video of the show in-studio: DXO on WBEZ for FoodBorne Chicago from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.

  • News Story: Courting Suburban Civic Hackers in Illinois (Tech President)

    Today TechPresident covered the Illinois Open Technology Challenge: Courting Suburban Civic Hackers in Illinois. Snip: “In each one of these places government people and developers for the first time … have been in the same room together,” said Daniel X. O’Neil, the executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative who gains his civic hacking cred, in…