Category: Panel Discussion
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PANEL: Turning Data into Narrative at “The Story & The Algorithm: 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference”
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. Here’s my bit: PANEL: Turning Data Into Narrative from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s relevant snips from the conference live blog: Dan O’Neil is the Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, which funds and fosters civic and municipal innovation. Next…
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Panel: Urban Systems Collaborative
Today I worked with John Tolva to lead an interactive session on improving information systems within and between the various actors and sectors that make up a city at the Urban Systems Collaborative meeting at the Metropolitan Planning Council. Here’s the full agenda for the day: 8:50 Welcome – Colin Harrison, IBM 9:00 Plenary…
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PANEL: LISC Chicago Five Big Ideas
Today I took part in a panel for the 18th annual LISC Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards. The panel was called “5 Big Ideas” and the format was 5 ideas expressed in 15 images on 15 slides for 15 seconds each. I used images from my own Flickr account and I was pretty pleased with how…
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PANEL: Illinois Government Transparency Conference
Today I participated in a panel discussion on the state of transparency in Illinois. Here’s the packet associated with the conference. When we went around to throw out the problems that need solving, the one I focused on was the fact that there is little to no true collaboration among all parties. That is to…
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PANEL: Ezio Manzini Lecture on Social Innovation
Tonight I participated in a panel discussion following a lecture by Ezio Manzini, a leading expert on desgin and sustainability titled, “”Small Projects, Large Changes: Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions”. It was great to see someone pull together the many threads we’ve seen in city life around cooperative development, hacking the infrastructure, and generally making things…
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White House Champion of Change for Open Innovation
Today I was honored to be a part of the White House Champions of Change event at the White House. Here’s the White House coverage of the event:Here is a blog post I wrote this morning, with an excerpt description of the event: You have been selected by United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra…
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PANEL:”Why Open Data?”at Data 2.0
Today I participated in a panel at the Data 2.0 conference in San Francisco titled, “Why Open Data?“. Governments have started opening data for many reasons: it is a politically positive action and it alleviates the responsibility of analyzing and interpreting the data internally. Social Networks open data so they can become more valuable as…
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PANEL: Gov 2.0 at midVentures Launch
Today I took part in a panel discussion focused on how the Gov 2.0 movement provides opportunity for business.
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PANEL: “Covering The City”at the Great Cities Institute at UIC
Today I participated in a panel discussion about urban reporting and research. Here’s a flyer for the event:Covering the City Complete audio of the panel here and links to the intro and Q&A.
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Entrepreneur Idol Judge
Today I helped decide the winners of Northwestern University’s Entrepreneur Idol contest. Lots of great entrants! Koo