Category: Smart Chicago
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Chicago Tech Plan 18 Month Update
Today the City of Chicago Chief Information Officer Brenna Berman announced an 18-month update to Chicago’s Tech Plan. The work of Smart Chicago is deeply represented in this Tech Plan. Here’s an excerpt from the Smart Chicago blog post about the plan: Civic Innovation A big part of the city’s strategy around civic innovation is supporting the…
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Smart Chicago Model Featured in the Chicago Community Trust Annual Report
Here’s a feature on the work of Smart Chicago in the 2014 Annual Report of the Chicago Community Trust. Here’s a snip: “We want to help organizations use data and technology to do their jobs, be more effective and make lives better,” explains Dan O’Neil, executive director of Smart Chicago (pictured at left). “Our objective is…
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Design Thinking Sessions for Knight Community information Challenge, San Mateo, CA
This weekend I participated in a Knight Community information Challenge at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. I learned a lot about how to interview subject matter experts. Also, this means I had to miss ORD Camp 🙁
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Presentation: CUTGroup at Open Gov Hack Night
Today I gave a presentation at Open Gov Hack Night. Description: Daniel X. O’Neil of the Smart Chicago Collaborative will talk about theCivic User Testing Group, a set of regular Chicago residents who get paid to test out civic apps. Dan and his colleagues will give a brief presentation about the impetus behind the program…
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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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Remarks at Adler Planetarium on the National Day of Civic Hacking
Today I kicked off the National Day of Civic Hacking at the Adler Planetarium. Here’s remarks: Hi everybody. It’s great to see you here at one of the premier places for science in Chicago, the Adler Planeterium. This morning, you are joining thousands of colleagues— and they are your colleagues— in more than 100 cities in…
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Chicago: City of Big Data Pecha Kucha Night
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Launch: City of Big Data Exhibition
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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…
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Presentation: Why We Started the CUTGroup
I made a presentation about the Civic User Testing Group to tonight’s OpenGovChicago meeting, “Methods for Resident Engagement in the Civic Innovation Process“. Here’s a video of that: Here’s an explanatory video: Tools and Processes for Managing the CUTGroup at the Smart Chicago Collaborative from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.