Category: Speaking
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SPEAKING: Civic Data Chit-Chat at School of the Art Institute
Today I spoke at George Aye’s “Living In A Smart City” classroom at the AIADO department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here’s the premise of the course: Our premise:When a city can gather data on every aspect of it’s citizens activities, what should we do with it? What products, services and…
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Remarks: MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards
Tonight I gave some remarks on behalf of my colleague, Harper Reed, who received the Data Innovation Award at the MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards for his work on the Chicago Transit API. Basically I just said that we have to fuck shit up right about now.
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“Outstanding Effort” Certificate for Teaching CCD
Out here.
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Presentation:”Hacking the City”at A+DEN National Conference
Today I spoke at the 2009 A+DEN National Conference with my colleague John Tolva. John gave a devastatingly comprehensive take on how read/write data will transform how we interact with our cities. My portion focused on various civic projects. Here’s the description from the program: Tolva and O’Neil will discuss city spaces as platforms that…
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PANEL: Chicago Future of Media Conference
I took part in a panel called, “How do people consume the news, and what do they do with it?”. Here’s some video: Here’s Michael Miner’s take, and a little follow-up I wrote.
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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…