This was a big year for community technology in Chicago. Here’s a month-by-month look at some of the things Smart Chicago has shared, supported, and accomplished in 2015. January: Smart Chicago Model Featured at the Gigabit City Summit Smart Chicago…
Over the past three and a half years, I’ve been a consultant for the Smart Chicago Collaborative helping with research, writing, and manage events, Chicago’s National Day of Civic Hacking, the CivicWorks Project, and helping to organize and document the Chi…
The Mission of Chicago Defender Charities, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for African Americans through educational, cultural and social programs. Chicago Defender Charities runs a number of events throughout the year, the most famous of which is…
Last week I spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum about the Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team, open data, and what we should do as practitioners of civic tech and members of society. Here’s a video: And here are…
One of the problems that we sometimes encounter in the technology space is that we say things like, “Oh, just use this piece of software that I assume you know about.” It’s the digital equivalent of watching a home improvement…
Today I was on a panel at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar along with colleagues from three other foundations, along with the Chicago Community Trust, who have formed a cohort doing work around the principles of design thinking. We’ve…
