Civic Innovation in Chicago

Bringing together government, developers, journalists, and nonprofits to better understand data and use it to solve community problems.

Smart Chicago is the lead on the Civic Innovation in Chicago project, which brings together government, developers, journalists, and nonprofits to better understand data and use it to solve community problems.

The project is funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge grant provided jointly by the Knight Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust.

The project has five top-level goals:

  • Work with government entities to make more public data available
  • Create an online publication providing news and analysis on open government
  • Help government agencies to use their own data to improve public services
  • Engage non-profit organizations on efforts to find community solutions that are based on public data and data collected by their own organizations
  • Identify technology solutions benefiting government performance and community solutions that can be sustained by the private markets

Stay tuned for more!