As we continuing our work with the Chicago School of Data, we wanted to publish another one of our interviews to give people a sense of the information we’re getting. Here’s a partial transcript from our interview with the Chatham Business Association.
At the OpenGov Hack Night on June 4th 2014, Mikva Challenge and the Adler Planetarium presented the projects that came out of the National Day of Civic Hacking at the Adler Planetarium. The group of teens worked on a number of issues including an app that helps homeless LGTB youth find resources and look up student codes of conduct.
The Adler Planetarium and Mikva Challenge have been working together all year hosting different events and coming up with issue briefs about youth owned problems. These topics included:
The group also built a number of apps during National Day of Civic Hacking. Here’s the team talking about their apps below:
App Ideas:
For more information on Mikva Challenge, you can visit their website at http://www.mikvachallenge.org/
This is the second post in a series about takeaways learned from National Day of Civic Hacking in Chicago. These posts will highlight problem sets, current efforts, and how to get involved in future efforts.
At this year’s National Day of Civic Hacking in the Chicago Loop, we had Jim McGowan of the Chicago Area Red Cross describe their work and how it intersects with technology.
In this takeaway post, we’ll describe the problem set, current data, current projects, and possible next steps in creating tools that help to support the work of the Chicago Area Red Cross.
As part of our work with the Chicago School of Data, we’re conducting surveys of organizations that use data in the service of public. We’re doing the survey to get a better understanding of roles, connections, dependencies, and potential collaborations between organizations in the Chicago data ecosystem. As we do the surveys, we’ll be following up with in depth interviews of organizations and do a deep dive discovering & discuss opportunities and to bridge gaps. We’ll present our work at the School of Data Conference on September 19th.
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