“Establish a smart community benchmark and toolkit for broadband access and use” is initiative four of the City of Chicago Tech Plan. The Connect Chicago program is an essential component of that initiative. Stephen Alderson, Director of Adult Education at Instituto del Progreso…
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Connect Chicago Toolkit: GCFlearnfree.org
As part of our effort to “Establish a smart community benchmark and toolkit for broadband access and use” we’re highlighting useful tools that teach digital skills. One of the tools used by Wright College to teach digital skills is the the Goodwill…
Connect Chicago Toolkit: Typing Club
“Establish a smart community benchmark and toolkit for broadband access and use” is initiative four of the City of Chicago Tech Plan. the Connect Chicago program is an essential component of that initiative. Rene Paccha works for the Spanish Coalition for Housing…
Smart Chicago Awarded Community Information Challenge Grant from the Knight Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust
Today the Knight Foundation announced an award to Smart Chicago, through their longtime partner and our founder & fiscal agent, The Chicago Community Trust, to “continue to design, build and demonstrate the power of digital tools to the community and…
Connect Chicago Toolkit: YouCanBookMe
“Establish a smart community benchmark and toolkit for broadband access and use” is initiative four of the City of Chicago Tech Plan. the Connect Chicago program is an essential component of that initiative. At our last Connect Chicago meetup, Rene Paccha…
Excerpt, Beyond Transparency, Building a Smarter Chicago: Capital and Products
For the past few Tuesdays, we’ve excerpted sections from Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation“, an anthology edited by Brett Goldstein with Lauren Dyson and published by Code for America. I wrote a chapter titled, “Building a Smarter Chicago“,…
