For the next few Tuesdays, we will be excerpting 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,…
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On the Launch of Expunge.io
We host a lot of apps at Smart Chicago through our Developer Resources program. In many instances, we get a request, fire up an EC2 instance, and the site is off and running. In other instances, we provide hours of behind-the-scenes technical…
Knight Prototype Fund Grant Awarded to Joe Olson to be Administered by Smart Chicago
Today the Knight Foundation awarded a Prototype Fund award to Joe Olson, one of the developers of Foodborne Chicago, to “develop strategies to engage with targeted communities currently being missed through Chicago’s Twitter-based food poisoning incident detection system.” Smart Chicago,…
Join us for the PDF Liberation & OSM Hackathon on January 18 and 19
The Smart Chicago Collaborative will host the Chicago location for the PDF Liberation Hackathon 2014 at the offices of the Chicago Community Trust from Saturday, January 18, 2014 from 9AM – 5PM CST and Sunday, January 19, 2014 from 9AM – 1PM CST. We’re…
Smart Chicago 2013 – Year in Review
Smart Chicago Collaborative had a very busy 2013 year. Here’s a look back.
GovJobs: City of Chicago Mayoral Fellowships in Technology
The City of Chicago technology fellowships for this summer are now posted. Take a look! Data science: https://chicago.taleo.net/careersection/100/jobdetail.ftl?job=60280 Java developer: https://chicago.taleo.net/careersection/100/jobdetail.ftl?job=60220 Web designer: https://chicago.taleo.net/careersection/100/jobdetail.ftl?job=60260
