The Connect Chicago Summer of Data is almost over. 14 canvassers travelled the city to visit more than 200 Public Computer Centers and Community Technology Centers. They interviewed center staff, updated detail pages, and took many, many photos. We outfitted each…
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Cory Nissen and Joe Olson in Food Safety News re: Foodborne Chicago
More than 70 complaints have been submitted since Foodborne Chicago’s April launch, but not all submissions were driven through Twitter interactions. “Outside of Twitter, a lot of people are finding this form randomly as a way of logging an incident…
Fox 32 News Covers Chicago Civic Hacking Community
Tonight Fox 32 9 o’clock news did a story on the civic hacking community here in Chicago. Great stuff, including extensive coverage of OpenGov Hack Night and the presentation about a possible app for restaurant workers. Hackers use their skills…
Smart Chicago in the Wall Street Journal
Today Smart Chicago was featured, along with many others, in a story in the Wall Street Journal covering the great work of civic hackers in Chicago: Hackers Called Into Civic Duty Chicago, Other Cities Work With Programmers to Leverage Data…
Foodborne Chicago in the News
Here’s some coverage of the Foodborne Chicago project today. The main story was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune: Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up: Health authorities seek out sickened Chicagoans, ask them to report restaurants. It was a very complete…
Tonight: Social Justice + Civic Technology
There’s a lot of action in the world of civic innovation here in Chicago. Just today, Foodborne Chicago was the cover story for the Red Eye and the focus of a front-page news story in the Tribune and there’s a Wall…
