ANNOUNCEMENTS Tom Feltner: Woodstock is moving the last 15 years of data to its portal by the end of the year. Licensing restrictions limit what source data can be made public. What aggregate data would be useful and what would be derivative?…
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White House US Ignite Event and What It Means for Chicago
Last month I attended the US Ignite launch event at the White House (see full video here), where a number of Obama administration officials made a series of announcements about programs around broadband policy. There are many entities, technologies, and programs that fit together…
Kick-Starting Civic Innovation Award to The Chicago Community Trust
Today the Knight Foundation made an award to The Chicago Community Trust to “create apps and other tools to help increase the utility of local government data to benefit community organizations and the broader public.” The Trust is matching this…
Mayor Emanuel Opens Tech Week with Remarks About the Smart Chicago Open 311 Project
Here’s a snip from “Rahm’s Latest Accountability Plan: An App That Tracks City Services” on Forbes.com: Mayor Rahm Emanuel will soon unveil an app Chicago residents can use to request city services—and then track the city’s response—he said this morning…
Office Hours With Brett Goldstein, Acting Commissioner (CIO) and Chief Data Officer, Department of Innovation and Technology
One of my favorite things here at Smart Chicago Collaborative is working with technology and policy leadership in City government. There is a renewed energy and sense of focus in the Mayor’s Office and the Department of Innovation and Technology,…
Job Posting: Administrative Assistant
We have a new opening for a team member here at Smart Chicago. You can view the listing on the job portal of your choice (npo.net or idealist) and/or download a PDF of the listing here. This is only the…
