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Demond Drummer joins Smart Chicago as Managing Director of the Smart Chicago Challenge
January 12th, 2015
Today Demond Drummer joins the Smart Chicago Collaborative as the Managing Director of the Smart Chicago Challenge, a plan to make Chicago the most dynamic digital city in the world. Demond comes to us from Teamwork Englewood, where he has been a Tech Organizer. As part of his work there in the Smart Communities[more]
Catch Tracy Siska on WBEZ's Morning Shift
January 5th, 2015
Tracy Siska, one of our partners in our Convicted in Cook Project, will be on WBEZ's Morning Shift this morning, Monday, January 5, 2015, to talk about the project. You can listen live here! [more]
2014 Year in Review
December 31st, 2014
Here's a month-by-month look at some of the things we've done this year. January - The Launch of Expunge.io Expunge.io is a great example of how community organizing is just as important part of what we do as the coding aspect of our work. The idea for the app came out of[more]
The Participatory Approach to Open Data
December 29th, 2014
In the beginning, government data was stored on pieces of parchment and kept in bureau. Only the government employees knew where all the documents were thus giving us the word: bureaucrat. Today, government is different. Now cities across the country are putting government data on data portals that can be accessed[more]
Incomplete List of Apps Using the Open311 API in Chicago
December 26th, 2014
It's been years since the City of Chicago launched their implementation of Open311, a standard for reading and writing 311 service requests. Here's an incomplete, idiosyncratic list of apps that are currently using the City of Chicago Open311 API. If you know of one that I don't have listed here, please[more]
The Next Connect Chicago Meetup is January 30
December 26th, 2014
RSVP Please join us at our first meetup luncheon of 2015. Erin Simpson , Public Policy Student at the University of Chicago & Civic Tech Fellow at Microsoft, will talk about her research of Connect Chicago locations. Digital Dividends: Assessing the Use & Impact of Free Public Computer Labs in Chicago This analysis seeks to[more]
Focus on ecosystem: #CivicSummer
December 24th, 2014
Here's an article focusing on our #CivicSummer work: Civic tech powers youth activism in Chicago: How #CivicSummer builds leadership with tech and action The article is wrtiten by Jason Tashea, who is one of the people who helped pull together Expunge Maryland. He really understands the value of deep youth work supporting apps of[more]
New Dataset from the City Clerk's Office: Residential Parking Zones
December 18th, 2014
This morning, Susana Mendoza, the City Clerk of Chicago, is set to release a new dataset to the City's data portal: residential parking zone data. Here’s a link: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Parking-Permit-Zones/u9xt-hiju. The data provides the starting and end points of all street segments that the City Council has designated as parking for residents. This[more]
