Jerry Paffendorf from Loveland will be talking about the amazing work his outfit has been doing in Detroit, from opening up the Motor City’s property data through Why Don’t We Own This, to fighting blight by helping residents buy vacant properties from local governments, to surveying every single property in the city through their Blexting app.
We’ll begin our live coverage at 6:15 right on this blog post!
On April 29th, we heard from Danny Burke and Daniel Evans from Experimental Station will talk about the 61st Street Farmers Market including their food access programs around food stamps, value incentives, table counts and consumer behavior within the context of food justice on the south and west sides of Chicago.
On April 9, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released data on the amount and type of billing that individual doctors and institutions submitted to the Medicare program in 2012. Medicare pays for health care services to most persons aged 65 years or more and to persons who have a disability.
We have extracted the 8,104 records for “physicians and other suppliers” found in the database and with an address in Chicago. (A separate database contains inpatient and outpatient charges of institutions such as hospitals.) This file may be viewed and downloaded by clicking here. Some highlights of the data are as follows.
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, Zach Borders will tell us about Civic ArtWorks, a company dedicated to empowering citizens and providing them with the tools to become more engaged in the design processes that shape the future of their neighborhood.
Come learn about the work they are doing in communities as large as Chicago and as small as Plainfield and hear about their work in communications, data analysis, and visualization.
Our live coverage will begin at 6:15pm right here on this blog post!
Smart Chicago Collaborative will be hosting a lunch as part of On the Table on Monday, May 12, 2014 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM CST at 1871. Our founding partner, The Chicago Community Trust is marking its 99th birthday with this region-wide event happening on May 12. We’ll be live streaming our lunch here!
Join us this morning at the Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee.
Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee
James R. Thompson Center 100 W. Randolph St.
Ste. 3-400 (Director’s Conference Room)
Chicago, IL 60601
Monday, May 12, 2014 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Meeting Agenda
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Committee Meeting Minutes from February 10, 2014 meeting
III. Program Update
IV. Other Business/Public Comment
V. Adjournment
If you can’t make it today, the next two meetings are as follows:
