This afternoon Smart Chicago hosted a roundtable discussion with Yoani Sanchez, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2014 Gus Hart Fellow. We talked about her new site, 14ymedio and the importance of jump drives in places with limited access to the Internet.
Year: 2014
Livestream: OpenScience Chicago
Join us at 6PM Central time for a livestream of the OpenGovChicago meetup on Open Science. The stream will be available right here in this blog post. Also, please help with the meeting minutes— it’s a group effort!
This is a special fun-time summer meetup where we mashup two high-energy Chicago groups: our own OpenGovChicago and the Hive Learning Network. The Smart Chicago Collaborative is a member of the Hive, which is a network of civic and cultural institutions dedicated to transforming the learning landscape by creating opportunities for youth to explore interests through connected learning experiences. We’re a part of two projects this summer, and we seek to cross-pollinate all of the great people we work with. Let’s do this!
More on the meetup:
The Open Science Cooperative is an extension of the Hive Mapping Cooperative, a 2014 Hive Learning Network project.
We will have representatives from The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Sweet Water Foundation, Freedom Games, and theForest Preserve District of Cook County to talk about their efforts to provide teens the ability to collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and share geo-referenced data through open-source mapping and data-sharing software.
The aim of this meetup is to share work to date and to connect with the larger open data/ open technology community. This is an ambitious project focused on open source tools for mapping and data collection. The OpenGov movement has much to share on these fronts, and we hope for great cross-pollination on this night!
Live stream coverage and live tweeting will begin at 6:15pm on this very blog post!
Livestream: OpenGovChicago > Open Science!
Join us at 6PM Central time for a livestream of the OpenGovChicago meetup on Open Science. The stream will be available right here in this blog post. Also, please help with the meeting minutes— it’s a group effort!
This is a special fun-time summer meetup where we mashup two high-energy Chicago groups: our own OpenGovChicago and the Hive Learning Network. The Smart Chicago Collaborative is a member of the Hive, which is a network of civic and cultural institutions dedicated to transforming the learning landscape by creating opportunities for youth to explore interests through connected learning experiences. We’re a part of two projects this summer, and we seek to cross-pollinate all of the great people we work with. Let’s do this!
More on the meetup:
The Open Science Cooperative is an extension of the Hive Mapping Cooperative, a 2014 Hive Learning Network project.
We will have representatives from The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Sweet Water Foundation, Freedom Games, and theForest Preserve District of Cook County to talk about their efforts to provide teens the ability to collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and share geo-referenced data through open-source mapping and data-sharing software.
The aim of this meetup is to share work to date and to connect with the larger open data/ open technology community. This is an ambitious project focused on open source tools for mapping and data collection. The OpenGov movement has much to share on these fronts, and we hope for great cross-pollination on this night!
Hack Night Live! Tracking the Built Environment with Building Permits
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, we’ll have two speakers.
Tina Fassett from the DePaul Institute for Housing Studies will discuss her analysis of demolitions in Chicago from 2004 to 2012.
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Steve Vance will talk about Licensed Chicago Contractors, his project to track and notify people about new construction updates in Chicago.
We’ll start our live coverage at 6:15pm right here on this blog post!
Englewood.codes builds their own IDE with the Help of North Central College
At the OpenGov Hack Night on June 3rd, Englewood Codes and North Central College presented their work on an integrated developer environment for Englewood students to use during their program.
Code for America Announces Midwest Brigade to be HQ’d at Smart Chicago, led by Christopher Whitaker
Code for America and the Smart Chicago Collaborative are pleased to announce that the Midwest has been selected for the first Code for America Regional Brigade Program. The Midwest Regional Brigade program will support existing Code for America brigade cities as well as work to expand the number of brigade cities in the region. The program will be led by Smart Chicago consultant and current Chicago Brigade Captain Christopher Whitaker and will be headquartered at the Smart Chicago Collaborative.
Christopher Whitaker will lead the Midwest Regional Brigade program, photo by Angel Kittiyachavalit
