The Sunlight Foundation’s Sunlight Labs is hiring a software developer to help them build tools to increase government transparency and reporting of government data. They’re also doing blind screening in order to try and recruit a more diverse team. We spoke with Sunlight Lab’s Director Tom Lee to learn more.
We’re gearing up for National Day of Civic Hacking and we’re pleased to announce that several more events have been posted right here in Chicago. We’ve got all the events right here, plus our speakers for the event in the Chicago loop!
The Smart Chicago Collaborative is proud to launch our latest version of the Chicago Health Atlas. Last fall, Smart Chicago conducted user testing on the Chicago Health Atlas. Out of those results, there were several points made on what we could improve. The main one being that it was difficult to find health resources on the site. We’ve taken the feedback from the test and used it as a basis to improve the new site. Here’s a rundown of the new features:
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 to unite us in a community discussion about our future and the issues important to you.
We would like to meet new people who are interested in using technology to make lives better in Chicago. Everyone means everyone. If you have never been to 1871 and are interested in technology helping people, please fill out this form to join Smart Chicago for lunch on this important day! We only have a few spots so we can keep this group small and have an in-depth conversation.
If you are interested in learning more about participating in other ways, visit On the Table.
Ben Balter and Arfon Smith from GitHub will talk about their efforts to make government tech more transparent and accountable by using open source workflows like GitHub.
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GitHub’s Government Evangelist Ben Balter dropped by OpenGov Hack Night on May 6th to talk about how GitHub and open source software are changing the government does business.
