At Techweek, City of Chicago Chief Information Officer Brenna Berman announced an 18-month update to Chicago’s Tech Plan. Chicago’s first Tech Plan was first launched in 2013 and laid out a strategy to establish Chicago as a national and global center of…
Today Denise Linn joins the Smart Chicago Collaborative as the Program Analyst. She will manage citywide ecosystem initiatives like Connect Chicago and the Chicago School of Data. Denise comes to us from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she completed her Master…
This week we’ve got three civic tech events happening in Chicago. Cook County at Chi Hack Night Tuesday at 6:00pm at Braintree (8th floor of Merchandise Mart) Cook County employees will be presenting at Chi Hack Night about their progress…
Last week I spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum about the Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team, open data, and what we should do as practitioners of civic tech and members of society. Here’s a video: And here are…
Today I was on a panel at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar along with colleagues from three other foundations, along with the Chicago Community Trust, who have formed a cohort doing work around the principles of design thinking. We’ve…
Please join us on May 22nd to discuss opportunities to improve public and open accessibility data in our community. In particular, we would like to identify ways in which OpenStreetMap, the free, open, and community-built map of the world, can…
