As part of our Justice program, The Smart Chicago Collaborative, along with a number of friends from around the nation, is conducting a cards + letters campaign to ask Chief Judge Ruben Castillo of the United States District Court of…
Our own Christopher Whitaker will be giving a keynote speech in Tokyo this weekend at the Civic Tech Forum. The Civic Tech Forum is a billed as a place to talk about resolving regional issues through the hands of citizens who take advantage of the…
Today we’re launching a new partnership with the Center for Technology & Civic Life, a non-partisan, non-profit that uses technology to improve the way local governments and communities interact. Three of their key team members— have recently moved to Chicago from Washington, DC:…
Here’s a story in the Chicago Tribune about the proposed cuts in state funding for the Eliminate the Digital Divide grant program: Proposed Illinois budget threatens digital literacy program. Here’s a snip related to the impact of the proposed cuts in Chicago:…
Today, 18F launched an analytics dashboard for government websites and opened sourced both the dashboard and the app they use to collect the data from Google Analytics. The data comes from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. federal government agencies…
This morning, Wednesday, March 11, 2015, at 10AM, I will be chairing a meeting of the Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee in the Director’s Conference Room of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) in Suite 3-400 of the State of Illinois…
