At OpenGovChicago this year, we’ve been focusing on learning about and helping grassroots groups that interact with official government functions. This time the focus was on Chicago Public Schools and Local School Councils. Local School Councils were first created in 1988 from…
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CUTGroup Presentation at Terry Mazany’s Social Enterprise Class at Northwestern University
Tonight Sonja Marziano presented at The Chicago Community Trust President & CEO Terry Mazany’s Special Topics: Social Enterprise class at Northwestern University. Here’s what we showed: CUTGroup Presentation for Social Enterprise Class at Northwestern University from Smart Chicago Collaborative
Crime, Data, Justice
I have worked worked with a lot of crime data from a lot of cities, going back almost 10 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of colleagues to get more crime data published, make apps based on crime data, and to…
Toward a Municipal Ping Service
The death of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) has made the Web less fluid. This is not a good thing. The good thing is that American cities are uniquely positioned to make a dent in this trend. The popularity of this…
CUTGroup is an Ash Center Bright Idea 2015
Today the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, recognized today our CUTGroup program as part of the 2015 Bright Ideas program. Here’s their citation: Civic User Testing Group City of…
Smart Chicago and the Concept of “Patient Centered”
We have a number of health programs here at Smart Chicago, all of which are run by my colleague, Kyla Williams. In working on these projects, I’ve come across a number of intriguing concepts, just like one would in any sub-speciality.…
