The Smart Chicago Collaborative is hiring an administrative assistant to help us support our work. The Administrative Assistant will help us with coordinating schedules, requests for information, meetings, and events that surround our work. This may sound simple, but as…
Here’s a set of images of Sonja Marziano, Christopher Whitaker, and Josh Kalov conducting CUTGroup #14, which is focused on Chicago Cityscape, a site that tracks building permits, violations, and historic resources in all neighborhoods, community areas, and wards using open data.…
Here’s an interview in Civic Quarterly about the CUTGroup. Snip: Part civic duty, part solicited opinion, Smart Chicago’s CUTGroup is comprised of “regular Chicago residents who get paid to test civic apps.” This, in turn, allows developers to get citizen…
The Connect Chicago website, a resourced maintained by Smart Chicago showing free computer access and digital skills locations across the city, is featured in Putting Learning on the Map: Visualizing Opportunity in 21st Century Communities. Published at New America, an organization “dedicated to the…
Our Chicago School of Data project is highlighted in the 2014 Annual Report of the Chicago Community Trust.…
Here’s a set of images of Sonja Marziano, Christopher Whitaker, Josh Kalov, Rose Afriyie, and Genevieve Nielsen conducting CUTGroup #13, which is focused on mRelief, a site that simplifies the social services qualifying process with an easy-to-use form that can be accessed online…
