Today we’re launching a website and book, The CUTGroup Book, http://www.cutgroupbook.org/, centered around propagating the components, tools, and methods of our Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) program. The CUTGroup is a set of regular Chicago residents who get paid to test civic…
This week is a great week for civic innovation—the Code for America Summit in San Francisco is here. Smart Chicago will be there in force. I will be there, as well as consultants Christopher Whitaker and Josh Kalov. (Along with about a dozen…
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Big update on our CivicWorks Project— it has been extended and we’re getting lots more work done. The Civic Works Project (formerly known as the Civic Innovation in Chicago project) is program funded by the Knight Foundation and the Chicago Community…
The Smart Chicago Collaborative has a partnership with the Cook County Bureau of Technology to assist them in the creation and publication of open data in the context of the County’s Open Data Ordinance and Open Government Plan. It’s been about six months…
I spoke at City Club on Monday, September 8, 2014. Here’s a video: Daniel X. O’Neil, Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative from City Club of Chicago on Vimeo. Here’s the slides: The Need for Investment in the Digital Lives of…
