Ben Balter and Arfon Smith from GitHub will talk about their efforts to make government tech more transparent and accountable by using open source workflows like GitHub. Watch Live Below:
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GitHub’s Ben Balter at OpenGov Hack Night
GitHub’s Government Evangelist Ben Balter dropped by OpenGov Hack Night on May 6th to talk about how GitHub and open source software are changing the government does business.
An Incomplete List of Chicago Civic Technology Groups
As part of our work, the Smart Chicago Collaborative makes a lot of introductions. Chicago has a deep bench of civic innovation talent with multiple organizations working in tandem to use the power of technology to help solve problems. There…
OpenGov Hack Night: Building a Vision for a Transit Future (Part 2)
This presentation was rather long, so we’ve split this into two posts. The first one has to do with the Transit Future policy itself. This post is about the process used to build the Transit Future site. On the April…
Damaged Vehicle Claim = Civic Engagement
Lots of people in my professional life talk about “civic engagement”. Everybody seems to want it. Fran Spielman reports in today’s Sun-Times that the City Clerk’s office had received over 3,100 damage claims due to potholes. That’s thousands of people engaging. While…
OpenGov Hack Night: Building a vision for a transit future (Part One)
This presentation was rather long-ish, so we’ve split this into two posts. The first one has to do with the Transit Future policy itself. On the April 15th OpenGov Hack Night, Ed Oser with Center for Neighborhood Technologies and OpenCity…