The Smart Chicago Collaborative, the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, the State of Illinois and the City of Rockford are pleased to announce the winners of the Illinois OpenTech Challenge. The Illinois OpenTech Challenge for Rockford consisted of three challenges.…
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Illinois Public Health Datapalooza and a $10k Challenge
For the second day of the “Making Public Health Data Work in Illinois” event, Smart Chicago helped to MC a Datapalooza event that brought together technologists and health care practitioners to put into practice the ideas discussed on day one.…
Making Public Health Data Work in Illinois Day 1 Roundup
This past weekend, health care policy makers, practitioners, and technologists gathered together at 1871 to talk about how we could make public health data work here in Illinois. The event was hosted by a number of partners including the Health…
Call to Action: Help OSM map areas hit by Typhoon Haiyan
While we’ve featured OpenStreetMap before, what you may not know is the important role they play during disasters. During a disaster, the Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) activates to help coordinate mapping of disaster areas. These activities include mapping out roads,…
Live Stream: City Technology Plan Review
On October 30th at 6:00pm – Smart Chicago will be live streaming the OpenGov Chicago meetup where we’ll review the City’s Technology Plan below:
Health Datapalooza: Deep dive into health data
In preparation for the Illinois Health Datapalooza, we wanted to take a deep dive into the different kinds of health data already available to developers at the state, local, and federal level. A big part of the datapalooza will be…
