Previously, we had talked about how to plan and run a civic hacking event. Today, we’re going to go into a little more detail about getting sponsors for your event using resources from Code for America’s Brigade toolkit and asking…
On April 14th, Karl Fogel of Open Tech Strategies and QuestionCopyright.org presented at OpenGov Hack Night on data rebroadcasting and server-side responsibility. Data rebroadcasting is when one datasource posts data from another source. Civic apps tend to do this all of the…
At this week’s OpenGov Hack Night, the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council came and spoke about their work and how they use data to advise policymakers. SPAC was created to collect, analyze and present data from all relevant sources to…
Smart Chicago is partnering with United Cerebral Palsy’s Life Labs to host their 2015 Innovation Labs on May 19 & 20 at the Microsoft Technology Center here in Chicago. United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) educates, advocates and provides support services to ensure a life without limits for people with a spectrum…
On March 24th, Public Lab and the Southeast Side Coalition against Petcoke presented at Chicago’s OpenGov Hack Night about their homemade environmental monitoring kits. Their project was in response to petcoke being dumped all over Chicago’s southeast side. Petcoke is a…
Once again, Smart Chicago Collaborative will be a national partner for National Day of Civic Hacking providing training content as well as running our own National Day of Civic Hacking events here in Chicago. This year, the national organizer for…
