OpenGovChicago

The Smart Chicago Collaborative hosts OpenGovChicago meetups at the offices of the Chicago Community Trust. We livestream the events and archive them here as well.

Hack Night Live: Transit Future and LargeLots.org

Christopher Whitaker

At tonights (100th!) OpenGov Hack Night, we’ll have two speakers.

Ed Oser and Nick Doiron  will present Transit Future, a vision of an expanded Chicago public transportation system led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Active Transportation Alliancewith a visualization by Open City.

Demond Drummer from Teamwork Englewood will talk about LargeLots.org, an app built by DataMade and LISC Chicago for navigating the City’s program for selling vacant lots on the South Side for $1.

Our live coverage and live stream will start at 6:15pm

OpenGov Chicago Live: IT Procurement & The City of Chicago

Christopher Whitaker

Tonight at 6:00pm Chicago time, we’ll be live streaming tonight’s OpenGov Chicago Meetup on IT Procurement and the City of Chicago right here on this blog post.

Procurement– the process through which a unit of government purchases goods and services– is a hot topic in open government. For our next meetup, we’ll cover the issue head-on with three of the most relevant officials from the City of Chicago.

Brenna Berman, Chief Information Officer and Commissioner of the Department of Innovation and Technology, James McIsaac,  General Counsel for the Department of Procurement Services, and Kate Yager, Deputy Chief of Policy in the Mayor’s Office will present.

They will review the current process, answer questions, and gather information from OpenGovChicago members on how the process can be changed to better interface with the developers and residents who seek to have an impact on City technology.