Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Open Data: Roots, Impact, and Promise
Here’s the full text and slides from a talk I gave this morning at The White House Open Data Innovation Summit.
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July Hours, Longmont
I have a meeting in Longmont, CO tomorrow and, as is my wont, I arrived early the day before to see what’s up in a new place. I am at the Hampton Inn, which may sound inauspicious at first, on the main drag in to town and down a bit from the greenway. Nature drives…
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Leaving Smart Chicago for Ad Hoc
Today I am leaving my position as executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative to join Ad Hoc, a small software company that came out of the successful HealthCare.gov rescue effort. I will be joining Paul Smith, Greg Gershman, and the team they’ve built as director of business strategy & product development. At Smart Chicago,…
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New post on Civicist: Toward Sustainability for Local Tech Organizing
Here’s a new post I wrote for Civicist: Toward Sustainability for Local Tech Organizing. Snip: Sustainability of civic tech organizing is basically resolved in Chicago. The question for me is whether these kinds of tech organizing groups are the model that should be supported. * Smart Chicago’s focus is on the unmet technology organizing needs in…
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A Radical Approach to Open Police Data
On page 112 of the report of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve“, there is a section about the publication of police data that might change the way we think about “crime data” in the #opengov and #civictech movement. In the section on Early…