Civic Innovation
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Street level collaboration with municipal equipment
April in Chicago means the return of street sweeping. Street sweeping season ends in October before the bulk of the leaves leave the tree, so April means that there is often enormous amount of organic material in the street.
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Chicago Public Meetings Method
A new way for civic engagement The Chicago Public Meeting Method is a rigorous set of practices for civic engagement that brings together mass information, economic development, and digital skills to foster transparent, accountable, collective decision-making. The principles are as follows:
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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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Popularity + Impact in Volunteer Movements: Alcoholics Anonymous, Poetry Slams, and the Path to Impact for the Civic Innovation Movement
Here’s a presentation I’m giving here later today. Hi, I’m Dan O’Neil, and I want to talk to you about popularity and impact in software. All of us here are somehow a part of the civic innovation sector of the technology industry, which has largely been a volunteer-driven movement. There are some lessons to be…
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The Winners of Jackie Robinson West
Waiting for someone to do some real analysis of this. Here’s what I see, as a simple Chicagoan who shared in the immense joy of the success of these kids. The coach from Evergreen Park is a tiny, bitter, ugly little man All of these youth are from Chicago Geography is often destiny. We have…