Civic Innovation
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Let’s Build on the CTA’s Open Standards Fare System
Though it seems to have dissipated as people get used to the new system, there has been a lot of sturm und drang about Ventra over last year. Now that the drama is over, it might be time for us in the civic innovation sector of the technology industry to turn our attention to building on…
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Some Thoughts Toward the Maturation of the Civic Innovation Sector of the Technology Industry
I saw this blog post by Derek Eder of DataMade last week and it made me feel good that we are taking steps over at OpenGovChicago to have some concrete discussions about IT procurement in the municipal government of Chicago. Almost invariably, when one looks at things more closely— as the people of Chicago should expect when…
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Boss Second Season Filming Locations, Chicago
One example of how I used this site to expose municipal content as art.
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Toward a Generic Context Engine for Civic Data
I have been thinking and writing for quite some time about how to use civic data— the type of info found on data portals like data.cityofchicago.org— to tell real stories. That’s why I’m psyched to be attending two events— Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday and the MIT – Knight Civic Media Conference, where I’ll…
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Anatomy of a Service Request Type: Tree Trimming
The City of Chicago does not yet publish 311 service request data for tree trim requests, although I do expect that to be published soon Meantime, I took some photos of the process here. This tree trim operation is in the 2000 block of North Damen. This guy has the tools of the trade: rake,…