Month: April 2011
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My Work With The Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation
Last Fall I joined the Board of Directors for CITF, the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation, and now that I’ve had a half-year’s worth of meetings, grant requests, and extracurricular work, I wanted to get some thoughts down here.First off, I really enjoy the rhythm and nature of a Board. I’ve served as the Chairman of…
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LEGISLATION: Open Cook County Plan
I advised Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey and his aides on the drafting of an ordinance for the Open Cook County Plan, which was announced today.
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PANEL:”Why Open Data?”at Data 2.0
Today I participated in a panel at the Data 2.0 conference in San Francisco titled, “Why Open Data?“. Governments have started opening data for many reasons: it is a politically positive action and it alleviates the responsibility of analyzing and interpreting the data internally. Social Networks open data so they can become more valuable as…