Today TechPresident covered the Illinois Open Technology Challenge: Courting Suburban Civic Hackers in Illinois. Snip:
“In each one of these places government people and developers for the first time … have been in the same room together,” said Daniel X. O’Neil, the executive director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative who gains his civic hacking cred, in part, by having co-founded Everyblock. “You had the mayor of Rockford talking with developers and the Rockford CTO talking about data that they had just published the same day.”
