Month: November 2014
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Guest Blog Post: Smart Chicago Collaborative helps launch three civic innovation projects
Today I wrote a blog post for the Knight Foundation about the Civic Works project, which is funded by the Knight Foundation and matching funds from The Chicago Community Trust. Here’s a snip: Over the past few months, the Smart Chicago Collaborative has launched (or helped others launch) three new projects as part of our…
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News Article: “The Responsive City: Chicago”
Here’s an article from this month’s Broadband Communities magazine by Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford of Harvard University about Smart Chicago’s work with SWOP in collecting neighborhood-level building information for use in collaborative decision-making. Here’s a snip: SWOP, O’Neil’s team realized, could use this app to digitize its processes for tracking neglected properties. LocalData gave Smart…