Author: Daniel X. O’Neil
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Panel: Opening Government: From data to action
Today I participated in the closing session of the 2014 Knight Media Learning Seminar. Here’s complete video of the panel, and a summary. And here’s complete text of my opening remarks: Remarks at Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Opening Government: From data to action Hello. I’m Dan O’Neil, and I run…
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ORD Camp Listener
Today I attended ORD Camp and I listened to people.
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On the Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today marks the relaunch of EveryBlock, six years to the day after its first launch. Here’s what I had to say: “Chicago is a national leader in civic innovation, and the return of EveryBlock is an opportunity for deepening that leadership. We’re especially interested in the development of EveryBlock as an open platform for developers…
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Expunge.io
Today I helped launch a website called Expuge.io. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post at Smart Chicago: The site, which helps start the process of erasing juvenile arrests and/or court records, is pretty much why we exist. For us, it grew naturally out of work we did over our CivicSummer, interacting with youth on…
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Radio: Open Data Movement and the Coming Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today I was interviewed on WBEZ’s Morning Shift about the coming relaunch of EveryBlock. Here’s an embed: And an audio file:
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Panel: UIC Urban Forum: How Technology Can Help Unite the Government with its People
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the UIC Urban Forum. Book to come! Panelists: Scott Bernstein, President and Co-Founder, The Center for Neighborhood Technology *Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jon Gant, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Daniel O’Neil, Executive Director,…
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Profile: The Smart Chicago Collaborative: A New Model for Civic Innovation in Cities
Here’s a blog post about Smart Chicago from the website of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Their research focus is “the intersection of government and data, ranging from open data and predictive analytics to civic engagement technology”. Here’s the post: The Smart Chicago Collaborative: A New Model for Civic Innovation…
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Presentation to CFA 2014 Fellows: Overcoming Objections
Top three best practices in overcoming objections 1. Cheerful, positive, water-like. 2. Stay above. Speak in terms of policy. Make everything repeatable. 3. There are nothing but details. Nothing else matters. Dan O’Neil (773) 960-6045 danielx@gmail.com
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Panel: The Great Leveller
Today I participated in a panel called, “The Great Leveller”, about the promise of health data, at “A Health Data Consortium Event: Putting Health Data to Work in Our States and Communities“. Here’s their description: In partnership with the State of Illinois, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Data Consortium…
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Panel: It Takes A Village
Today I took part in a discussion hosted by the Health Data Consortium called, “It Takes a Village”. I spoke with Jim Alexander of the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute about the unique partnerships necessary to do our work at Smart Chicago.