Driving Innovation Beyond The Big City. In late 2014, I had a chance to present on the main stage at the annual. To the surprise of very few people, I was there to talk about cities and data. Earlier that year, I had. In 2014, the delta between what large cities were doing with data and what small and mid-sized cities were doing. Image courtesy of Flickr user antonymayfield.

On moving my blog from Wordpress to Blogdown.

Crime and Punishment in Chicago. Eliminate the Digital Divide Advisory Committee. WBEZ Public Data Blog and Other Data Journalism. Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech.

To us, a Wise Economy means. A community that makes better decisions. And making better decisions means. Easier said than done, though.

A step-by-step guide by Joshua Tauberer. Based on running and participating in many hackathons. These notes come from four successful years of Open Data Day DC. Hacking is creative problem solving. Hackathons have gotten a bad rap because of some. Strengthen the community that the hackathon is for.

Using collaborative design and digital tools for the public good. Technology in and of itself will not save us. Technology wielded as a tool by an empathetic, informed public can. We believe that 21st century digital tools have tremendous potential to advance the public good when designed, developed, and scaled through inclusive processes that allow sector experts, the public, government, and philanthropy to collaborate with data scientists, designers, and developers. This summer, with the support of the.