Chicago Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk has a great follow-up blog post riffing off my Friday commentary on the CDO’s role as business developer.
Breaking the wall in Chicago
Over the past few years, the civic innovation movement has grown tremendously. It’s exploded really. Ten years ago, who would have imagined that Chicago would be a national leader in open government data?
Chicago launches first comprehensive, public data dictionary
Today the City of Chicago launched the City of Chicago Data Dictionary, a single, comprehensive database catalog for the City of Chicago and City of Chicago sister agencies.
Chicago’s effort to grow our own talent
In recent months, we’ve highlighted several efforts to teach young people how to code and about technology. These efforts have included Englewood Codes, Civic Summer and Adler Planetarium’s Youth Hackathon.
Chicago and Open 311 (VIDEO)
Great video from the Chicago mayor’s office on their Open 311 deployment.
Opening Chicago with CTO John Tolva
Chicago Chief Technology Officer John Tolva joins us to discuss the city’s open data and open311 initiatives, as well as its work with Code for America.
Five open data visualizations from Cook County (IL)
Here are five visualizations from the new Cook County (IL) open data catalog.
GovFreshTV: Q&A with Chicago CTO John Tolva
During last week’s Code for America 2011 Summit, I sat down with Chicago Chief Technology Officer John Tolva and asked him about his current IT initiatives, challenges and lessons learned.
Gov 2.0 Radio: John Tolva on his new role as Chicago CTO
Gov 2.0 Radio interviews Chicago’s new Chief Technology Officer John Tolva.