2. Agenda
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• Short intro to Smart Chicago Collaborative
• Overall: Civic Innovation in Chicago project
• Specific example: Civic User Testing Group
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4. Smart Chicago Collaborative
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• A civic organization devoted to improving lives
in Chicago through technology
• Devoted the concept of open– open
source, open process, open minds
• Everyone means everyone
• Chicago is our middle name
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6. Civic Innovation in Chicago
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• Looks at public and private information that
can be used to engage residents, solve
community problems and increase
government accountability
• Vast project with partners like
WBEZ, nonprofits, State of Illinois, City of
Chicago, Cook County, and local developers
• Making all the great data published in Chicago
more ubiquitous and useful to real residents
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8. The Civic User Testing Group
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• The Civic User Testing Group (CUT Group) is a set
of regular Chicago residents who get paid to test
out civic apps
• $5 for signup, $20 for testing
• The real mission? Co-creation
• There is a large and growing community of "civic
hackers" in Chicago
• The problem is the apps do not get wide
acceptance by the people they were made for —
regular residents of the city of Chicago.
Notes de l'éditeur
We are about technologyEverything we do relates to technology. We are of and about the InternetWe believe in the transformative power of the Internet to change lives and build economic developmentWe are openWe are a small organization looking to make the biggest impact possible. We can’t do that by being tight or closedWe work in the open, using & publishing open source technologyWe have methods for others allowed “in”, whether as contributors, observers, users, whateverWe seek to be of use to everyoneWe believe in the power of the network. The network needs everyone in it to be powerfulWe work on solutions that cover the entire cityWe seek meaningful paths to participation for all Chicagoans in all of our workWe focus on ChicagoOur middle name. We do seek to scale our solutions, but not without serving Chicago