#Civic Summer is an experimental summer jobs program for teens focused on civics, media, and technology. Our inaugural program ran from July through August of 2013 and included more than 140 Chicago teens trained to use the latest digital tools to…
We need volunteers to help us with our next few CUTGroup tests. Here’s the commitment: Help us out for 2 hours, 6-8pm, sometime during the week at a public computer center somewhere in Chicago You will be working with CUTGroup…
As we noted in the launch post about Adopt-A-Sidewalk, tonight marks the first storm here in Chicago this winter. That means it is the first time this season that snowplows have been deployed by the Chicago Department of Streets and…
Today, 18F launched an analytics dashboard for government websites and opened sourced both the dashboard and the app they use to collect the data from Google Analytics. The data comes from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. federal government agencies…
Today we’re launching our Annotations program, where we publish rich text-based annotations of dense government documents like municipal code, RFPs, contracts, and other documents of this nature. People in the open government / open data world like to poke fun…