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Transform Your City with Public Data

April 30, 2013
Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) 1st Deputy Commissioner, Brenna Berman shares how city governments can open their data.

Explore public data and how public servants can enhance civic life by making data open and accessible. Advocates for open data believe that government and civic services should be as intuitively interactive and useful as...
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Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) 1st Deputy Commissioner, Brenna Berman shares how city governments can open their data.

Transform Your City with Public Data

Explore public data and how public servants can enhance civic life by making data open and accessible. Advocates for open data believe that government and civic services should be as intuitively interactive and useful as the best e-commerce and social networking tools. The City of Chicago’s First Deputy Commissioner Department of Innovation and Technology, Brenna Berman, has been instrumental...

Kirk Damman cartoon

Patents, copyright, opportunities and 3D Printing

With our 3D printing event coming up, we sat down with Kirk Damman, attorney and geek (the image at left is him as Han Solo on Hoth) to talk about intellectual property, remix culture, business models and forecasting the impact of 3D printing. He reminds us that his comments are his own and don’t...

Gestural Messaging for Independent Living – Hands-On Ideas 9

Gestural Messaging for Independent Living – Hands-On Ideas 9

Kinect, Arduino, Processing and assistive living hacks keep Chad Ruble’s mom in her house living independently. After a stroke left her partially physically impaired, Chad’s mom had a hard time using phones and other devices.  Not one to ignore a challenge, Chad combined an Arduino controller, Processing libraries, a Microsoft X Box Kinect and...

Business Learns from Nature

Business Learns from Nature

When the West Japan Railway Company made the world’s fastest train, engineer Eiji Nakatsu got a lot of complaints from residents. It turns out that a train zipping 200 miles per hour through a residential neighborhood is extremely loud. But Eiji didn’t go straight to the drawing board. He took a hike instead. Looking...

Enhancing Civic Life with Public Data

Enhancing Civic Life with Public Data

 Click here to join the webcast on April 30th at 1PM CST Join us as we explore public data and how public servants can enhance civic life by making public data open and accessible. Advocates for open data believe that government and civic services should be as intuitively interactive and useful as the best e-commerce...

Imagine making something this complex – with no tooling. (Image courtesy of Stratasys)

3D Printing Becomes Big Business

3D printing has grown from a hobby to being poised to begin producing objects on-demand from previously unattainable materials using low cost machines. How can we use this virtualization of product innovation to serve the "long tail" of commerce, lower our use of resources, slash logistics costs, and change what it means to be...


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