Join mRelief at Chicago’s #CodeAcross Food Stamp Hackathon
On February 20th, the mRelief team will be hosting a Food Stamp Hackathon as part of Code for America’s Code Across event. mRelief.com empowers Chicagoans with a tool to access the welfare system in...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Health Navigators
The Smart Chicago Collaborative seeks to immediately contract with 2 Health Navigators to work in our Smart Health Centers program. The Health Navigator will provide assistance to patients/participants...
View ArticleTwo New Health Navigators
Yesterday we on-boarded two new Health Navigators in our Smart Health Centers program: Anthony Green, who will be working at Family Focus and A.C.T.S. OF F.A.I.T.H., and Daniel Broome, who will work...
View ArticleChicago Health Corps Turns 20! By Alicia Phillippou
Editor’s note: The following post is from Alicia Phillippou – a member of the Chicago Health Corps What do Habitat for Humanity, City Year, and the Smart Chicago Collaborative all have in common? They...
View ArticleFoodborne Chicago Affected by Twitter Geocoding Issue
Foodborne Chicago is an application that provides an easy online interface to report incidents of food poisoning to the Chicago Department of Public Health through the city’s open311 interface. This...
View ArticleSmart Chicago Co-Hosts 2015 Innovation Lab With United Cerebral Palsy’s Life Lab
Smart Chicago is partnering with United Cerebral Palsy’s Life Labs to host their 2015 Innovation Labs on May 19 & 20 at the Microsoft Technology Center here in Chicago. United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)...
View ArticleImages from ADA 25 Chicago Launch Event: Greater > Together
Today I attended the launch event ADA 25 Chicago, a network of civic partners who have come together to commemorate and advance a civil rights milestone— the 25th anniversary of the Americans with...
View ArticleThe value of small wins in building the civic innovation community
One of the most common pieces of advice I give to civic innovation communities that are just starting up is to start with small wins. Chicago’s civic innovation ecosystem has been up and running for...
View ArticleThe City of Chicago unveils predictive analytics model to find foodborne...
City of Chicago Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk Jr spoke at last week’s Chi Hack Night to talk about their new system to predict the riskiest restaurants in order to prioritize food inspections – and has...
View ArticleIssue Primer: Health
For this year’s National Day of Civic Hacking, we’re writing up primers on different civic issues to help people get a better understanding of the issues as they start working on projects. Below, we’ve...
View ArticleFoodborne Chicago is a Top 25 Innovation in Government
Today our product, Foodborne Chicago, was recognized by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Here’s their writeup: FoodBorne Chicago City of Chicago, IL On March 23, 2013, the...
View ArticleHealth Advocates Weigh Data, Equity in Obesity Targets
Childhood obesity is a stubborn problem to reverse in communities starved for cash. In a new five-year plan, Chicago health advocates put a priority on targeting funds and tracking results. “We are not...
View ArticleHealthy Chicago 2.0: Health Action Plan Marshals Community, Data to Target...
Chicago’s public health goals are shifting toward battling crime, tenement housing and other stubborn social concerns. Nearly a year of data-driven community discussions have led the city’s health...
View ArticleDesign Thinking Raises Patients’ Profile to Rehab Health Care Access
When Chicago technologists diagnose health issues, they turn their attention to how patients and practitioners make decisions. “It’s always important to understand the domain,” says ThoughtWorks user...
View Article2015 Year in Review
This was a big year for community technology in Chicago. Here’s a month-by-month look at some of the things Smart Chicago has shared, supported, and accomplished in 2015. January: Smart Chicago Model...
View ArticleSmart Health Center Navigators Assisting in Nutrition and Weight Loss...
Here’s an update on our work at Cook County Health System General Medicine Center at Fantus Clinic over the last few weeks. Health Navigator Zaundra Boyd has been helping nutritionist Carole O’Neil and...
View ArticleHealthy Chicago 2.0 and the Chicago Health Atlas
This morning marked the launch of Healthy Chicago 2.0: Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan, by our partner, the Chicago Department of Public Health. Here’s their overview: This plan,...
View ArticleHealthy Chicago 2.0: City Sets Broad, Data-driven Goals
Chicago’s 2020 public-health plan is data driven. The city is putting numbers behind 60 health outcomes it wants to improve, from raising life expectancy to reducing infant mortality, gun violence,...
View ArticleLeslie Durr Joins Smart Chicago as Project Coordinator
Leslie Durr joins the Smart Chicago Collaborative as a Project Coordinator.She will serve as the point person for projects including Chicago Health Atlas, Smart Health Centers, Foodborne, Hive...
View ArticleYouth-Led Tech Career Days 2016
This year the Youth-Led Tech program developed targeted Career Days and a Career Development Day. These two programs were designed and integrated into the 6-week technology curriculum to introduce...
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