![Shea Frederick: AOL/Ad.com developer named OpenGov Champion by Sunlight Foundation [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/02/Screen-shot-2013-02-20-at-12.16.49-PM-160x130.png)
civic
Feb. 21, 2013 9:30 am
Shea Frederick: AOL/Ad.com developer named OpenGov Champion by Sunlight Foundation [VIDEO]
Civic hacker and AOL/Ad.com developer Shea Frederick is the Sunlight Foundation‘s latest OpenGov Champion. The nonprofit, D.C.-based foundation is known for promoting more open government and political transparency by encouraging people typically called “civic hackers” to create web and mobile apps to improve citizens’ access to government data.
![Baltimore DataMind: use this map to visualize BNIA data in Baltimore city [MAP]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/02/Screen-shot-2013-02-07-at-4.20.25-PM-160x130.png)
creative
Feb. 8, 2013 9:00 am
Baltimore DataMind: use this map to visualize BNIA data in Baltimore city [MAP]
Population of Hampden, as represented on the Baltimore DataMind map. The interactive mapping tool Baltimore DataMind allows users to sift through the more than 50,000 data points compiled by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute at the University of Baltimore.
business
Jan. 17, 2013 10:30 am
“All signs point to Baltimore city becoming a bigger force in tech:” WYPR’s Maryland Morning
The growth of the City of Baltimore’s open data movement and tech startup incubation programs, like Accelerate Baltimore, were the focus this week of WYPR’s Maryland Morning Tech Check segment, which included Technically Baltimore’s Andrew Zaleski. Download here or listen on WYPR or below.
![Chris Tonjes: CIO presents city IT department’s new mission at Dec. TechBreakfast [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/01/Screen-shot-2013-01-02-at-5.43.34-PM-160x130.png)
creative
Jan. 3, 2013 10:00 am
Chris Tonjes: CIO presents city IT department’s new mission at Dec. TechBreakfast [VIDEO]
The biggest challenge for city CIO Chris Tonjes? Moving at the pace of city bureaucracy, where building consensus around new approaches and ideas has a tendency to take awhile. As Tonjes said last Thursday at Baltimore TechBreakfast, “I have to temper my expectations based on time.”
![Local photogs drop Instagram // Best open data release of 2012 // Mindgrub’s Catapult giving site makes Bill Gates’ list [Links]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/12/friday-42011-160x127.jpg)
uncategorized
Dec. 21, 2012 8:30 am
Local photogs drop Instagram // Best open data release of 2012 // Mindgrub’s Catapult giving site makes Bill Gates’ list [Links]
Baltimore photographers drop Instagram amid concerns that photos could appear in ads [Baltimore Sun]: “The changes go into effect in mid-January, the most contentious point being Instagram’s ability to sell users’ photos without informing or paying them. But local freelance photographer J.M. Giordano wasn’t taking any chances. He canceled his account and moved over to [...]
![Google’s top searches of 2012 // Betamore bets big on Baltimore // Google Maps native app for iOS [Links]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/07/friday-42011-160x127.jpg)
uncategorized
Dec. 14, 2012 8:30 am
Google’s top searches of 2012 // Betamore bets big on Baltimore // Google Maps native app for iOS [Links]
Google 2012: The Top Searches of the Year [ReadWrite]: “Gangnam Style, the presidential election of 2012, Hurricane Sandy and Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic freefall; these are just a few of Google’s top searches featured in their Zeitgeist 2012: Year in Review video.” Betamore makes a splashy bet that Baltimore is more than what you see on HBO [PandoDaily]: “[T]he [...]
![WYPR’s ‘Lines Between Us’ interactive map plots data on Baltimore income inequality [MAPS]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/10/LinesBetweenUs-160x130.jpg)
civic
Oct. 24, 2012 10:30 am
WYPR’s ‘Lines Between Us’ interactive map plots data on Baltimore income inequality [MAPS]
Interested in viewing disparities in median household income throughout Baltimore city? Or information on what neighborhoods suffer from higher foreclosure rates? The “Lines Between Us” maps made available by local National Public Radio affiliate, WYPR, depict just that. A series of maps shows information on household income, foreclosure rates, the geography of race in Baltimore [...]
uncategorized
Oct. 24, 2012 9:30 am
OpenBaltimore upgrade allows shape and KMZ files to be viewed as maps
An upgrade to the OpenBaltimore data website now allows users to view city data sets as maps inside their Internet browsers, as city CIO Chris Tonjes announced on the Baltimore Tech Facebook group Monday:
uncategorized
Oct. 12, 2012 10:00 am
CitiStat names Chad Kenney new director, returns to posting reports online
New CitiStat director Chad Kenney is “pledging better transparency and performance from the vaunted good-government program,” reports the Baltimore Sun. The pledge from the new director, who took office in August, comes after a summer where CitiStat failed to meet for almost two months. Since taking over, Kenney has posted five new CitiStat reports to the [...]
uncategorized
Oct. 5, 2012 10:30 am
Justice Mapping Center: NY-based reveals ‘million-dollar blocks’ of incarceration nationwide
Depicting demographic and municipal data as points on a map is a helpful way to visualize urban blight — and pockets of opportunity — in a city, as Elliot Plack has done with his map of Baltimore’s vacant houses, or as Colin Drane has done with his SpotCrime crime-mapping website. But the meaning behind seeing, [...]