Everyblock

in
Amount: 
$ 1,100,000
Location: 
Chicago, Ill.
To create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block.
Organization: 
Everyblock
Link: 
EveryBlock.com
N.Y. Times: ' ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers'
Adrian Holovaty on PBS Mediashift Idealab
Daniel X. O'Neil on PBS Mediashift Idealab
Twitter Link: 
@everyblock
@adrianholovaty
@juggernautco (Daniel X. O'Neil)
Winner: 
Adrian Holovaty
Bio: 
Adrian Holovaty is a journalist and web developer in Chicago. He has developed innovative, award-winning web applications for washingtonpost.com, Lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. One of his projects, chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay of the city’s reported crimes using Google’s online mapping technology, won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. He also co-created Django, an open-source web development framework. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2001 and was named one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” in 2005.
Everyblock Open Source on Google Code