Next week is our second Open Data Town Hall at the Upcounty Regional Services Center. I hope you can make it out and give us your feedback on the type of data you’d like to see the county publish on dataMontgomery. This week and next I’d like to flex our social media muscle and hear…
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The upcoming Upcounty Open Data Town Hall will be held at the Upcounty Regional Services Center in Germantown on January 28th from 7-8:30 pm. The first Open Data Town Hall was very successful and gathered insight from Montgomery County residents on the application of Open Data in the county. However, the second Open Data Town…
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Leading up to our second Open Data Town Hall on January 28th, we want to know what open data means to you. What do you want us to publish on dataMontgomery? What could you do with the data? Here are a couple responses from our first town hall in November. Let us know what you’d…
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This fall, the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Office of Special Education and Student Services, in collaboration with the Innovation Program, launched a pilot program designed to test new methods of communication and instruction for selected students diagnosed with autism. Students in the pilot program have significant challenges in verbal communication. The pilot uses electronic…
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Based on the success of the November 21st Open Data Town Hall at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, the Montgomery County Innovation Program will be hosting another Open Data Town Hall on January 28th, 2014 at the Upcounty Regional Services Center (12900 Middlebrook Road, Germantown, MD 20874). The event will be from 7 to…
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“Panhandling: It’s not safe. It doesn’t help. Give a hand up, not a hand out.” You have probably seen these signs all over Montgomery County. The source of this public service announcement is to discourage panhandlers in Montgomery County and influence people to donate to other places. Giving money to panhandlers on the side of…
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Fully equipped with life-size room designs, high ceilings, individual design rooms, and miniature-scale models, the Marriott Innovation Lab is an impressive creative space within Marriott. Marriott International Headquarters, located in Bethesda, Maryland, boasts a new underground innovation lab that allows room ideas, architecture designs, and furniture inventions to be tested and scaled. Its main use is…
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On Thursday, November 21st the Montgomery County Innovation Program hosted the first Open Data Town Hall at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center. The event was organized by the Innovation Program in collaboration with the Department of Technology Services and with the help of many County departments. We are pleased to say that the results…
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One of concepts currently being explored by the Innovation Program is the idea of starting a kitchen incubator. There are both pros and cons to kitchen incubators, because while they try to help small businesses and benefit the users, sometimes their popularity causes them to be ineffective. Pros: Many kinks have been worked out in kitchen…
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In order to make the case for a kitchen incubator in Montgomery county, it is important to know who will benefit and how. With that in mind, I interviewed three types of food entrepreneurs: a food truck owner, a baker, and a caterer. I discovered how they would find a kitchen incubator useful and whether…
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