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| Mar 25, 2021 | The impact a year in the pandemic makes | Editor’s note: These last weeks of March mark one year since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. In this guest post, Impact Hub Baltimore marketing and outreach manager Alanah Nichole Davis and executive director Michelle Geiss each take a secti... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | A Baltimore CEO and city councilman are using TikTok to explain tricky topics for a wide audience | TikTok may seem like it’s all about influencer houses and sipping cranberry juice. But the video-based social networking service has plenty of room for creativity for all types of users. With short videos that never exceed a minute and tool... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Seems Skeptical That Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance System Violates The Fourth Amendment | The legal fight over Baltimore’s aerial surveillance system continues. Airplanes armed with powerful cameras fly constantly over the city, allowing law enforcement to view the movements of people and vehicles over a 32-square mile area. The... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Seems Skeptical That Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance System Violates The Fourth Amendment | The legal fight over Baltimore's aerial surveillance system continues. Airplanes armed with powerful cameras fly constantly over the city, allowing law enforcement to view the movements of people and vehicles over a 32-square mile area. The... |
| May 5, 2020 | 50 Baltimore orgs are joining together to close the digital divide — during the pandemic, and beyond | When a problem is widely felt and deeply entrenched, solving it takes work on many levels.
The efforts of a knowledgable and motivated resident who saw a need and wanted to help her neighbor can play a role in filling a gap, while at the sa... |
| Aug 30, 2019 | Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools | Enlarge
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| May 28, 2019 | Eternally Blue: Baltimore City leaders blame NSA for ransomware attack | Enlarge / Baltimore: An IT disaster area?
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| May 20, 2019 | Baltimore ransomware nightmare could last weeks more, with big consequences | Enlarge / Baltimore City Hall, where the ransomware battle continues.
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| May 8, 2018 | Agtech company plans a new farm at site of former steel mill | An agtech company is taking a plot at the former site of a Baltimore County steel mill.
Gotham Greens announced plans Tuesday to build a hydroponic greenhouse at Tradepoint Atlantic, the 3,100-acre development that formerly housed the Bethl... |
| Mar 27, 2018 | City proposes $6.8M contract extension for Baltimore police body cameras | The Baltimore Police Department’s body camera program would get a two-year contract extension if a proposal goes through this week.
According to the agenda for this week’s city Board of Estimates meeting, the city is proposing an additional... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | UMB BioPark could be getting a new incubator | The University of Maryland BioPark is looking to add another building that would feature a biotech incubator as its anchor.
Real estate firm Wexford Science + Technology is seeking public financing for a future building at 873 W. Baltimore ... |
| Jun 8, 2015 | Delivery Hero Seals $110M Deal and Hints at Potential Post-2015 IPO | Berlin-based Delivery Hero announced recently that it has secured an additional $110 million in funding from two unidentified U.S.-based “leading public market investors.” This recent funding round brings Delivery Hero’s total investment de... |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Bus pass: Civic hackers open transit data MTA said would cost too much to share | The Maryland Transit Administration's approach to sharing live bus route data fell a little short on usability, much like this MTA bus stop sign.
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| Mar 7, 2014 | Maryland’s cyber industry ‘thrives’ as hackers get more advanced [Links] | Maryland’s cybersecurity industry thrives despite hackers’ evolution [Capital News Service]: “The industry frequently benefits when NSA employees leave to work in the private sector, unleashing intelligence and innovation otherwise that ‘ma... |
| Jan 16, 2014 | #MoneyballChat: Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Twitter town hall | For about 45 minutes during the Wednesday lunch hour, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake availed herself of social media to speak directly to the citizens of Baltimore. Credit is due for a politician opening herself up to a Twitter roundtable, ... |
| Dec 19, 2013 | Mayor visits Digital Harbor Foundation for Family Make Night | Parents, relatives and students between the ages of 3 and 17 — 84 people in all — were at the Digital Harbor Tech Center for the second Family Make Night on Monday building circuits and designing LED ornaments to hang on their Christmas tre... |
| Nov 8, 2013 | Sheltr app for homelessness services wins $1K civic hacking prize | The thinking behind the Sheltr web app, originally developed in Philadelphia in 2011, goes something like this: if people who are homeless (or people acting on their behalf) have access to a computer and an Internet connection — say, at a p... |
| Nov 8, 2013 | More business grads opt for tech jobs [Links] | More business grads ditch finance, opt for tech jobs [Baltimore Business Journal]: “In fact, for the first time, more Stanford Graduate School of Business grads this year chose tech jobs over finance jobs, the Wall Street Journal reports.”
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| Nov 5, 2013 | Baltimore City Robotics Center gets 18-month trial period [VIDEO] | For at least a year and a half, Baltimore city schools’ robotics teams have a permanent home in Hollins Market. It seems that showing off the space worked.
A large, second-floor room at 1001 West Pratt Street will serve as the location of t... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | Big Change in Baltimore ‘has to start from the grassroots up’ [EVENT] | Arlando Jones was the son of a father he never knew and a mother whose year of death he’s unsure of. His Aunt Kim acted as a surrogate parent, though her heroin addiction proved her a poor substitute. By age 12, Tray, as he was known, was r... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Baltimore Robotics Expo TONIGHT shows what could be city robotics’ home | Competitive robotics that pits teams of engineering-loving middle and high school students against one another in timed matches is slowly gaining a foothold in Baltimore city’s public schools. In the last year, Baltimore City Public Schools... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | More than trading laptops for guns, IT entrepreneur aims to rewire Baltimore | Digit All Systems' CEO Lance Lucas in the data center he hopes to turn into a cloud training center and platform for community wireless services.
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| Jul 10, 2013 | Councilman Brandon Scott: Baltimore open data has ‘a long way to go’ [Q&A] | Brandon Scott, the 29-year-old, first-term City Council member whose 2nd district includes parts of Canton and Parkside, wants the city to “stop fighting positive change.”
“Here in Baltimore, we’re slow to change, while everyone else around... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | Baltimore Foundery: downtown makerspace officially opens doors to public [PHOTOS] | While the Baltimore Foundery has been holding closed classes for members of its Meetup group since April, the city’s newest makerspace on South Central Avenue, as of July 1, is officially open.
As its name suggests — “founder” meets “foundr... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Digit All Systems hosts Computers for Guns buy-back at downtown arts center | Only a gun will get you one of the 150 laptops Digit All Systems founder Lance Lucas has to trade.
Next Saturday at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center, Lucas’ computer training nonprofit is partnering with the Baltimore Police Department and... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | Booze News: watchdog blog reporting on Liquor Board meetings launches [Links] | After scorching Liquor Board audit, a watchdog blog is launched [Baltimore Brew]: “[T]he Community Law Center (which has been representing neighborhoods before the Liquor Board for decades) decided to assign an attorney to attend the board’... |
| Mar 11, 2013 | CIO Chris Tonjes ‘drafting alternative plan’ to convert city phone system to VoIP | Chris Tonjes, city CIO and director of the Mayor’s Office of Information Technology, is “drafting an ‘alternative plan’ to overhaul” the phone system of Baltimore city government.
It’s another chapter in a months-long fight the city has bee... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | 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 typ... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | State of the City: Mayor Rawlings-Blake calls for 22 percent reduction in property taxes over 10 years | In her State of the City address Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for “requiring more city workers to contribute to their retirement fund, charging residents for trash collection, asking firefighters to work longer hours and cu... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | David McClintock steps down as Baltimore inspector general after uncovering City Hall VoIP controversy | Months after stirring up a major controversy in City Hall, Baltimore’s Inspector General David N. McClintock has left Baltimore city government to pursue “a new opportunity in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana,” according to an announcement from ... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | Tech in West Baltimore with gb.tc // Baltimore’s 2013 budget ‘is balanced’ // Entrepreneurship in U.S. ‘back on a roll’ [Links] | Baltimore’s Techie Underbelly [gb.tc]: Tech Crawl 2 took about 70 people to five different sites on Baltimore’s west side, including the Bromo Seltzer Tower and Edge Web Hosting.
Release of city fiscal forecast sparks false reports of bankr... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Baltimore city financial forecast predicts $745M in budget deficits over the next decade | Update 2/7/13 11:05 a.m.: Don’t panic yet, people. For some context, look to the Baltimore Brew, which reports that “the city’s current 2013 budget is balanced, there is $90 million available in a ‘budget stabilization reserve,’ and next ye... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | JHU summit presents data on guns // Ravens fans parody ‘Call Me Maybe’ // Maryland Proton Treatment Center ‘tops out’ [LINKS] | Canton Startup Seeks Funding for New Social Media Venture [BmoreMedia]: “Baltimore tech startup SameGrain Inc. plans to launch its first round of financing, for $500,000, this year.”
Rec center reopens as Digital Harbor Tech Center [Baltimo... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | Digital Harbor Tech Center ‘linking the way we educate our kids to the way we innovate our ideas’ [VIDEO + PHOTOS] | Co-executive directors of the Digital Harbor Foundation, Andrew Coy (left) and Shelly Blake-Plock, flank director of the Digital Harbor Tech Center, Rose Burt.
Energy was palpable at the grand opening of the Digital Harbor Tech Center in Fe... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Noxilizer signs lease with UMD BioPark // Co-founder of 2U named to Forbes “30 Under 30” // Unbound Concepts seeks $1M in debt financing [Startup Roundup] | This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem.
Noxilizer Inc. is the latest life sciences company to sign a lease for space inside the Uni... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Sandy floods Hopkins research building // Hunt Valley station owner reports $26M Q3 profit // Time to update your terms of service? [Links] | Your terms of service may no longer pass court muster [Baltimore Sun]: “Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer, lost a court battle in trying to defend its Terms of Service language from lawyers who are suing the company for losing t... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | City’s VoIP phone situation ‘a case of epic stakeholder mismanagement,’ says CIO Chris Tonjes | A new front has opened up in the battle over the city’s attempt to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in VoIP phones and equipment.
The Baltimore Sun reports that an investigation led by city inspector general David N. McClintock “in... |
| Aug 10, 2012 | Chris Tonjes: new city CIO on leading with “a startup mentality” [Q&A] | Photo credit: Greg Pearson
Baltimore didn’t have much luck with its last chief information officer.
First Rico Singleton was forced to resign in March following news that New York State was auditing him for questionable deals he made with s... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | New City CTO Chris Tonjes says infrastructure, digital inclusion and Open Baltimore are priorities | Expect a rebooted focus on communications infrastructure, digital inclusion efforts and open data initiatives from the City of Baltimore.
Chris Tonjes outlined his larger vision for what he’d like to accomplish as the city’s new Chief Techn... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | 10 takeaways from new City of Philadelphia Open Data Policy | As first reported by Technically Philly, Mayor Nutter signed yesterday an Executive Order pledging greater transparency through data releases.
Executive Orders are good at making clear top-level goals, but the hard work is left to be implem... |
| Dec 30, 2011 | Baltimore Open Government 2011 Year in Review | Following up on my previous post for the City of Philadelphia, this post describes what happened on the open government and open data fronts in the City of Baltimore in 2011.OpenBaltimore Launches
The open data movement in Baltimore officia... |
| How Landlord Tech Is Squeezing Renters Who Can't Afford Security Deposits | When Desereé Cundiff applied for her apartment complex in Augusta, Georgia, she could afford everything but the security deposit, which was over $900. Her property manager told her about a company called Rhino, which offered an alternative:... |