Hacknight #237

Recap from Code for Canada Summit

with Curtis McCord and Emily Macrae

Civic Tech Toronto co-organizers Curtis McCord and Emily Macrae will share learnings from Code for Canada’s first ever Summit, which brought together public servants, residents and entrepreneurs using technology and design to change people’s lives for the better. Find out how technology is changing policies, programs and practices within government and what that means for grassroots civic tech initiatives across the country.

Speakers

Curtis McCord

Curtis McCord is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, where his research examines public engagement processes and technology development. To do this, Curtis takes an interdisciplinary approach that blends methods and frameworks from Systems Thinking, Science and Technology Studies, Political Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Past projects have included a deconstruction of Budget Talks, Ontario's digital pre-budgetary consultation, an examination of Sidewalk Toronto's engagement methods and project scope, as well as collaborations on critical approaches to requirements engineering. Curtis has been attending Civic Tech Toronto since 2015, and for the last year, has been volunteering at CTTO as part of his dissertation research.

Emily Macrae

Emily Macrae is a writer and organizer combining policy analysis with lived experience to build accessible digital and urban environments. Over the course of three years with Civic Tech Toronto, she has hacked on the BikeSpace project, asked for help learning Python and filled many roles as a co-organizer.

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Civic Tech Toronto co-organizers Curtis McCord and Emily Macrae will share learnings from Code for Canada’s first ever Summit, which brought together public servants, residents and entrepreneurs using technology and design to change people’s lives for the better.

Find out how technology is changing policies, programs and practices within government and what that means for grassroots civic tech initiatives across the country.

@cwm__ @emilyamacrae

Join us this week from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you are practicing social isolation, for a virtual civic tech hacknight!

Join us via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/337049325?pwd=bVFsSExTeHNTclE1NmpmWWRKdjlPQT09 Password: 013331 Webcams and mics optional, but encouraged!

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat.

We’re exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible, but at the moment we only provide video of the presentation slides and audio.

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

6:45-7: Civic Tech 101 7-7:10: Welcome and Introductions 7:10-7:40: Presentation and Q&A/discussion 7:40-9: Breakout groups (go make something!)

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca Here’s our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!