Hacknight #379

Civic Participation and Democratic Experience: Civic Tech in Toronto

with Curtis McCord

Recording

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In this presentation, Curtis McCord will cover his research on Civic Tech Toronto from the past five years, focusing primarily on two papers which explore how CTTO's governance and way of producing contribute to civic life, while being distinct from many ways of understanding ‘civic tech’.

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.

Topic: Civic Participation and Democratic Experience: Civic Tech in Toronto

In this presentation, Curtis McCord will cover his research on Civic Tech Toronto from the past five years, focusing primarily on two papers which explore how CTTO’s governance and way of producing contribute to civic life, while being distinct from many ways of understanding “civic tech”.

Speaker: Curtis McCord

Curtis has a PhD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, where his research was focused on civic technology and the use of technologies in democratic processes.