Hacknight #56

Innovation at TPL

with Carmen Ho and Lina Kim

Recording

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Speakers

Carmen Ho

Carmen is part of the Policy, Planning and Performance Management team at Toronto Public Library. In her role as a Planning Specialist, she engages in long and short-term planning for the organization and develops standards, performance measures and evaluates methodologies and outputs on library projects and services.

Lina Kim

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

Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion: Carmen Ho and Lina Kim from the Toronto Public Library 7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

For more info, visit civictech.ca (http://civictech.ca/).

Here’s our Code of Conduct (http://civictech.ca/about-us/).

Fifty-sixth hacknight; 47 participants.

Presenters: Lina Kim and Carmen Ho from the Toronto Public Library

{video to come}

Breakout groups:

Civic Tech 101: Gabe
Police Complaints on Carding (PCOC): Zakaria {outreach strategy, comms}
Toronto Library hackathon projects: Bianca, Andi, Lina, Carmen
Make a documentary in a weekend (newcountry.org): Mohamed
Section 37 transparency: Abdi {updates}
Toronto mesh network: Jon {find out more}

Thanks again to InterAccess for hosting us!