Open North

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Presenter: Jean-Noé Landry

Jean-Noé is Executive Director of Open North (http://opennorth.ca/) (@opennorth (http://twitter.com/opennorth)), Canada’s leading open data non-profit. Open North works with parliaments, governments, media organizations, non-profits, and supports civic tech initiatives. Open North is a steward of the International Open Data Charter, an anchor of the International Open Data Conference roadmap (http://od4d.com/roadmap/assets/files/report-iodc-2016-web.pdf), and actively involved in the Open Government Partnership.

Open North runs projects designed to engage data users and promote inter-sectoral collaboration, while offering open data leadership training for civil servants and consulting for city managers. Open North currently works with the National Energy Board, supports the Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada asses the digital capacity of the settlement newcomer sector, and provides technical advice to the Government of Ontario in creating Community Hubs.

A leading open data activist in Canada and international democracy expert, Jean-Noé recently co-established the Canadian Open Government Civil Society Network to address the civic mobilization and communication gaps with government on open government issues.

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!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion 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/).

This venue is accessible.