Hacknight #80

Thematic Digital Funds & Civic Tech

with Tris Lumley

Recording

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What can we learn from civic tech about investing in tech in thematic areas of social sector? Tris Lumley speaks on civic tech.

Speakers

Tris Lumley

Tris is Director of Innovation & Development at NPC – a London-based think tank and consultancy working to help transform the social sector through the use of data, technology and evidence. Tris is working on developing pooled grant funds that focus on a particular thematic area (currently women’s empowerment and youth development), are built on collaboration between nonprofits and service providers, and bring in the technology sector to apply its skills and solutions to social issues and opportunities. At the heart of this model is user-centred research and design – mapping people’s pathways through their lived experience, and then mapping technology against those pathways. The aim of the model is to get funding to focus on real problems and solutions, driven by user insight, not organizational perspectives.

Presenter: Tris Lumley (@trisml (https://twitter.com/trisml))

Tris is Director of Innovation & Development at NPC – a London-based think tank and consultancy working to help transform the social sector through the use of data, technology and evidence. Tris is working on developing pooled grant funds that focus on a particular thematic area (currently women’s empowerment and youth development), are built on collaboration between nonprofits and service providers, and bring in the technology sector to apply its skills and solutions to social issues and opportunities. At the heart of this model is user-centred research and design – mapping people’s pathways through their lived experience, and then mapping technology against those pathways. The aim of the model is to get funding to focus on real problems and solutions, driven by user insight, not organizational perspectives.

Tris will be a plenary speaker at Transform the Sector (http://transform.thesector.ca) this Thursday, February 23rd at the Mars Centre, organized by Powered by Data (http://poweredbydata.org).

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. Here’s our Code of Conduct.

Eightieth hacknight; 65 participants.

Presenter: Tris Lumley @trisml

Tris Lumley’s slides from Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Feb 21 2017

from Civic Tech Toronto

Breakout groups: