Name: Civic Hacknight #204 with Amanda Clarke: Transforming (Digital) Gov in Ontario
Start: 2019-08-13T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-08-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: PagerDuty, Inc.

Topic: Transforming (Digital) Government in Ontario

https://medium.com/@amandaerinclarke/transforming-digital-government-in-ontario-part-1-1ef2e5157108

Come help us chip away at civic challenges! We've got everything you need for a perfect Tuesday night: a presentation to learn from, some projects to contribute towards, and pizza (or other noms) to snack on!

+ Presenters:

Amanda Clarke

+ Twitter cheat codes: (related handles & hashtags)

@ae_clarke
https://link.civictech.ca/tweet

+ Biographies:

Amanda Clarke is a member of Carleton University's faculty of the School of Public Policy and Administration. Her research examines public sector reform, policymaking and civic engagement, focusing in particular on the impact and role of digital technologies in these domains. Prior to joining Carleton, Clarke completed a doctorate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scholar, a Clarendon Press scholar and a fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is co-editor of "Issues in Canadian Governance" and author of "Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age". In 2017, Dr. Clarke was appointed Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair.

+ Venue sponsor:

To be announced.

+ Check-in details:

If you run into any issues, then please send a message to our "doorbell" at 647-812-2649 (647-8122-6IX), and the organizers will get a notification.

+ Accessibility:

We can offer 2 transit tokens per participant per week to those in need of transportation support to get to hacknights. Please ask an organizer to take advantage of this. (We have a set budget for tokens, and if we’re running low, we will make every attempt to update the event description to say so.)

+ About us:

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 http://civictech.ca
Here's our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!

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