Civic hacknight: 229 DGTV Pilot Discussion

Name: Civic hacknight: 229 DGTV Pilot Discussion
Start: 2020-02-18T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2020-02-18T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Claude T. Bissell Building

Hosted By

David C. and Laura C.

Civic hacknight: 229 DGTV Pilot Discussion

Details

Topic:

Come help us chip away at civic problems by combining technology with the power of our community. We've got everything you need for a perfect Tuesday night: a presentation to learn from, some projects to work on, and 🍕pizza to snack on! 💧Help us be more sustainable by bringing a reusable water bottle.

Presentation Details:

DGTV (Digital Government Television) Pilot is produced and hosted by Re Open Gov contributors Derek Alton, Kejo Buchanan and Richard Pietro. Our goal is to create a news style series covering headlines and stories relating to Digital Government. We need your feedback and skills to propel this DGTV into its fullest potential.

Presenter Biography:

Kejo Buchanan is an information professional, Open Data advocate, community radio host and online master’s student. Kejo is delighted to continue these efforts on the open data and open government conversation through local community projects such as Re:Open Gov.

Richard Pietro socializes Open Government & Open Data by creating Civic Engagement as Art. Some of his projects include the 2014 Open Government Tour, “Open” – The World’s first short film on Open Government, Open Data, and Open Source, and The Open Government
Turtle: A modern fable on Open Government. Most recently the founder
of Re:Open Gov.

Social Media Cheat Codes:

@Re_Open_Gov @KejoBuchanan @RichardPietro @DerekAlton
#DGTVpilot #DigitalGovernment

@CivicTechTO #civictech
https://link.civictech.ca/tweet

Venue Sponsor:

University of Toronto Faculty of Information

Check-in details:

This month we're at University of Toronto's St. George Campus in the Bissell Building.

It's located on 140 St. George Street (at Sussex Avenue), adjacent to Robarts Library. We're meeting on the 7th Floor (Room 728).

If you run into any issues, send a message to our "doorbell" at 647-812-2649, and the organizers will get a notification.

Accessibility:

The main entrance on St. George Street has many steps. A wheelchair-accessible entrance is located around the corner from it on Sussex Avenue, on the northwest side of the building. Once you're in the building, take the elevator up to the 7th floor.

Washrooms are located on every floor and include a universal washroom on the 4th floor and a gender-neutral washroom on the 6th floor.

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!