Civic hacknight #244 VIRTUAL: Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool

• Topic:

Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool

What does product development look like when responding to the shifting landscape of a pandemic? Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool sprung up from code shared by Alberta Health Services and has shifted and twisted through many iterations in the two months since. Learn how we balanced usability with syndromic surveillance, plain language with medical precision and how user feedback loops and open source software remain at the heart of our work.
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/

Spencer Daniels Bio

Spencer Daniels is a Senior Product Manager with the Ontario Digital Service. Some of his other recent work includes overhauling Ontario’s Environmental Registry and becoming a dad (again). He believes that software, like people, is always a work in progress.

Tweet him @spncrd
Follow the Ontario Digital Service at https://Medium.com/OntarioDigital

https://medium.com/ontariodigital/building-the-new-environmental-registry-of-ontario-e88145aae3a

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-digital-service

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Join us this week from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you are practicing social isolation, for a virtual civic tech hacknight!

• Check-in details:

Join us via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09
Webcams and mics optional, but encouraged!

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• Accessibility:

We're exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible, but at the moment we only provide video of the presentation slides and audio.

• 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:

6:45-7:00 = Civic Tech 101
7:00-7:10 = Welcome and Introductions
7:10-7:45 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:45-9:00 = Breakout groups (go make something!)
> 9:00 = Civic Tech Toronto Virtual Hang Out

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Hope to see you Tuesday!