Civic hacknight #260 VIRTUAL - Re-imagining a Future for Political Participation

• Topic:

The COVID19 pandemic has changed our lives drastically, making us acutely aware of both gaps and opportunities that can transform policy and systems that affect us. Join us 25, September, 2020 for an interactive discussion on what the pandemic experience reveals about the future of civic responsibility and political participation.

Facilitated by the future Lab, on behalf of the Institute of the Future, findings of this discussion will feed in to the Imaginable Project. The Imaginable Project is working across more than 50 countries to spark public conversations about our post-pandemic, post-protest future across the Internet.

#imaginable #thefutureLab #futureswewant

• Speaker:

Manik Perera of the future Lab

Manik Perera is a digital designer and artist who currently channels her experience in transition design, international development and digital interaction design through the work of the future Lab (tfL). tfL runs speculative design research projects for participatory ethical and anti racist framing of socio political issues, in the hope of fostering a kinder sense of civic consciousness. Prior to this, she worked with international development and inter-governmental organizations in Asia and Africa, and more recently with digital strategy for Canadian organizations. She holds a Masters of Design in Digital Futures (Canada).

Twitter: @the_futureLab
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manik-p-2b907616/

• Social Media Cheat Codes:

@CivicTechTO #civictech
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• Venue Sponsor:

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!

Join via your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09

Dial-in by phone in Canada:
+1 647 558 0588
Meeting ID: 858 4781 1289
Password: 008446

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat

• Accessibility:

We're exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible, but at the moment we only provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning through Rev.com.

• 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:

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

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca
Here's our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!