Civic hacknight #375 - Toronto Tree Data (IN-PERSON)

*This is the in-person registration for this event. To attend virtually via Zoom, please RSVP here.

Topic: Toronto Tree Data

• Ethan Sansom will be talking about the correlation between access to urban forestry (street trees) and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in Toronto and across North America. They'll also give a quick demo of how Toronto's Open Data Portal can be used to explore how other civic resources are distributed across Toronto neighbourhoods.

Speaker: Ethan Sansom

• Ethan is a Data Analyst at the Clean Air Partnership in Toronto, where they create vehicle inventories to track municipal greenhouse gas emissions. Ethan also works at the University of Toronto, assisting with research for a Universal Basic Income pilot project.

Join us in person:

• We're meeting at the office of the Ontario Digital Service at 595 Bay St. Suite 1002. Take the elevator to the 10th floor.
• Our in-person venue is limited to 25 people and we encourage all attendees to wear masks.

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

Accessibility:

• We're exploring ways to make our hybrid hacknights more accessible. At the moment we provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning.

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca