Civic hacknight #412 - The Missing Persons Project (IN-PERSON)

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

The team behind The Missing Persons Project will share how they automated the matching of unidentified remains with missing persons reports using RCMP data. They'll demo the tool, and discuss how they came across the problem, how they built the service and what they've learned.

Speakers:

• Erik Derohanian, Dyl Lavoie and Isaac McAuley are software professionals and contributors to Civic Tech Toronto.

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.
• Enter using the doors on Bay St., just north of Dundas. A volunteer from Civic Tech Toronto will be waiting near the elevators on your right!

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

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