Civic hacknight #208 with Sam Jeffers: Who Targets Me?

Name: Civic hacknight #208 with Sam Jeffers: Who Targets Me?
Start: 2019-09-10T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-09-10T21:00:00-04:00
Location: PwC Experience Centre

Hosted By

David C. and 2 others

Civic hacknight #208 with Sam Jeffers: Who Targets Me?

Details

Topic:

Tonight we welcome Sam Jeffers, the co-founder of Who Targets Me?, all the way from London, UK!

Who Targets Me is a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox that monitors the use of political advertising on social media. It helps researchers and journalists understand the use of targeted social media advertising by political campaigns.

The project was founded by Sam Jeffers and Louis Knight-Webb in 2017. It’s citizen-led and non-partisan. Its goal is to increase transparency and trust in democracy.

https://whotargets.me/en/

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 (or other food) to snack on!

Presenter:

Sam Jeffers, co-founder of Who Targets Me?, and a Visiting Global Fellow at the Ryerson Leadership Lab.

Social Media Cheat Codes:

https://twitter.com/WhoTargetsMe
http://facebook.com/whotargetsme
https://medium.com/@WhoTargetsMe

Biographies:

Sam Jeffers is the co-founder of Who Targets Me?, and a Visiting Global Fellow at the Ryerson Leadership Lab, an action-oriented think tank building new leadership to tackle some of our most pressing challenges related to education, the environment, and democracy.

Sam is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and an experienced digital strategist who ran campaigns across Europe as Managing Director of Blue State Digital's UK office (the agency that helped elect President Obama in 2008 and 2012). He currently consults for clients including the City of London, and the United Kingdom's largest trade union.

Venue Sponsor:

Our venue sponsor for the month of September is the PwC Experience Centre!
https://www.pwc.com/ca/en/services/consulting/experience-center.html

Check-in details:

When you enter the PwC building you'll see a Civic Tech Toronto volunteer by the elevator who will let you up to the PwC Experience Centre on the 19th floor.

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 venue is physically accessible, with an elevator up to the 19th floor.
Physically accessible washrooms are also available.

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!