Ottawa Civic Tech Revival

Ottawa Civic Tech (YOWCT) is a community of citizens from diverse sectors and experiences who are interested in better understanding our complex social and civic challenges and building solutions at the intersection of technology, design, data, policy, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and citizen engagement. First launched in 2016, Ottawa Civic Tech took a break for obvious reasons in early 2020 - now it's time to revive it!

This will be a networking event for anyone interested in Ottawa Civic Tech, in reconnecting with each other, and in helping determine a future direction.

Agenda
18:00 - Social time
18:10 - Welcome and Introductions (everyone included) - Your name + One hopeful headline from the future.
- an Introduction from Synapcity, Data for Good, others?

18:30 - Where we are now and where we came from
- What is Civic Tech?
- Civic Tech Ottawa history
- Past project: Lucas on GoC Spending (which has grown into https://govcanadacontracts.ca/)
- Any other projects?

19:00 - The future of Ottawa Civic Tech

- report on the survey results (Ryan and Celeste)

- Breakout group Session 1: (10min discussion, 10min report back to group):
Should we contribute to projects? What types of projects? Existing projects? Examples?

- Breakout group Session 2: (10min discussion, 10min report back to group):
Do we want to have speakers? How do we want to organize (Slack, Google group, etc)? How many times per month (what night)?

A survey

Help us shape the future of Civic Tech Ottawa by completing this survey sharing your interests, skills, and event preferences. Your feedback will guide future programming and help us serve the needs and interests of our community.