Every Tuesday evening, citizens meet at Civic Tech Toronto to collaborate on projects aimed at finding solutions to civic challenges.
Listed below are a snippet of the projects you can contribute to.
Budgetpedia Alpha
The mission of this project is to support informed debate about the Toronto budget. Specifically, provide tools for activists to facilitate insight into the Toronto budget contents, provide ready access to annual budget process information, and more.
Lead: Henrik Bechmann
Slack: #budgetpedia-gen
Toronto Meshnet Alpha
Meshnets are highly distributed, redundant intranet networks. A series of nodes, usually fashioned from cannibalized routers, emit signals that create a free self-contained and self-reliant network that’s accessible to any internet capable devices within range. We are dedicated to the growth of free-to-use wireless Internet access in Toronto’s public and publicly accessible spaces.
Leads: Benedict Lau, Garry Ing, Dawn Walker
Chat: #tomesh
Toronto Councilmatic Alpha
The purpose of this project is to create a beautiful citizen-controlled website that tracks all things related to City Council: the legislation introduced and passed, its various committees and the meetings they hold, and the councillors themselves.
Lead: Patrick Connolly
Slack: #councilmatic-toronto
City of Brains Project Experiment
The purpose of this project is to develop an understanding of how people access mental health services in Toronto, to share those stories to help others find their way to help, to identify common challenges in those stories, and then, design and develop technology solutions to support people in overcoming those challenges.
Lead: Mark Freeman
Slack: #city_of_brains
Free the Electorate Experiment
Ontario election results are posted on the Elections Ontario website, but generally aren’t readily available outside election cycles, when the information is in the press. Poll-by-poll results are available as pdfs and spreadsheets back to 2007, and prior to that only basic election results are published online. We want to make this data more easily available by creating a set of standard documents and a database, as well as visualizations of that data for public use.
Leads: Peter Rose, Ann Catton
Slack: #freetheelectorate
Citizen Data Portal Experiment
The purpose of this project is to create a community-managed platform that will collect all Toronto datasets in a single place, whether they originate from official city sources or from citizens.
Lead: Patrick Connolly
Slack: #data-portal