Third hacknight! 11 participants!
Presenter: Howard Tam
Breakout groups:
- [idea] Online database of accessibility of private venues – Rachel
- [challenge] Making sense of Toronto city budget – Henrik
- [idea] ON legislation tracker – Amanda
Third hacknight! 11 participants!
Presenter: Howard Tam
Breakout groups:
Legislation Tracker Notes – Aug 4: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRQsPE6Sf2vD31c_TjkBEU6n_YTBFnncdDNl-opg1SA/edit
Rachel’s project working doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yx_qv60QPaZ5BLVnA0Xe3e5QColgv1BMthJy-7AycXA/edit#heading=h.jybf0wkmt043
We (Andi, Bianca, Helen, Kevin and Melanie) made a few updates Aug 4.
Contacted the City to see about accessibility data, also started outreach to the accessibility community and added a few resources that we found online.
Workgroup: Toronto Budget Accessibility
Participants: Henrik Bechmann, Matthew Gray
The objective was to start the process of evaluating, for impact and scope, the seven project focus options that had been generated during the previous workgroup session. This would provide the basis for selecting a project, and for archiving remaining worthy candidates to a backlog. To achieve this, I suggested applying the impact mapping process – asking four questions of each option: Why? Who? How? What? The first three provide impact, and the last provides scope.
We had a wide ranging exploratory discussion of the existing options, and in the process added an eighth option:
8. bureaucracy hacks
consider cultural comparisons to European models, and look at European hacks, to compare compliance-based and value-based management approaches
As item 5, the budget taxonomy, seemed one of the more achievable options, we started the evaluation process there, creating a preliminary set of goals, and creating a preliminary set of audiences (the “Why” and the “Who” of impact mapping).
We also identified a general background task:
review local budget explainer material, and usage of material in public consultations
examples: toronto star budget explainers; city of toronto material
See https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DWYPsWdXPCvol_ucFhE_o8Avwdn7zvHCLMbKLHFqDfU – the Project Focus Options section – for details