Presenters: Terri Chu (@TerriChu) & Alison Uttley (@AlisonUttley) from Why Should I Care? (@WSIC_Canada)
“Why Should I Care?” hosts free monthly events to interest the community (particularly young people) in issues pertaining to public policy. As JFK famously said, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all”. WSIC’s mission is to make pertinent issues interesting, and educate voters in hope of raising the level of political discourse.
Attendance:Â 65 hackers!
Breakout Groups
| Project | Lead | Description / Needs |
| Civic Tech 101 | Maju | Come here if it’s your first time! |
| Budgetpedia | Henrik | Make the city’s budget more accessible, easier to understand – Need UI / Frontend / React |
| DemocracyKit | Alexia | Online resource kit to facilitate government campaign runs – Future planning/discussion |
| Guerilla Archiving | Dawn | Preserving government datasets in peril – Need tools / technical things |
| City Transportation | Raphael | TTC tracking / scraping / data manipulation – Need SQL / web |
| Carding / Regulated Interactions | Sharky | Issues related to carding / racial profiling, make legislation and policies more digestible |
| Parkdale Urban Planning | Mercedes | Community economic development initiative – housing, etc – Need user-driven design, platform prototyping |
| Data 102 | Brianna | Judgement-free space to learn data / R |