Date: Apr 14, 2020
Topic: Recap from Code for Canada Summit
Civic Tech Toronto co-organizers Curtis McCord and Emily Macrae will share learnings from Code for Canada’s first ever Summit, which brought together public servants, residents and entrepreneurs using technology and design to change people’s lives for the better.
Find out how technology is changing policies, programs and practices within government and what that means for grassroots civic tech initiatives across the country.
Speakers:
- Curtis McCord – Curtis McCord is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, where his research examines public engagement processes and technology development. To do this, Curtis takes an interdisciplinary approach that blends methods and frameworks from Systems Thinking, Science and Technology Studies, Political Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Past projects have included a deconstruction of Budget Talks, Ontario’s digital pre-budgetary consultation, an examination of Sidewalk Toronto’s engagement methods and project scope, as well as collaborations on critical approaches to requirements engineering. Curtis has been attending Civic Tech Toronto since 2015, and for the last year, has been volunteering at CTTO as part of his dissertation research.
- Emily Macrae – Emily Macrae is a writer and organizer combining policy analysis with lived experience to build accessible digital and urban environments. Over the course of three years with Civic Tech Toronto, she has hacked on the BikeSpace project, asked for help learning Python and filled many roles as a co-organizer.