Date: April 22, 2025 Topic: Documenting War Crimes with Volunteers – Bellingcat’s Open Source Approach Come and hear Giancarlo Fiorella, Director of Research & Training at Bellingcat,… Read More »Hacknight #490 with Giancarlo Fiorella: Documenting War Crimes with Volunteers – Bellingcat’s Open Source Approach
Date: April 15, 2025 Topic: Chinese Disinformation and Electoral Interference How Beijing leverages Influence Operations for its Political Agendas Speakers: Sze-Fung Lee – Sze-Fung Lee is an… Read More »Hacknight #489 with Sze-Fung Lee: Chinese Disinformation and Electoral Interference
Date: April 08, 2025 Topic: Making the Invisible Visible: Tracking and Visualizing Political Advertising on Meta Platforms with PoliDashboard.org Discover how political advertisers in Canada are chasing… Read More »Hacknight #488 with Philip Mai, Anatoliy Gruzd: Making the Invisible Visible: Tracking and Visualizing Political Advertising on Meta Platforms with PoliDashboard.org
Date: April 01, 2025 Topic: Gray Hat Social Media – Surveilling Online Political Discourse in the Public Interest Social media has become the place where we see… Read More »Hacknight #487 with Alexei Abrahams: Gray Hat Social Media – Surveilling Online Political Discourse in the Public Interest
Date: March 25, 2025 Topic: Accurate, scalable and secure AI for the public sector Tara Khani, Co-Founder and CEO of Edge AI Innovations, will talk about accurate,… Read More »Hacknight #486 with Tara Khani: Accurate, scalable and secure AI for the public sector
Date: March 18, 2025 Topic: From News to Action: How The Green Line’s Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement How can local news empower communities to take action?… Read More »Hacknight #485 with Anita Li, Sebastian Tansil: From News to Action: How The Green Line’s Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
Date: March 11, 2025 Topic: Mapping Metroscapes to Support Public Advocacy At this talk, Trevor Heywood will talk about the nearly 3,000 kilometres of “Metroscapes” he has… Read More »Hacknight #484 with Trevor Heywood: Mapping Metroscapes to Support Public Advocacy
Date: March 04, 2025 Topic: How can civic tech help improve government service delivery? For over two decades, civic tech communities across Canada and internationally have been… Read More »Hacknight #483 with Sam Burton: How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?
Date: Feb 25, 2025 Topic: From Sensors to Insights: Using IoT, AI, and People to Monitor Watershed How can technology and community collaboration transform the way we… Read More »Hacknight #482 with Jason Spitkoski: From Sensors to Insights: Using IoT, AI, and People to Monitor Watershed
Date: Feb 18, 2025 Topic: Would data help you depute at City Council meetings? At this talk, Veronica Yeung (an employee on the City of Toronto’s Open… Read More »Hacknight #481 with Veronica Yeung: Would data help you depute at City Council meetings?
Date:Â Feb 11, 2025 Topic:Â Behind the Scenes: Creating Toronto’s Climate Voting Records Website Climate Voting Records Toronto is your go-to interactive tool for tracking how Toronto… Read More »Hacknight #480Â Behind the Scenes: Creating Toronto’s Climate Voting Records Website
Date: Feb 4, 2025 Topic: Crowdsorsa – a mobile game to engage your citizens! Katja Boutou introduces Crowdsorsa – an innovative platform that uses gamification and crowdsourcing… Read More »Hacknight #479 with Katja Boutou: Crowdsorsa – a mobile game to engage your citizens!
Date: Jan 28, 2025 Topic: The Civics Project – Indexing all of Canadian politics While the government has grown increasingly complex, the bias in news… Read More »Hacknight #478 – The Civics Project – Indexing all of Canadian politics with Mikaal Naik
Date: Jan 21, 2025 Topic: Behind The Yellowhead Treaty Map – Reclaiming Indigenous Perspectives on Treaties in Canada Treaties are the highest law of the… Read More »Hacknight #477 – Behind The Yellowhead Treaty Map – Reclaiming Indigenous Perspectives on Treaties in Canada with Yumi Numata & Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
Date: Jan 14, 2025 Topic: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto After a PhD in biophysics, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher turned her hobby… Read More »Hacknight #476 – From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto with Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher
Date: Jan 07, 2025 Topic: Introducing HansardTube Matt Malone will introduce the HansardTube project, aiming to automatically upload Canadian parliamentary videos to YouTube, so people… Read More »Hacknight #475 – Introducing HansardTube with Matt Malone
Date: Dec 17, 2024 Topic: The evolution of retail business: Bloor St (Spadina/Christie) For the past 30 years, Prof. Martin J. Osborne has conducted an… Read More »Hacknight #474 – The evolution of retail business: Bloor St (Spadina/Christie) with Martin J. Osborne
Date: Dec 10, 2024 Topic: Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem Are you tired of the loud vehicles on our streets? Many… Read More »Hacknight #473 – Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem with Reuben Peckham & Ingrid Buday
Date: Dec 03, 2024 Topic: Empowering Climate Action in Every Language This presentation introduces a powerful Multilingual Climate Chatbot, designed to bridge the gap in… Read More »Hacknight #472 – Empowering Climate Action in Every Language with Helena Yu, Luis Ticas, and Maryam Tavakoli
Date: Nov 26, 2024 Topic: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data Join us for a talk about open data and civic tech… Read More »Hacknight #471 – Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data with Sidra Mahmood
Date: Nov 19, 2024 Topic: Canada’s National Action Plan on Open Government An opportunity to provide input into the commitments of Canada’s 2025-29 National Action… Read More »Hacknight #470 – Canada’s National Action Plan on Open Government with Cara Scarfone
Date: Nov 12, 2024 Topic: Report-back from the Design and Tech hackathon A reflection on organizing an independent hackathon in Toronto and sharing the outcomes.… Read More »Hacknight #469 – Report-back from the Design and Tech hackathon with Hannah Rosen
Date: Nov 05, 2024 Topic: Policy2Code Challenge @ BenCon At BenCon 2024, BDO Canada and Civictech Toronto presented two groundbreaking projects that harness Generative AI… Read More »Hacknight #468 – Policy2Code Challenge @ BenCon with Jerry Wilson, (David) Yuan Xu, and Alexander Chen
Date: Oct 29, 2024 Topic: Automatic TTC detour detection Emily Gates from Transit will talk about the app’s newly released functionality to detect and share… Read More »Hacknight #467 – Automatic TTC detour detection with Emily Gates & Marisa Henry
Date: Oct 22, 2024 Topic: Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate We will talk a little bit about who we are… Read More »Hacknight #466 – Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate with Blair Ellis & Michael Traynor
Date: Oct 15, 2024 Topic: Bike Lane Uprising with Christina Whitehouse Learn how to report bike lane obstructions with Bike Lane Uprising’s mobile app. Hear… Read More »Hacknight #465 – Bike Lane Uprising with Christina Whitehouse with Christina Whitehouse