Date: Jan 16, 2024 Topic: Making sense of Toronto’s budget process It’s hard to make heads or tails of the City’s budget. As a large… Read More »Hacknight #426 – Making sense of Toronto’s budget process with Sam McGarva
Date: Jan 09, 2024 Topic: Building a Parks and Rec Bot with ChatGPT Ryan Merkley will discuss building civic chat bots using open data and… Read More »Hacknight #425 – Building a Parks and Rec Bot with ChatGPT with Ryan Merkley
Date: Jan 02, 2024 Topic: Discovery and redesign on disability benefits Just before the pandemic, the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) was helping Economic and Social… Read More »Hacknight #424 – Discovery and redesign on disability benefits with Jeff Maher
Date: Dec 12, 2023 Topic: Toronto’s Noise Bylaw Review Update: Due to overwhelming feedback from residents, the City has rescheduled the Noise item to the… Read More »Hacknight #423 – Toronto’s Noise Bylaw Review with Ingrid Buday
Date: Dec 05, 2023 Topic: Analyzing traffic violations on King St Last week, the School of Cities released a report that found that more than 99.7… Read More »Hacknight #422 – Analyzing traffic violations on King St with Q Chen
Date: Nov 28, 2023 Topic: Meet the City of Toronto’s Deputy CTO The City of Toronto’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Marco Palermo, is stopping by… Read More »Hacknight #421 – Meet the City of Toronto’s Deputy CTO with Marco Palermo
Date: Nov 21, 2023 Topic: Civic Tech Toronto principles and governance This week we’re turning the spotlight on ourselves! We’re proud of our principles, and… Read More »Hacknight #420 – Civic Tech Toronto principles and governance with Gabe Sawhney
Date: Nov 14, 2023 Topic: Mapping Toronto’s bicycle parking needs: BikeSpace BikeSpace is a crowdsourced web app where cyclists can anonymously report bicycle parking issues… Read More »Hacknight #419 – Mapping Toronto’s bicycle parking needs: BikeSpace with Sonal Ranjit
Date: Nov 07, 2023 Topic: Human-centred housing initiatives at the City The City of Toronto’s Service Design and Delivery team will present recent digital projects… Read More »Hacknight #418 – Human-centred housing initiatives at the City with Marisa Bernstein & Anne-Marie Croce
Date: Oct 31, 2023 Topic: Covering housing at the Toronto Star On Oct. 31, we’ll be joined by May Warren, the Toronto Star’s housing reporter.… Read More »Hacknight #417 – Covering housing at the Toronto Star with May Warren
Date: Oct 24, 2023 Topic: Mapping open shelter spaces On Oct. 24, we’ll be joined by Zachary Donsky. Zach has been leading civic tech projects… Read More »Hacknight #416 – Mapping open shelter spaces with Zachary Donsky & Saheel Acharya
Date: Oct 17, 2023 Topic: Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations On Oct. 17, we’ll be joined by Geordie Dent of the [Federation of Metro Tenants’… Read More »Hacknight #415 – Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations with Geordie Dent
Date: Oct 10, 2023 Topic: HousingNowTO On Oct. 10, we’ll be joined by Mark Richardson of [HousingNowTO](housingnowto.com). He’ll share his experience analyzing and advocating for… Read More »Hacknight #414 – HousingNowTO with Mark Richardson
Date: Oct 03, 2023 Topic: Civic tech projects using Felt [Felt](https://felt.com/) bills itself as an ‘easy and powerful way to make maps on the internet.’… Read More »Hacknight #413 – Civic tech projects using Felt with Nora Shevick
Date: Sep 26, 2023 Topic: The Missing Persons Project The team behind The Missing Persons Project will share how they automated the matching of unidentified… Read More »Hacknight #412 – The Missing Persons Project with Erik Derohanian, Dyl Lavoie, and Isaac McAuley
Date: Sep 19, 2023 Topic: The Time2Reach Transit Map Henry Nguyen will discuss the [Time2Reach transit map](https://map.henryn.ca/), which helps riders estimate travel times on public… Read More »Hacknight #411 – The Time2Reach Transit Map with Henry Nguyen
Date: Sep 12, 2023 Topic: Under the Hood of Ontario.ca Learn about the relationships and teams that support [a single government website](https://www.ontario.ca/page/government-ontario) including the design… Read More »Hacknight #410 – Under the Hood of Ontario.ca with Dara Renton
Date: Sep 05, 2023 Topic: A new TTC Arrivals app The developer of a new [TTC Arrivals](https://ttc-bus-eta.pages.dev/) app will share how and why they built… Read More »Hacknight #409 – A new TTC Arrivals app with Thomas Kam
Date: Aug 29, 2023 Topic: How good is Toronto’s open data? Toronto Open Data will present improvements to its Data Quality Scoring algorithm and interface.… Read More »Hacknight #408 – How good is Toronto’s open data? with Mackenzie Nichols
Date: Aug 22, 2023 Topic: CCI’s Innovation Governance Program Responding to Canada’s need for qualified directors and increased diversity on corporate boards, the Council of… Read More »Hacknight #407 – CCI’s Innovation Governance Program with Gabriella Boulos
Date: Aug 15, 2023 Topic: Open data for safe water recreation Join Mitch and Steve, the folks behind [OpenWaterData.com](OpenWaterData.com) and waterborne IoT devices collecting water… Read More »Hacknight #406 – Open data for safe water recreation with Steve Hulford & Mitch Bechtel
Date: Aug 08, 2023 Topic: Reducing urban noise for a healthier city Join Ingrid Buday, founder of No More Noise Toronto to see how you… Read More »Hacknight #405 – Reducing urban noise for a healthier city with Ingrid Buday
Date: Aug 01, 2023 Topic: TorontoBot: AI to make government accessible Introducing [TorontoBot](https://torontoverse.com/articles/a6_rscnPTmG_8auFQPvg7w/meet-torontobot-torontoverses-ai-powered-municipal), an open-source AI bot designed to make government more accessible. Join us… Read More »Hacknight #404 – TorontoBot: AI to make government accessible with Chris Dinn
Date: Jul 25, 2023 Topic: An Analytical Dive into the Mayoral By-Election What can the results of the recent mayoral election tell us about what… Read More »Hacknight #403 – An Analytical Dive into the Mayoral By-Election with Alex Olson
Date: Jul 18, 2023 Topic: The Disruptive Launch of Rate the Landlord [Rate the Landlord](https://ratethelandlord.org/) is a community platform that elevates tenant voices to promote… Read More »Hacknight #402 – The Disruptive Launch of Rate the Landlord with Kellen Wiltshire & RJ
Date: Jul 11, 2023 Topic: Unlocking Secret Canada A behind-the-scenes look at [SecretCanada.com](https://www.secretcanada.com/), a Globe and Mail investigation and civic tech project on freedom of… Read More »Hacknight #401 – Unlocking Secret Canada with Tom Cardoso
