Projects

Planning Applications

Toronto Meshnet

We help communities create better networks with open source and peer-to-peer technologies that promote digital literacy and privacy.

Adroit - Toronto City Hall app

A mobile app for providing input on upcoming votes in city hall. An interface to the Toronto City Hall API.

TheCarded.ca

provide user-friendly resources for youth and people affected by racial profiling.

Budgetpedia

Making the City of Toronto budget more accessible to promote informed debate; advocate for better budgeting

Ample Labs

Ample Labs is a social start-up using AI & data to help cities prevent homelessness.

Basecount

Mapping the capacity and current occupancy of City of Toronto emergency shelters

COVID Connect

a lightweight process to match design and technology volunteers to existing COVID-19 initiatives and mutual aid projects that need digital support

TTC Subway times

A scraper to grab and publish TTC subway arrival times.

Toronto Tech Mentoring

Aims to help homeless and at-risk youth escape the cycle of poverty by helping them to use tech skills.

Civic Hall Toronto

Civic Hall Toronto aims to create a hub for civic innovation in the city.

Tabs Toronto

Tabs sends email alerts for new Toronto city council/committee agenda items.

COVID Graphic Model

Awaiting further content from the community’s oral historians.

Chalmers Cards

Chalmers Cards are wooden information booklets that are designed to be given out at Toronto's emergency shelters and to folks sleeping on the streets of Toronto. They explain how to access social services!

Chalmers Signal (OpenShelter.space)

The Chalmers Signal hopes to make shelter occupancy data more accessible and faster to communicate among shelters in Toronto. It is an internet connected device that publishes real-time occupancy data amongst shelters around Toronto!

Civic Dashboard

Figuring out how to make city council's activity accessible!

Pol.is Toronto

Polis is a good engagement tool for large-scale, open-ended feedback gathering.

Bikespace

BikeSpace is a free web app run by volunteers from Civic Tech Toronto that allows users to report issues with bicycle parking in Toronto.

Book Club

Civic Tech Toronto reading and discussing books together.

Can I Take my Bike on the TTC

Awaiting content from the community’s oral historians.

Civic Spark

A two-day gathering for organizers, innovators, and community builders working toward a better future of public life.

Civic Tech Toolkit

Equiping contributors with patterns and mindsets to drive impact collaboratively.

Climate Voting Records Toronto

To track and show how climate-related items are being voted on within Toronto City Council.

CodeAcross

Awaiting further content from the community’s oral historians.

Councilmatic Toronto

Awaiting further content from the community’s oral historians.

Danforth Dad

Awaiting further content from the community’s archivist.

Democracy Distributed

We’re building an open platform where anyone can document and understand how organizations work — from a small community group to a city government.

Free the Electorate

Make elections results more accessible outside of media cycles.

Open Cabinet

Info on what cabinet is doing in Ottawa can be hard to find and use. We’re trying to make it easy.

Guerilla Archiving - Environmental Data Gathering Initiative (EDGI)

Coordinating tech talk about the Guerilla Archiving Event to support Internet Archive's End of Term harvesting project.

Democracy Kit

A not-for-profit startup working to open the democratic process by publishing a shared campaign resource package for councillor and trustee races.

Health Atlas

Mapping project for Mississauga Halton Health Integration Network

Our Data Futures

Collaboration to develop a community perspective on "data trusts" and create education materials around the topic of "data trusts".

Law & Design CoLab

The Law & Design CoLab is a volunteer-led nonprofit based in Toronto. It conceived, scoped, and built digital products by engaging with legal experts and community stakeholders.

Open Data Profiler

Building a profiler for city of toronto open datasets

Missing Persons Project

facilitates the identification of missing persons by comparing physical characteristics and personal information with unidentified remains.

EI eligibility tool

Awaiting further content from the community’s oral historians.

HousingNowTO

Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units

Know Your Vote T.O.

Open Water Data

For open water swimmers, paddleboarders, surfers and other beach-goers to check beach conditions.

Parking Tickets Toronto

Parks and Rec Bot

a bot for Toronto Parks and Rec

Place and Politics in Toronto

Mapping the 2022 Toronto Election

Plain Language Project

Police Tech Audit

Technology Audits of Law Enforcement Agencies such as the Toronto Police Services.

Connect TO

Potential locations for public wi-fi

Rate the Landlord

We are a community platform that elevates tenant voices to promote landlord accountability.

Respitely

Section 37 funding

For discussion of a potential project related to Section 37 funding.

TPL Digital Innovation Hub booking app

TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide

PDF, iPhone and Android apps, and other stuff

TaxGPT

TaxGPT generates answers based on publicly information from the Canada Revenue Agency website.

Techfugees Toronto

Techfugees Toronto related work stream - specific focus on refugee housing challenges in GTA

Toronto Multiplexes

TBD

Technologists for Democracy

We are a diverse group of Canadians who aim to make sure that government agencies and tech companies are held accountable to the public.

The Grocery Tracker

The Toronto Bids Archive

Toronto Lobbying Report

database about lobbyist activities in Toronto

Toronto Tree Inequities

relationship between Toronto neighbourhoods' street tree density, income, and visible minority population, utilizing spatial autoregression methods

TorontoBot

Torontoverse

Tracking Gentle Density in Toronto

Visualizing 10 years (2012 to 2022) of Secondary Suite and Laneway / Garden Suite building permits in Toronto

WelcomeHomeTO

Collecting all the amazing resources Torontonians have been providing our refugee community. Covering Peel, Toronto and York regions.

Weather Report Card

grading calculations based on how well the previous forecasts were

Wild Combination

Women and Color

An online community of talented women and people of color available for speaking opportunities at tech-related events.

Youth Employment Challenge

#greathumanexperiences

Awaiting further content from the community’s oral historians.

Speed Camera

itsneerby

Discover things you didn’t know about the city’s past with a photo web map.

Library Passport

Explore libraries, check in, and track your journey with your kids.

tRacket - Noise Meter Project

We’re making it easy and affordable to collect data about noise

time2reach Transit Map

time2reach is an interactive map that lets you see how far you can go just using public transit.

tobus.ca

A extremely fast and simple website, parsing TTC's ETA data.