Civic Hacknight #471: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data and civic tech
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Topic: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data and civic tech
Join us for a talk about open data and civic tech as we look at Fern, a crowdsourced web app designed to help residents of Toronto find family doctors who are currently accepting new patients. With over 2 million Ontarians without a family doctor and no provincial open data system providing real-time information, accessing primary care has become increasingly difficult. Sidra will demonstrate how Fern addresses this issue through community-driven solutions, and highlight the importance of government-released open data in improving healthcare access. The talk will explore how open data empowers civic tech communities to create tools that meet public needs and improve lives. Learn how Fern was developed (in a day!), rapid prototyping, and the pivotal role open data plays in solving real-world challenges.
Speaker: Sidra Mahmood
Sidra is a senior builder and technologist with a love of responsible data and client-centered product/service design. From community-powered web applications to public sector solutions, her work is all about making complex digital experiences simpler and a snap to use. As a service designer, she thrives on developing build usable tools and products for the public that give people more of their day back.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs to ship user management, SSO, SCIM, and other enterprise features in minutes instead of months. Some of the hottest startups in the world are powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.
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Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin you app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Civic Hacknight #471: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data and civic tech
Topic: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data and civic tech
Join us for a talk about open data and civic tech as we look at Fern, a crowdsourced web app designed to help residents of Toronto find family doctors who are currently accepting new patients. With over 2 million Ontarians without a family doctor and no provincial open data system providing real-time information, accessing primary care has become increasingly difficult. Sidra will demonstrate how Fern addresses this issue through community-driven solutions, and highlight the importance of government-released open data in improving healthcare access. The talk will explore how open data empowers civic tech communities to create tools that meet public needs and improve lives. Learn how Fern was developed (in a day!), rapid prototyping, and the pivotal role open data plays in solving real-world challenges.
Speaker: Sidra Mahmood
Sidra is a senior builder and technologist with a love of responsible data and client-centered product/service design. From community-powered web applications to public sector solutions, her work is all about making complex digital experiences simpler and a snap to use. As a service designer, she thrives on developing build usable tools and products for the public that give people more of their day back.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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