Topic: The Civics Project - Indexing all of Canadian politics

While the government has grown increasingly complex, the bias in news coverage has emboldened.

The Civics Project’s mission is to index and summarize all of Canadian politics.

Having summarized the current House of Commons bills and votes, along with $751 billion of federal spending, Mikaal Naik from the Civics Project will discuss the project’s current progress.

We’ll also talk about future features to bring accountability and engagement to public policy.

Speaker:

Mikaal Naik is a software engineer based in Toronto. He founded the TorontoBeach.app, Canada’s first use of machine learning to predict public water quality, and currently works as design engineer at Voiceflow.com

You can find the project on X at @civicsproj

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:

https://civictech.ca/about-us

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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:

https://civictech.ca