Civic Hacknight #485: From News to Action: How The Green Line's Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
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Topic: From News to Action: How The Green Line's Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
How can local news empower communities to take action?
Join The Green Line as we introduce Documenters Canada, a groundbreaking initiative training Torontonians to document public meetings and hold power accountable.
Learn how we’re moving beyond traditional journalism to equip communities with the tools to advocate for themselves—starting in Alexandra Park, Kensington Market and Chinatown.
Speakers: Anita Li and Sebastian Tansil
Anita Li is publisher and CEO of The Green Line, an award-winning news outlet in Toronto that delivers community-driven solutions journalism. She also serves as Journalism Innovator-in-Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Sebastian Tansil is community engagement lead at The Green Line, where he runs the Documenters program.
Venue:
We're being generously hosted by Mozilla during March!
Due to security requirements, participants need to be registered with Mozilla security.
Those who’ve RSVPed by 11th March (and whose Guild profile includes their first and last name) will be auto-registered. (We will only provide your name to Mozilla.)
Those who RSVP after that will need to register (name and email address) upon arrival.
RSVP before 11th March to skip the line!
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:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
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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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
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.
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Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Civic Hacknight #485: From News to Action: How The Green Line's Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
Topic: From News to Action: How The Green Line's Documenters Are Changing Civic Engagement
How can local news empower communities to take action?
Join The Green Line as we introduce Documenters Canada, a groundbreaking initiative training Torontonians to document public meetings and hold power accountable.
Learn how we’re moving beyond traditional journalism to equip communities with the tools to advocate for themselves—starting in Alexandra Park, Kensington Market and Chinatown.
Speakers: Anita Li and Sebastian Tansil
Anita Li is publisher and CEO of The Green Line, an award-winning news outlet in Toronto that delivers community-driven solutions journalism. She also serves as Journalism Innovator-in-Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Sebastian Tansil is community engagement lead at The Green Line, where he runs the Documenters program.
Venue:
We're being generously hosted by Mozilla during March!
Due to security requirements, participants need to be registered with Mozilla security.
Those who’ve RSVPed by 11th March (and whose Guild profile includes their first and last name) will be auto-registered. (We will only provide your name to Mozilla.)
Those who RSVP after that will need to register (name and email address) upon arrival.
RSVP before 11th March to skip the line!
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:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
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:
Get in touch!
hi@guild.host