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️️ Tue June 9 → 7pm • in-person & online
Lightning updates from four Civic Tech Toronto projects: Landlord & Tenant Board data explorer, BikeSpace, Technologists for Democracy, and Civic Dashboard. See what's new!
✚ discussions & breakouts!
Jun 9th 7:00PM: Topic: Project updates This week we'll hear quick updates from four different projects that are Civic Tech Toronto meetup regulars:
Guild (guild.host)
️️ Tue June 2 → 7pm • in-person & online
Using AI in your civic tech work but unsure how to build responsibly? Learn how Smol Gardens, a civic tech accountability framework, can help through a hands-on vibecoding workshop!
✚ discussions & breakouts!
Jun 2nd 7:00PM: Topic: Smol Gardens: Accountable AI for Civic Tech The Smol Gardens project is an approach to building civic tech grounded in continuous accountability to affected communities, transparency about tradeoffs, and openness to critique to strengthen community agency and democratic self-governance. In the presentation, we'll share the current state of AI-enabled web design, a self-auditing impact framework, and small language models as a good alternative to LLMs.
Guild (guild.host)
️ Tue May 26 → 7pm • in-person & online
Maple Scan helped thousands of Canadians support Canadian products in response to the 2025 tariffs. Sasha Ivanov will tell the story of how this viral app, featured on major news networks, brought volunteers across the country together to make product information more transparent.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
May 26th 7:00PM: Topic: From Tariffs to Transparency: The Story of Maple Scan As the 2025 tariffs sparked a nationwide Buy Canadian movement, Maple Scan climbed to #4 on the App Store and helped thousands of Canadians make more informed shopping decisions. With over 700,000 products scanned, this talk tells the story of how a weekend project became a viral civic-tech app featured on major news networks, powered by community feedback, volunteers, and Canadians across the country working together to make product information more transparent.
Guild (guild.host)
Tue May 19 → 7pm • in-person & online
The housing system isn't broken from lack of listings — it's missing an intelligence layer. Bisola Mariam on what that means and how to fix it.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
May 19th 7:00PM: Topic: The Future of Housing is Intelligence, Not Listings, Not Showings The housing system is not broken because there are not enough listings. It is broken because there is no intelligence layer between the people who need housing and the people who have it.
Guild (guild.host)
