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About
Civic Tech Toronto describes itself as a community of Torontonians working out how to solve civic challenges through technology and design, and it works the way that sounds: weekly hacknights, open to anyone, running since the first one on 21 July 2015. It is volunteer-run, and its projects belong to the community rather than to a company. Two of its volunteers, David and Yan, demoed BikeSpace at Best of TechTO in March 2019: a web app that maps where Toronto needs better bike parking, built for the last fifty metres of a bike trip where the racks are full, broken, or occupied by an abandoned frame. They told the room that more than a hundred volunteers had worked on the project across over 75 hacknights and more than 70 additional sessions at City Hall, that the City of Toronto had funded hosting and a part-time project manager for about eighteen months, and that Code for Canada had supported it — and, as the designer on the project noted, that five designers once worked on the same screen without disaster. BikeSpace launched with the City in 2018 and its reports are published as an open dataset on the City of Toronto's open data portal.
Backers
Not a company and not funded by investors. It is a volunteer community; the City of Toronto paid for BikeSpace hosting and a part-time project manager, and Code for Canada supported the work.
Quick answers
What is Civic Tech Toronto?
A volunteer community that uses technology and design to work on civic problems in Toronto. It has run open weekly hacknights since July 2015 and maintains projects including BikeSpace and Civic Dashboard.
What is BikeSpace?
A free web app, built by Civic Tech Toronto volunteers with the City of Toronto and Code for Canada, that lets cyclists report bike-parking problems — full or broken racks, or spaces taken by abandoned bikes — on a map planners can use.
Who built BikeSpace?
More than a hundred Civic Tech Toronto volunteers, across over 75 hacknights and more than 70 sessions at City Hall, as the team said when demoing it at Best of TechTO in March 2019. The City funded hosting and a part-time project manager.