Patrick Connolly patcon

Fork the government @ CES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tc_5bM0zSM&

Transcript from: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Fork-the-government-CES--AzmvdRn8ZkN5Zi5~cNWblZPTAg-2WkwonjChbKbl1qMVLGJW

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/autang/fork-the-government

Host: OK, good afternoon to everybody. My name is Giovanni Allegretti. I am the coordinator of the Centre for Social Studies of the project EMPATIA, enabling multi-channel participation through ICT application. As you can see on the website of the project, we are today hosting at the centre for social studies a working seminar of a colleague who comes from Taiwan, whose name is Audrey Tang.

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Hi there,

Oh yes, this is exactly the sort of consultation I was looking for right now, as I've started to investigate the FOI request process at the provincial and municipal level. I am presuming that they are informed by the Federal act.

For a little bit of context, I'm a community member (and co-organizer) for a group called Civic Tech Toronto. We meet at weekly hacknights to work on a civil society projects. (I'm reaching out to you personally, not as a representative of that group.)

Basically, in order to build really interesting systems on top of the government systems, which could automate and improve the process, several changes would be /immensely/ helpful:

1a) Ability to submit FOI requests online via webform. 1b) Ability to submit FOI requests via API. My goal is to build this API regardless, and in order to build this, I simply need (1a) a webform that can be submitted programmatically. But an official one would be a nice bonus.

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these are some visionaries aren't they I mean really incredible incredible and I don't have all the answers so I'm just gonna say that but I might have some good questions going back to the president's welcome so when something is the first that means that there's no precedent there's no tradition that you have to follow so you can break up the

Principles for Handling Meetings with Civic Tech Toronto community member, Patrick Connolly

Inspired by Principles for Handling Official Visits to Digital Minister, Audrey Tang.

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