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Unfinished Business Lecture - Disrupting For Good: Using the Web for Citizen Engagement

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Unfinished Business Lecture -   Disrupting For Good: Using...

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Lecture - General Admission (October 20) Ended CA$15.00 CA$1.36
Lecture - Student Admission (October 20) Ended CA$8.00 CA$1.19
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Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business Events are monthly lectures and workshops co-organized  and designed by Torch Innovation, Normative Design, and Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD. The lectures share perspectives on creativity, design and innovation and the accompanying workshops provide attendees with practical skills that they can use in their teams and organizations.

Unfinished Business Lecture - Disrupting For Good: Using the Web for Citizen Engagement (October 20, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)

Our neighborhoods have the ability to change and evolve based on the level of engagement and cooperation of their residents, governments, and supporting news and information providers. 

Ben Berkowitz of SeeClickFix will talk about how he first became involved with the Open Government movement motivated by frustrations he was having in his hometown of New Haven, CT.  He will share how the solution to his concerns is proving to to be a solution for the masses and how that solution, SeeClickFix, has become a full-time job for himself, his co-founders and the few employees who run the now business.
 
Join us to hear Ben’s insights and anecdotes from his experiences with the Open Data and Government movement as well as the hyperlocal news movement and how that could impact Toronto.


About the Speaker:

Gov 2.0 innovator Ben Berkowitz co-founded advocacy website SeeClickFix.com that allows citizens to report public works issues such as potholes, graffiti, and wayward trash directly from their mobile phones, the SeeClickFix Website or other sites using its embeddable widget. In his volunteer life he is active in the Upper State Street Association, a neighborhood and business group which he founded in 2007, in New Haven, CT. He has been a leader in the drive towards local government transparency as well a pusher of greater citizen participation in hyper-local news. Ben was nominated as one of 8 2010 Game Changers in technology by the Huffington Post.



Free seats available for OCAD faculty and students with valid OCAD ID at the door.

When & Where


OCAD
100 McCaul Street
AUDITORIUM, Main floor
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)


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Torch Innovation

At Torch Innovation we think differently about how and what people learn.  We offer a series of lectures, workshop, and community events that focus and provide a different perspective on creativity, design, and innovation and provide attendees with practical skill that they can use in their teams and organizations.