Toronto RHoKs it Out of the Park
Mixing open data, developers and a wicked community space, Toronto hacked for humanity for the fourth time this weekend. Starting with seven diverse ideas: one relating to safer biking in the city, two engagement applications, one specific to water issues in First Nations communities and the other on environmental activism. There was a wound triage app, a crowdsourced language resource tool and open data projects around building development, accessibility and tree cover in Toronto. We mixed local and internationally focused projects in a really great way. This was by far the most exciting RHoK that has happened in Toronto yet. We has virtual collaborations with RHoK events in Hamilton, Montreal, Berlin and Milwaukee. We saw teammates mentoring each other, learning new skills and sharing between teams when they got stuck on an idea or task. There were challenges, of course, but teams rose to them and found workarounds as best they could.
It was an inspiring weekend where participants hopefully left with a feeling the spirit of innovation, collaboration and dedication to making our city, country and world a better place! Toronto really "rhok-ed” it out of the park at the Centre for Social Innovation this weekend.
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