Toronto, Canada

RHoK Global December 2011
Registration Deadline: 
Friday, December 2, 2011
Reception Date: 
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Reception Location: 
No One Writes to the Colonel
Hackathon Location: 
CSI Annex, Toronto
Hackathon Details: 

Join us for a weekend long codethon and compete for the best prize for a completed hack! Technologists, Designers, Subject Matter Experts, Concerned Citizens, Data Enthusiats and Developers will join together for a weekend of problem solving, idea hacking and innovation.By putting creativity to these scenarios, code-sprints create technological solutions to problems ranging from bike accident mapping in Toronto to a National Water crisis around access to clean water in some remote communities.
 

We're excited to announce that Toronto is partnering with Open Data Hackathon Day to hack on December 3 & 4th. The Hackathon is pleased to welcome the University of Toronto, Commons11, The Baitshop, Open DataTO, City of Toronto, CSI and Nokia as sponsors and community partners.

 

 

Main Event:

CSI Annex Main Floor 720 Bathurst, Toronto
(Nearest Subway, Bathurst Station- 5 minute walk south)

Saturday December 3, 2011

  • Registration 9:00 - 10:00am
  • Introduction and Team assembly- 10:00-11:00am
  • Hacking: 11:00am- 5:00pm
  • First Day re-cap: 5:00pm
  • Hacking: 6:00pm-9:00pm

 

Sunday December 4, 2011

  • Hacking 10:00 am -3:00 pm
  • Pitch Competition and Judging 3:00pm-5:00pm
Problems We Are Working On: 
First Nation Access To Water and Sanitation (In Canada)
Bike Accident Reporting App
Municipal Environmental Activist Engagement Tool
Urban street tree mobile application for Toronto
Accessibility "Barrier Buster" App
Building Permit App
Crowdsourcing the Development of Underserved Language Resources
Wound Classification App
Related Sponsors: 

UI/UX design support provided by Azavea

Event Updates

Dec 4

Toronto RHoKs it Out of the Park

Published by melgorka

 

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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