Events

On May 30th, in partnership with Evergreen Cityworks we put on Better Budget Day 2015: A Civic Engagement Workshop. You can check out photos of the day here, and catch up on the social media action here. Some highlights of the event were:  An attendance of about 120 people, representing a real diversity of perspectives and professional backgrounds  City staff working on the budget communicated to our team that they f

On October 19, 2013, in partnership with the Wellesley Institute, we hosted Better Budget Day, a day-long civic engagement workshop focused on designing a better budget process for Toronto. The event brought together about 75 engaged Torontonians from across the city and from a range of fields including public policy, academia, labour, business, technology, social advocacy, journalism, and community organizing. ……………

Members of Better Budget TO attended a mini-hackathon on the Toronto Budget organized by Gabe Sawhney of Urban+Digital Toronto. The event yielded some promising visualizations and discoveries about the quality of Toronto’s Open Data on the budget. Check out Gabe’s report. Gabe will be playing a key role in Better Budget Day.

On June 27th, 2013, about 20 people participated in a community workshop on Toronto’s budget.  After a short presentation, we broke into three groups, discussing technology, public policy innovation, and citizenship engagement as possible levers to improve the budget process. For a copy of our slide presentation, click here. To see a description of the event posted on the Academy of the Impossible’s site, click here.