Category Archives: Hackathon

Design Jam, Event, Hackathon

Cool Event Alert! CodeAcross 2017, a hackathon for the public good in celebration of International Open Data Day

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I’m really excited to share a super cool event I’ve been working on recently. Civic Tech Toronto is a community Howard and I co-founded alongside several others in 2015 that provides a platform for people to collaborate to solve civic challenges through technology, data and design. It’s one of my favourite projects I’ve worked on and I’ll be writing more about the weekly hacknights and other neat work we do there in separate posts soon.

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Co-creation, Facilitation, Hackathon, Human Centred Design, Jam, Technology

Facilitating with Technology: Design Jamming with Trello

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There are many new online data organization tools available for use in facilitating productive discussions such as Slack and Pol.is. Here at The DEF Jam, we’re very interested in exploring how digital tools can assist with great conversations and help facilitators do their job better. In this post we’ll explore an experience using Trello in a Design Jam and how it was helpful for:

  • Sharing and communicating work across groups in the Jam
  • Serve as a storytelling tool during report back
  • Saving time in transcribing sticky-notes post-Jam

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