The deadline for this recent round of public consultation has closed. I missed it, but I will send this post to the provincial government regardless. I will do so by emailing a link to this post along with its full text to: digital.government (at) ontario.ca . I’ll also post this…
Cultural democracy problems, cultural solutions?
In software language, a known issue is a problem or defect with software that exists but doesn’t take the whole system down/isn’t ‘that bad’ so it goes unfixed. It’s like a wooden floor that gives you splinters now and again but you live with it…
Vaccines and Narrowed Fields of Discourse
Whenever many months ago when the nonsensical technology for covid joined the scene I realized both how little I knew — and how little most of us knew — about public health policy in the pandemic/epidemic realm. Hell, I didn’t know the difference between…
Accountability is How We Support Each Other
This post is laid out as follows. And it comes with the “I’m ragged, truly, and writing this fast” preface — please let me know about errors, and also on anything content wise, as ever.
- Background on the University of Toronto censure. I…
Layers beget layers and it all needs more public lawyers
Two points of setup — one: significant amounts of power and money are moving faster than ever in this moment. Some of that power and money is moving around in the public procurement of technology products that shape society in…
The item goes to Toronto City Council on Feb 2, 2021
Edit: Analysis — added Jan 30, 2021
Today I was speaking to a fellow civic tech community member, and we touched on PayIt, and they asked me: what should the City do instead? Which prompted me to say that…
January 27, 2021
To the City of Toronto Executive Committee,
Thank you Mayor Tory and Executive Committee members for the opportunity to speak with you today.
My name is Bianca Wylie, and I’m here on behalf of Tech Reset Canada, and my colleagues Saadia Muzaffar, Jennifer Evans, and April Dunford…
Working from a point of acknowledged wreckage and the hope inherent
Today a phrase came across my Twitter feed from an article describing recent events in Hong Kong “…as long as our hearts still hurt I think Hong Kong can be salvaged”. This was before the events in DC. Two…
- Naming capitalism as the source of all trouble minimizes our complicity in the democracy that maintains its injustice. Every day I’m struck by the fact that different political leadership and different public participation in systems could yield very different results than what we have today. …
