James McKinney's slides from Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Jan 19 2016
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3. “I used your municipal data as part of a successful letter
writing campaign from constituents to their elected
municipal politicians, which resulted in the passage of
the most definitive resolution ever opposing oil tanker
traffic expansion on B.C.'s coast.”
Karl Hardin
Dogwood Initiative
4. “Canadians helped us engage 20% of the incoming
Liberal caucus, most of whom are rookie MPs and
new connections for EWB.”
5. “Although most of the data is available, the act of scraping,
aggregating, and serving it would have incurred costs that
could have been invested elsewhere. It would have been
significantly more time consuming.”
Phillip Smith
The Tyee