Civic Hacknight #518: Project Ploughshares: Uncover & track Canadian military exports with AI
We missed you this time around!
Topic:
Project Ploughshares: Uncover & track Canadian military exports with AI
Project Ploughshares is a Canadian peace research organization that tracks Canadian military exports to keep Canada accountable. Learn how a volunteer group from Civic Tech Waterloo Region (CivicTechWR) helped save them hours of searching using automated scrapers and AI.
Speaker:
Cole Westerveld
Cole is a Computer Science student at the University of Guelph, passionate about leading teams and using technology for social good with community groups like Civic Tech Waterloo Region. He applies his experience in scalable software and AI, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, to build real-world applications—including an application created with CivicTechWR to automate accountability for Canadian military exports.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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We missed you this time around!
Platform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Civic Hacknight #518: Project Ploughshares: Uncover & track Canadian military exports with AI
Topic:
Project Ploughshares: Uncover & track Canadian military exports with AI
Project Ploughshares is a Canadian peace research organization that tracks Canadian military exports to keep Canada accountable. Learn how a volunteer group from Civic Tech Waterloo Region (CivicTechWR) helped save them hours of searching using automated scrapers and AI.
Speaker:
Cole Westerveld
Cole is a Computer Science student at the University of Guelph, passionate about leading teams and using technology for social good with community groups like Civic Tech Waterloo Region. He applies his experience in scalable software and AI, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, to build real-world applications—including an application created with CivicTechWR to automate accountability for Canadian military exports.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
Get in touch!
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