Imagine a reader wanting to reproduce the case, what knowledge, skills, environment condition, resources and procedures are required? We try to track project lifecycle and theory of change model (prioritized volunteer groups) from environmental sensing, through assumptions and decisions, to actual actions and current outcomes. This is the Core Data for our database.
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-011 Executive Summary One person, one year, one website and 500+ pages. The art of small project scope was demonstrated by the Civic Tech Toronto Archive project. Key Insight: Small scope. One step at a time, keep making progress through the balance between work and break. One person
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-005 Executive Summary Hack the Divide is a virtual hackathon to tackle polarization in communities. They shared insights of logistics and importance of designing user journey with attention in details. Key Insight: The Hack the Divide team succeeded because they combined existing resources smartly. They had advantages most
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-004 Executive Summary This is a short behind the scene of Cohesion Summit—a project trying to bring people together to work on community projects. It is not a success story yet. It is a learning story. If you want to build something in your community but don&
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-003 Executive Summary This is the journey of how ordinary tech workers built a group to make sure technology helps everyone, not just big companies. If you want to start something similar in your city, this guide shows you what worked, what didn't, and what you
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-001 Executive Summary The journey of Civic Tech Waterloo Region grow, struggle, and search for purpose near Lake Ontario. This community runs quarterly pitch event for projects to find contributors and for members to learn opportunity of working on projects for following four months. Key Insight: Some members
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Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-002 Executive Summary Civic Tech Toronto has run weekly hacknight events since 2015, it is also the only civic tech local meetup in Canada to survive the pandemic period of 2020-2023. This case study traces their journey from conception to sustained operation, revealing how intentional design choices around