Technology for the people
An event focused on intensive collaboration on software projects, typically involving design and coding and that may last a few hours to a few days.
What is a hackathon?
The facilitator for an agile development team.
What is a scrum master?
Freely available data everyone can use and republish as they wish.
What is open data?
The name of Canada's first public sector Chief Digital Officer, at the City of Vancouver.
Who is Jessie Adcock?
A leading think tank with membership from developed countries that focuses on economic development and public sector innovation, including digital government.
What is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)?
A popular platform for developers to discover, share, and build software.
What is GitHub or GitLab?
A set of principles for agile software development.
What is the Agile Manifesto?
Software where source code is released and users can review, change, and distribute the code to anyone and for any purpose.
What is open source?
Canada’s first online tribunal developed by the Government of BC.
What is the Civil Resolution Tribunal?
Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Korea & the UK are founding members of this network.
What is the D9 (formerly D5)?
On-demand, elastic computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, making data centers available to many users.
What is cloud computing?
A team and community within the Government of BC working to enhance collaboration between government and developers to build digital services.
What is the BC Developers Exchange?
Openly available requirements or specifications to ensure that digital products are interoperable and fit for their purpose.
What are open standards?
The first province to establish a Digital Service Standard.
What is Ontario?
The country named ‘the most advanced digital society in the world’ by Wired.
What is Estonia?
A set of guidelines or technical standards for accessibility in technology, including for people with disabilities.
What are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)?
In agile development, the rate at which team progresses sprint by sprint.
What is velocity?
The global organization that fosters progress on open government and open data.
The city that won Canada's Smart City Challenge top $50 million prize in 2019.
What is Montreal?
The year in which the D5 (now D9) was founded.
When was 2014?
A software application that serves as a virtual assistant that answer questions and helps people navigate a website.
What are chatbots?
Transparency, inspection and adaptation.
What are the pillars of Scrum?
The first government in Canada to launch an open data portal.
What is the City of Nanaimo?
Innisfil, ON offers this private-sector service as a public transit option.
What is Uber?
The UK Minister responsible for the creation of the Government Digital Service.
Who is Sir Francis Maude?