We're happy to announce we'll be hosting a massive DataNight to help a medley of stakeholders from the immigrant employment & attitudes sector!

We're setting out to discover what data can be used to realize: Canadian sentiment towards immigrants and immigration and what role the economic contributions of immigrants play in perceptions of immigration in Canada. Come ready to brainstorm and help come up with actionable plans, we will be sending out pre-reads in advance to prepare you for this intense night of brainstorming.

Food & drinks for the evening are covered by our sponsor Paytm!
https://www.paytm.ca/

Learn more about Data For Good Toronto, we support data for social good!
https://toronto.dataforgood.ca/

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What is a DataNight??

It's when Data For Good calls upon Toronto's philanthropists to listen to registered charities and non-government agencies' organizational mission surrounding data. We then brainstorm what data we can gather to help them realize these goals.

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Should I attend??

We're looking for data scientists, analysts, teachers, researchers, public policy experts, anthropologists, and informed citizens of Toronto who will listen to immigration issues our stakeholders would like to solve, then break into groups to brainstorm methods of data collection that could be used to solve those objectives.

This night is about vision. And we are looking for individuals with an impactful perspective, even if you have minimal data experience! You're going to meet and work with some amazing people in our city.

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DETAILS

The central focus of the panel will be:

“What drives Canadians’ attitudes around immigration?, in order to develop the appropriate messaging to combat negativity and enhance positivity."

Each stakeholder will release their own questions related this central focus, and a detailed description will be sent to participants before the event to begin the thought-process. Come prepared, or come ready to enhance other's ideas!

After the DataNight, if opportunities arise where the stakeholder(s) and Data for Good concludes actionable insights could be generated through a DataThon... a DataThon will be organized to actually solve it!

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AGENDA

Check-In
6:00 - 6:15pm – Public to arrive and check in. Groups will be assigned.

Introductions
6:15- 6:30pm - Data For Good
6:30- 6:35pm – Paytm
6:35 – 7:00pm – 2 min stakeholder introductions and the business objectives/problems they would like to solve with data.

Brainstorming
7:00 - 8:15pm – Breakout into distinct teams for each stakeholder to discuss what data is available in the public to provide insights, what could be gathered, what methods we can use to measure, and what insights could be garnered and estimated efforts to do so. Prompting questions will be provided for each team along with a Data for Good committee member who will facilitate discussions and brainstorming.

Conclusions
8:15- 8:50pm – Reconvene and highlight key learnings, ideas, strategies from each team

Public Forum
8:50 - 9:00pm - Wrap-up and Networking

(Note: if participants have ideas for other groups they were not part of, these can be submitted to toronto@dataforgood.ca)
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All ideas will be gathered and presented back to the stakeholders in a packaged format for them to understand the key learnings, ideas, and strategies. Outcomes are shared with the panel and public with a goal of helping these organizations be better equipped for their data journey and for the public to be more educated in data literacy, especially in this sector!

Hope you'll join us!!