For Mayor of Toronto · 2026Open-data quests
Learn how Toronto works by exploring public datasets, maps and service information, then build a portfolio showing what you discovered.
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Project Six · Proposed PilotLearning by Doing
A civic-learning experience that helps residents build useful skills through real-world Toronto challenges.
Civic literacyOpen dataYouth engagementResilience awarenessCommunity projects
Technology assists. People decide.
What it looks like in practice
Real use cases. Safe boundaries.
The first version should focus on learning, public information and supervised skill-building—not operational control.
311 literacy
Understand what belongs in 311, how to report non-emergency issues properly and how service standards can be tracked.
Flood-resilience learning
Learn about catch basins, rain gardens, basement flood protection and neighbourhood resilience using public information.
Accessibility mapping
Explore public routes and assets to understand barriers, complete journeys and inclusive design without collecting sensitive personal data.
Youth civic-tech portfolios
Use libraries and community partners to build practical skills in data, design, coding, mapping, AI literacy and problem solving.
Community projects
Co-design small, measurable projects that improve public understanding, neighbourhood spaces or resilience awareness.
Visual Concept Series
If the City made civic learning feel like a great game magazine.
Bright, Toronto-specific concepts show how ordinary civic tasks can become approachable missions while keeping professional systems separate.
Hard Guardrails
Learn the city. Don’t run the city.
The public experience should remain separate from policing workflows, emergency response, drones or robotics operations, surveillance, restricted asset systems and operational decision-making.
- No public access to restricted City systems.
- No rewards for confrontation, identification or enforcement.
- No personal-data collection by default.
- Professional and emergency decisions remain with accountable staff and official services.
- Any future technology pilot requires privacy, cybersecurity, legal, accessibility and human-review gates.
PROJECT SIX PRINCIPLEOpen learningPublic dataSupervised skillsHuman governance
Operational systems stay separate.
Operational systems stay separate.
Pathway to Opportunity
From curiosity to a real portfolio.
Project Six is most useful when it becomes a bridge to education, civic-tech experience, climate and infrastructure careers, libraries, community organizations and supervised paid pathways.
Understand city systems, data and resilience.
Create a project, map, analysis or prototype.
Turn completed work into a portfolio.
Connect proven skills to training, placements and careers.
Play It for Real
Make civic learning useful, safe and worth doing.
Start with a bounded pilot. Measure what works. Scale only what proves public value.