#619 In-person and Online: Community Feedback Session

Join us for a facilitated group conversation about the incoming second Trump Administration, the role of technology and data in our society, and how we, the Chi Hack Night community might respond to all of it.

The facilitated discussion will be structured around the following prompts:

1. Fears & hopes: On Jan 20th, 2025, Donald Trump will begin his second term as President. What are you fearful of with this change? What are you hopeful for?
2. Media & civic literacy: The news industry, and especially local media outfits, have continued their decline as measured by the number of newspapers, circulation, frequency of publication, employment and readership. More Americans live in news deserts now than in recent years. What might we as civic technologists do to help in countering this trend?
3. Social media impacts: Social media platforms have responded to political shifts by removing oversight of content. What can civic technologists do to help address misinformation and hate speech in social media?
4. Chi Hack Night community: What is our community doing well? What could we be doing better? What should we do more of?

Community feedback will be summarized and shared out in a future blog post. Join us Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in person!

This event will be in person, but you can also tune in via livestream. Doors open at 6pm. The livestream and announcements will start around 6:30pm CDT.

In-person: TeamWorking, 20 N Upper Wacker Drive, 12th Floor, Chicago IL. Enter the Civic Opera Building using the entrance in the middle of the block between Washington and Madison streets. Take the elevators to the 12th floor.

For more information on our in-person events, please see our COVID Policy.

RSVP In-person attendees should RSVP beforehand. As occupancy limits permit, walk-ins will be allowed to enter.

There will be food! We will be serving Costa Rican empanadas, chicken casado and rice from Irazu!