ChangeCamp Halifax will run from 9:30 to 4:30 on Saturday, December 5, and will be held at the hub at 1673 Barrington Street.
To register, please go to changecamphalifax.eventbrite.com.
Registration is $10 to help cover costs; lunch and coffee will be provided.

Objective
The objective of ChangeCamp Halifax, like the other ChangeCamps going on across the country, is to facilitate public participation through new relationships and new media. Our mission is to provide a forum where engaged citizens can collaborate with a goal of establishing new ideas, new networks, and new tools to resolve issues that Halifax faces today and will face in the future. ChangeCamp is intended to be action- and solutions-oriented and non-partisan.  

ChangeCamp 101  
ChangeCamp strives to encourage public participation enabled by new forms of communication, e.g. digital media and social networking. Through providing a medium that will bring together engaged citizens, policymakers, community designers, and politicians, facilitated by web developers and the tech community, ChangeCamp brings about the opportunity for these groups to form collaborative new relationships.  

ChangeCamp Halifax  
Given successive record lows in voter turnout in Nova Scotia, ChangeCamp seeks to put forth new ideas on reversing this trend by tapping into its diverse participants’ creativity and expertise. ChangeCamp Halifax will be an exciting opportunity for Haligonians, opinion leaders, planners, web developers, bureaucrats, and our elected officials to work together in constructive and non-partisan breakout sessions to break down barriers and identify new solutions.

The day will unfold roughly as follows:

The info session is a series of several short presentations on subjects like the political process and how decisions are made. They will be purely informational and are intended to enrich discussion throughout the remainder of the day, providing background and context to issues facing Halifax.  

Breakout sessions (several running concurrently) are pre-populated by participants who see a need to discuss a specific issue. They are intended to answer a specific question, e.g. “What changes would you like to see in the area of sustainable transportation, community housing, transparency in public information, poverty alleviation, etc.?” These sessions seek to stimulate discussion, identify barriers and challenges, and begin to envision possible solutions.  

During the action sessions in the afternoon, participants discuss specific strategies or lay the groundwork for tools (web or otherwise) to address issues raised in the open space breakout sessions. The primary objective of the action sessions is to allow participants to determine how these discussions can progress in the weeks and months following ChangeCamp.  

 Contact information
Follow us on twitter @changecamphfx or join the conversation on our Ning network. For more information, please feel free to contact the organizing team at changecamphalifax@gmail.com.  

To register, please go to changecamphalifax.eventbrite.com.