Chan, James

James is involved with creating community and spaces for civic and social innovation, where engaged citizens can connect and collaborate, and work towards social change and the public good through technology, design, policy, data and entrepreneurship. Formerly with MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, James is currently the Programming Lead at Impact Hub Ottawa, a co-founder of Ottawa Civic Tech and a member of the Board of Directors of Code for Canada. He is passionate about urbanism and the future of Canada’s cities and tweets about these topics as @AccidentalCity.