Imagining Canada Beyond 150
I had the pleasure of attending the 150!Canada Conference, co-hosted by my friends at MASSLBP and IPAC. It was a fantastic event designed to kick off the planning for Canada’s 150th anniversary party in 2017. The first day was packed full with 25 inspiring speakers sharing many different perspectives on the meaning and opportunity of Canada’s 150th.
What I took away was that all of the participants felt that a bottom-up approach enabled by web technology was really necessary to create opportunities for Canadians to tell their own stories of how they came to be Canadian, what it means to them, reflecting on where we’ve been, who we are and where we’re going. I was also struck by the strong desire to reflect the diversity of Canada’s multicultural present while recognizing our aboriginal past.
I think there is a role for the ChangeCamp community in this project, inviting our fellow citizens into conversations to tell those stories and to imagine Canada’s future in creative new ways. What do you think?
For an archive of the liveblog from the full event, see below the jump:
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