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About Us
GLOCAL is a grassroots initiative formed by a group of young Canadians who saw challenges in our democratic platforms. Our mission is to empower residents in Canada to be globally aware and locally engaged. We aim to support and work with our fellow Canadians in bringing about a more inclusive, transparent, accessible, and engaging democratic participation with a global understanding.
We are alumni of the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, McGill University, Simon Fraser University, McMaster University, York University, Queen’s University and Harvard University.
We are honoured to become an official partner of The Consortium on Electoral Democracy/Consortium de la démocratie électorale (C-Dem), a consortium of academic, civil society, and government organizations working on strengthening the health of democracy in Canada (https://c-dem.ca/).
GLOCAL stands for:
Global vision.
Local engagement.
Open mindedness.
Creative solutions.
Adaptive leadership.
Lifelong learning.
It is together that we can implement with innovation.
Management Team
Faye Ying, Founder & Executive Director
Carla Caruana, Director of Public Education
Gemma Hauser, Social Media Manager
Nina Russell, Compliance Officer
Joseph Ong, Project Manager
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Challenges We Aim to Address
- Civic Information Accessibility (the “last mile” delivery)
- Information Overload (as one of the root cause for misinformation and disinformation)
- Insufficient Civic Information
Vision
We envision GLOCAL as the “Uber Eats” and talent incubator in the context of civic engagement.
The nature of the long-term goal at GLOCAL is to provide an on-demand digital civic information delivery platform that connects Canadians with legislators, governments, civil society organizations, communities and other types of political stakeholders in Canada.
Through the friendly, one-stop YouCount.ca mobile app or website (currently under construction), citizens can browse information from legislators and governments, ask questions, place requests, play educational games, join e-town halls, receive legislative updates and further be part of the last-mile delivery of civic knowledge.
GLOCAL also offers additional non-partisan services to legislators at three levels of government and election candidates to expand and strengthen their engagement with their constituents.
Operations
GLOCAL's work of digital civic engagement is designed to be led by young Canadians from across the nation and globe, and empower young Canadians to be civic knowledge construction workers, services designers, engineers, and couriers in fulfilling the “last mile” delivery of civic information to their diverse communities.
Do you know who represents you?
Check out YouCount.ca to find out your political representatives at three levels of government!