I've written previously how the 2017 Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice is very applicable to the Canadian context, including the work Immigrant and Refugee-serving organizations do. It's a sector we should be paying attention to, because it is close in scope and focus to Settlement work, and is a regulated sector. What they do, we should adapt. What they learn, we should study. We don't, but we should.

I like to go through Settlement-related conference program agendas for conferences I’m not attending to see what might be of interest from a digital perspective. This year’s Metropolis Conference does not disappoint. Hopefully, at least the slides from these presentations, discussion notes, summaries, as well as reports mentioned will make it on the Metropolis conference platform or be shared publicly at some point. Here are some of interest.

In this February 2026 TechSoup Canada webinar, presenters unpack what data sovereignty and digital autonomy really mean for Canadian nonprofits—and why “data stored in Canada” is not the same as being safely under Canadian law.

This report examines how recent newcomers living in Scarborough learn about and use free community and settlement services, and why many do not access them.It aims to identify information and service accessibility, challenges, and gaps for newcomers who have lived in Canada less than five years and have used only one or no settlement services.

This research synthesizes findings from empirical studies on how digital technologies (DTs) are used with immigrant plurilingual language learners in educational settings. Its explores contexts, methods, and outcomes of technology use for facilitating language learning and plurilingual teaching practices, as well as to assess how much current research integrates plurilingual approaches.

The article examines how undocumented Venezuelan migrants traveling through Central America toward the United States‑Mexico border navigate a landscape of “information precarity” and confront disinformation.

This case study comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines a Facebook group by and for Ottawa residents who are private sponsors of refugees, as well as organizations that facilitate refugee sponsorship

This good idea comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines the use of a private Facebook group for francophone newcomers to Canada. Members can ask any question and get answers from settlement professionals within 48 hours on business days.

OTEC, a sector-specific training, consulting, and workforce development organization, teamed up with Magnet to launch ALiGN, a “psychometric-based talent-to-role fit assessment and job-matching model” to connect unemployed youth to job vacancies.