AI policies, ethics and practices in LBS (webinar recording)
Published on: July 23, 2025
This AlphaPlus session on November 19, 2024 provided Ontario instructors and guests exploring the policies, ethics and practices in Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS).
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Introduction to AI ethics (webinar recording)
Published on: April 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be helpful when used well, but they are dangerous when used irresponsibly. AI ethics is the field that aims to understand and manage the opportunities and risks of using AI. This April 2023 talk by Ravit Dotan introduces the audience to prominent AI risks, the current state of AI ethics, the landscape of AI regulation worldwide, and what organizations should do to develop and use AI responsibly.
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Ethics and Contemporary Social Issues: Immigration and Integration - the N4 program (webinar recording)
Published on: November 25, 2021
In this October 2021 webinar, speakers from the IWK Health Centre discussed the N4 Network and the N4-SPU Program, highlighting examples of how the Newcomer Navigation lens has applied to the different department roles within IWK, and illustrate resources available through N4 that clinicians can use.
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Dr. Lilie Chouliaraki - Face and the ethics of the refugee selfie (webinar recording)
Published on: November 6, 2021
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Political Science) delivered this keynote address on April 14, 2021 as part of the UBC Centre for Migration Studies' "New Media Aesthetics of Migration" Virtual Workshop. In this keynote, she proposes a new understanding of the refugee selfie as moral practice.
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2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics (webinar recording)
Published on: November 5, 2021
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's Nov 3-4, 2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics brought together a range of cultural, social and structural perspectives on the ethical issues relating to digital information technologies, with the aim of broadening the approach of digital and AI ethics.
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What does an ethics of care mean for knowledge mobilization in migration contexts? (webinar recording)
Published on: November 29, 2020
In this webinar, the Refugee Research Network (RRN) explored the ways in which an ethics of care can complement dominant procedural ethics approaches to research and knowledge mobilization in migration contexts.
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Social work and AI - a conversation we should pay closer attention to
Published on: March 15, 2026
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.
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Drivers of Change in a Digital Era – AI, Information Flows and Immigration (webinar recording)
Published on: December 12, 2025
This November 2025 P2P Conference plenary explores change drivers, focusing on how emerging technologies are influencing, and will continue to influence, immigration and settlement in Canada. The session looked at advances in AI and digital tools and their impact on: immigration decision-making and processes, the way in which information is accessed and used, and the delivery of services to newcomers.
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