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This Pathways to Prosperity 2023 conference workshop examines the hybrid service model combining remote and in-person service delivery that developed during the pandemic.

This 2022 webinar from the Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership’s Newcomer Services Collaboration Working Group focuses on programs that have shifted to hybrid delivery, promising practices, and new and specialized functions on popular virtual platforms such as Zoom, Discord, and WhatsApp.

Information about life in Canada is plentiful, but finding the right information to help newcomers choose where to live, and informing them about the different opportunities, realities, and services outside of Canada’s most well-known destinations, can be a challenge. This workshop presents recent research aimed at informing migration communication activities in these areas.

A response to research findings related to the Canadian government’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, SMARTT was proposed as a platform to facilitate trusted contact between sponsored Syrian refugees and Canada-based sponsors to enhance strong and meaningful integrative social networks in Ontario.

This year’s budget is titled “Fairness for Every Generation” so I might expect to see some depth to the government’s approach to digital inclusion compared to last year’s budget. There are bits, but not anything that resembles a needed whole-of-country digital inclusion strategy.

In this April 2024 webinar lawyer and author Petra Molnar discusses her new book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The book offers a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments while also introducing strategies of togetherness across physical and ideological borders.

In this March 2024 webinar, Charity Digital explored how AI is already impacting people and communities, the meanings of AI safety and AI literacy, and how charitable organisations can take action on digital and AI inclusion.

This March 2024 Community Tech Network webinar focused on  how AI can contribute to digital equity. Presenters also provided practical tips to incorporate foundational AI skills into your digital literacy programming.

Metropolis happened. Maybe you went. Maybe you didn't. Either way, you're interested in following up on some of the digital, tech, comms, hybrid discussions that started there, presentations that happened and will never be shared beyond the room they took place in, or you're just curious about what interesting things other folks are doing. On April 3, 2024 some of us got together to chat and share.