Affordability & Trust: Tips for Impactful Digital Inclusion Work (webinar recording)
Published on: October 6, 2022
In this October 5, 2022 webinar panelists discuss the implications of EveryoneOn’s recent U.S. research (a 3-part series on broadband adoption among low- and lower-middle income households during the pandemic) and National Digital Inclusion Alliance's (NDIA) digital equity guides and toolkits, including an introduction to some new resources.
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Digital Inclusion 101 (webinar recording)
Published on: October 5, 2022
In this October 4, 2022 webinar, Pamela Rosales, National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) training and community engagement manager, and Tsion Tesfaye, senior research and policy manager, lay the foundation for your digital equity knowledge.
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What is the default trajectory of humanity's relationship with technology?
Published on: October 4, 2022
I've joined Tech Stewardship's self-directed course and this week went through one question that I think is important for us all to reflect on: what is the default trajectory of humanity's relationship with technology? We're asked to rank where we are on a scale from 1 (pessimistic) to 10 (optimistic).
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Digital Inclusion week 2022
Published on: October 3, 2022
I'm going to spend the week writing and sharing information and articles about digital inclusion, with a focus on our sector. I'll share on my site and on LinkedIn, so let's chat there if you find what I'm sharing interesting. I encourage you to share what you or your organization is doing about Digital Inclusion.
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Assessing your digital skills, and your organization's digital maturity
Published on: September 28, 2022
Assessing and building Immigrant and Refugee-serving sector staff and organizational digital capacity is an important goal to move the sector forward as we build a strategic and practical hybrid service delivery model. I've posted many resources around digital literacy and digital inclusion that have come out of the UK. Here are 2 that I recommend you try out for yourselves.
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Playing with AI copywriting and video creation - we can’t ignore it any longer
Published on: September 25, 2022
Recently I wrote about tech we're not talking about in our sector. I’m hoping to explore many of these technologies. In this article I’m looking at AI copywriting and video creation sites. There's a lot of potential, and things to think about here.
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What is Copyright & Creative Commons?
Published on: September 24, 2022
You might hear about sharing your organization's content using ‘Creative Commons licences’. What are Creative Commons Licences and why are they important? This July 2022 webinar will tell you just that.
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Datareportal - understand Newcomer technology and social media use in their countries of origin
Published on: September 24, 2022
If you're curious about Immigrant and Refugee social media habits before they arrived in Canada, be sure to have a look at the DataReportal country reports.
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A conversation with Miyuki Fukuma – digital services must be accessible
Published on: September 23, 2022
Welcome to episode 33 of the Technology in Human Services podcast. In this episode I speak with Miyuki Fukuma about sector technology development, the need for tech human resources in our sector and how we can actually afford those positions, technology sustainability that impacts how technology is funded, digital communication, and a good chunk of time on accessibility.
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