Category: digital literacy

An ARAISA and ISANS collaboration, this October 2024 webinar is part of a series of webinars to address the dynamic and evolving subject of integrating AI in our sector. This session explores creative and practical uses of popular AI-driven educational tools that simplify planning and materials creation for instructors.

An ARAISA and ISANS collaboration, this September 2024 webinar is part of a series of webinars to address the dynamic and evolving subject of integrating AI in our sector. This session introduces the government’s “FASTER” approach, highlighting the importance of evaluating risks associated with AI tools as well as highlighting the innovative approaches currently in use amongst colleagues.

This webinar, hosted by Peel Newcomer Strategy Group with support of Digital Transformation committee of the Executive Council of Peel-Halton Settlement Partnerships, is designed to share knowledge and discuss the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence. This is the first session in a 4-part webinar series exploring the transformative potential of AI in newcomer-serving sector, with a special focus on how AI can enhance our services and operations.

The use of AI notetakers and AI scribes in the context of community, human, and health services has come up as an area of excitement and concern. Many people are starting to use them and there are concerns about privacy, control over meeting notes and artefacts. Many have been using them without having any policies in place. There is a desire to have some useful and practical guidelines and policies in place. In this article I'm providing some useful articles and sources that I have found to provide an overview of the issues that service providers should be aware of.

This May 2024 Scottish AI Alliance workshop focused on Bias in Generative AI, specifically on text-generating technologies called Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. University of Edinburgh PhD student Lara Dal Molin moderated the session exploring concrete instances of bias in an open-source LLM.

In this December 2023 Catalyst webinar, Digital Evaluations expert Tom Keyte outlined findings and guidance resulting from new research conducted on the evaluation of digital products and services for non-profit organizations, evaluators, funders and digital agencies. Keyte highlighted the ins and outs of evaluating digital products, providing simple steps you can implement to improve your digital product development and evaluation.

This July 2024 DigiShift webinar provides an overview of common Cyber threats within the voluntary sector and what you can do, whatever your role or expertise to make things better. Speakers provide valuable insights and practical tips to help enhance your organization's Cyber resilience.

In this July 31, 2024 Techsoup webinar, Ryan Harrington, Director of Data Labs with Tech Impact delves into practical use cases of generative AI that demonstrate how nonprofits can leverage these tools to more effectively achieve impact, enhance their operations, and drive engagement.

Organized by ARAISA and the Société Nationale de l’Acadie (SNA) these May 2024 Cybersecurity and Data Protection webinars aim to raise awareness of privacy and data security principles, focusing on safeguarding client information and complying with provincial privacy laws. Both webinars are useful for all. Part 2 covers specific Atlantic region legal frameworks.