Category: innovation

This conversation explores how nonprofit organizations can adopt and collaborate with generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their work while preserving human judgment. Beth Kanter frames AI as a translator and thought partner that can free staff from repetitive tasks, deepen learning, and improve stakeholder relationships.

This November 2024 webinar, with members from the “Beyond Technology, Beyond Healthcare” project, shared lessons learned from a series of multi-stakeholder dialogues that can transform approaches in ensuring responsive and equitable service delivery for newcomers to Canada.

This May 2025 Code for Canada session discusses how Canada’s newly elected federal government can address its current slide in international digital government rankings and deliver better public digital services. The panel features insights from three digital government leaders with deep knowledge of international and Canadian digital service success stories.

In these 2 Globe and Mail events, participants focused on how Canada might develop a workforce to support long-term prosperity, business resilience, and national security.

Putting aside the fact that the national call for proposals and resulting approval and implementation process was devastatingly chaotic, I found it useful to take a dive into the government of Canada's proactive disclosure site, focus on grants and contributions. This article includes projects I found that are digitally/tech related, which might be of interest to you.

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a significant aspect of how we look at digital transformation in the sector right now, too much of our focus is on AI. In this piece, I'm offering an AI-generated summary of 30 webinars (yes, 30) conducted over the past 4-5 years. The cover a broad scope of digital transformation within the settlement and immigrant-serving sector.

This February 2025 Pathways to Prosperity session provided 3 presentations explored language courses and teacher training designed to promote digital inclusion and support Canadian newcomers’ settlement.

In this December 2024 Wellesley Institute Community Knowledge Program webinar, panelists discussed their current projects in settlement work and how advanced digital technologies are currently being used to support newcomers to Canada.

This is the fourth 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. In this session, Fernando Vitorino, Vice President, Information and Communication Technology Solutions & Services, Achēv and Aimee Holmes, Vice President, Data Strategy & Digital Solutions, presented their experiences of integrating AI into program and service delivery.