Category: digital literacy - innovation

This Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership (TSLIP) June 2024 workshop focused on AI literacy for service providers in the newcomer-serving sector. It provides insights into the fundamentals of AI and its impact on employment services for Newcomers to Canada. It explores key areas essential for building AI literacy, including understanding AI basics, exploring its applications in service delivery, and navigating ethical considerations in AI use.

This May 2024 Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration conference brought together an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral group of researchers and leaders from Canadian and international civil society, business and government to reflect on the implications of the rapid development of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) for migrant integration in Canada and around the world.

Ensuring the long-term health and well-being of immigrants in Canada is vital for human rights, social justice, and the sustainability of Canada's health system and economy. This April 2024 IPAC event explored what affects immigrant health, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of the issue. Panelists identified opportunities for collective action across sectors and geographies to enhance the long-term health outcomes of immigrants in Canada.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Let’s Clean Up Our Act: A Report on Legislative Reform of The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Locked out by Canada’s family reunification program: These immigrants can’t even get into the queue to sponsor parents and grandparents, Financial boundaries look different for immigrants in Canada supporting families back home, Immigration protesters require medical care as dry hunger strike continues in Charlottetown, Relief and happiness as P.E.I. immigration protesters pause dry hunger strike.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: In Between Belonging: Immigrant Perspectives on Becoming a Canadian Citizen, Immigration Minister tables bill to extend citizenship rights to children born abroad, Canada to extend citizenship to children born abroad, restoring rights of ‘lost Canadians’, Canadian governments urgently need to collaborate to support refugee students.

We don't talk a lot about the user experience in our sector. But we should. Especially as we know that Newcomers, like all of us, are looking for frictionless access to information and progress in their Settlement journey, and expect exceptional service from us all. And why wouldn't they? They, like all of us, experience frictionless digital and other service experiences elsewhere. They increasingly expect it from sector service providers. But what does it mean?

I originally presented this at the Arab Community Centre of Toronto's Josoor Project Conference in March 2024: "Digital Inclusion: From Research to Application - Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies." You can view the video as well as read my full remarks in text.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Proof Point: Not addressing population aging can be very costly, Seek training in high-demand sectors, province tells immigrants with expiring work permits, Immigrant workers protest in P.E.I.: What's going on now and how did it start?, I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues.

This November 2021 webinar presented lessons learned by York University Refugee Research Network related Knowledge Moblization. The workshop covered best practices, tools and templates for achieving research impact through planning an effective Knowledge Mobilization plan.