Category: innovation

This bilingual Fact-Checking Toolkit (English & French) was created by Susana Mas in collaboration with the Catholic Centre for Immigrants for the wider Community Integration Network which supports newcomers. The Toolkit was created to help people navigate mis - and disinformation online.

Whether you're a novice or a seasoned digital users, this November 3, 2021 TechSoup Canada webinar provided actionable concepts and strategies that will keep your data and your organization secure, and help you ward off all kinds of attacks––from phishing to Zoom-bombing.

During this May 4, 2020 Nethope webinar, part of the virtual edition of the ICT4D Conference and ongoing ICT4D webinar series, three different initiatives using digital technologies to help fight misinformation were explored. Speakers shared how their applications relate to COVID-19 preparedness and response.

You can search this site and find various research reports and useful information about digital literacy in our sector. But a one-page summary can come in handy some times. In this post I've compiled a number of reports, webinar recordings, and other resources to get you started.

In May 2020, not long after frontline service providers moved services online, North York Community House (NYCH) held a couple of interesting and useful webinars. It was early days, but NYCH staff and leadership were learning some things, making progress. They decided to put themselves out there to share not only what they were learning, but also their struggles, and what they were learning.

A few months ago I shared resources to help answer the question what will your hybrid workplace actually look like? It's still a big question. Sector leaders have been bringing you together to help think it through. This post includes a few useful webinar recordings that might be helpful for you.

How can we ensure the immigrant-serving sector is responsive, collaborative, innovative, and sustainable, in order to meet the evolving needs of newcomers in Canada? In this session, presenters shared reflections on current challenges identified to date, facilitated an interactive discussion on the sector’s needs, and discussed how the sector can be strengthened to better support the success of immigrants and refugees.

This post comes out of an interesting LinkedIn post and I thought it is probably something others are starting to look into. I'm not a lawyer, nor an expert in this area, but it's an area that definitely intersects with the Settlement Sector & Technology Task Group final report.

This webinar outlines three of the most popular open source Learning Management Systems and identifies features and affordances of each.