Category: digital literacy

At the October 2025 AI for Social Impact Gathering, Geoff Zakaib from Data for Good shared key lessons from the National Mental Health Datathon and practical strategies for making cross-sector data collaboration work.

In this May 2025 Civic Tech TO session, Aniket Kali reveals how immigrant voting patterns in the GTA have shifted toward the Conservatives. His analysis, using data visualization and mapping, combines electoral results with census data to create visual stories that challenge assumptions about immigrant voting blocs in Canadian politics.

Watch the final presentations from the top 10 semi-finalist teams of the Migration Data Challenge 2025 from the Bridging Divides program at TMU. This was a first-of-its-kind competition in Canada that invited undergraduate and graduate students from across the country to turn raw migration data into meaningful, real-world insight.

The January 2025 ARAISA webinar outlines four databases that provide immigration-related data that are useful for you in your work. For each database, you will learn what data is available, advantages and disadvantages, and tips and tricks for using this data.

This May 2023 CERC in Migration and Integration workshop brought together scholars from different disciplines to introduce their research on digital technologies and datafication in migration and to discuss its ambivalent and contradictory role for migrants compared to refugees, as well as the unsettling consequences of the use of datafication in bordering and policymaking.

This October 2022 CYRRC session focused on building the capacity of Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) to access and use data from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) to answer questions about refugee retention and economic outcomes.

Are you a social impact professional looking for some practical guidance on how to use data concepts or technologies? Do you want to connect with a data technologist to discuss your challenges? Are you looking for educational materials tailored to your work in the social impact space? Through Nonprofit Data 101, DataKind created this webinar series on various data science and AI topics.

In this December 2023 session, Data For Good Calgary hosted Marc LePage, an experienced data professional, who shared how non-profit organizations can use data in their grant applications.

You may have read what I’ve written about Wired: Evaluation Settlement Online (WESO) before. In this post I’m going to explain why you, a manager at an Immigrant and Refugee-serving organization, should learn about, take the WESO training, and implement the WESO toolkit.