Category: digital literacy

OK, so you're using ChatGPT or one of many other AI chatbots. Are you maximizing your chat prompts? If you're not sure, there are some great sites and resources out there. Some offer really great prompting frameworks. Others offer sample prompts you can copy, paste, customize and use across various AI chatbots. Some are non-profit specific, some are not, but still very useful. Here are a few.

At the recent P2P National Conference I participated in the first of 2 panel presentations focused on Immigration, Work and New Technologies. My contribution was a presentation titled How Digital Diversity Shapes Employment Outcomes – Digital Inclusion Is a Settlement Imperative. It was a very interesting panel with some interesting connecting threads I want to share before I forget them.

This November 2025 Refugee 613 webinar highlights early findings from the 2025 MTM Newcomers Survey and explores how to apply them in real settings, in ways that are practical and won’t add to your workload. The session reviewed communication patterns and gaps that affect outreach, program design, funding applications, and community partnerships.

In 2024 national round‑table discussions on digital inclusion in Canada occurred, forming a Canadian National Digital Inclusion Network (NDIN). These documents lay out a series of goals, challenges, and concrete recommendations aimed at closing the digital divide for marginalized groups across the country.

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.

This digtalLIFT April 2025 Digital Divide Simulation, presented by KC Digital Drive, invites participants to step into the shoes of those navigating an analog life in our digital world. Through a series of realistic activities and obstacles, gain firsthand insight into the compounded difficulties arising from digital exclusion.

This May 2025 Civic Tech TO talk explores the landscape of digital skills in the non-profit sector in Canada. It explores both research and strategies that organizations can use to invest in the digital skills of their workforce.

Apparently, this survey may close tonight so here it is with some comments from me. Context? From IRCC's slide deck: "The purpose of this presentation is to solicit your early thoughts and co-generate ideas about how we can adapt the Settlement and Resettlement Programs to better suit the needs of clients over the next few years in a context of reduced funding and lower immigration levels."