Category: digital literacy

This July 2024 DigiShift webinar provides an overview of common Cyber threats within the voluntary sector and what you can do, whatever your role or expertise to make things better. Speakers provide valuable insights and practical tips to help enhance your organization's Cyber resilience.

Organized by ARAISA and the Société Nationale de l’Acadie (SNA) these May 2024 Cybersecurity and Data Protection webinars aim to raise awareness of privacy and data security principles, focusing on safeguarding client information and complying with provincial privacy laws. Both webinars are useful for all. Part 2 covers specific Atlantic region legal frameworks.

These May 2024 AMSSA webinars AMSSA covered techniques for securing sensitive information, highlighting case studies of standard operational principles as well as the consequences of data breaches, and the legal framework of digital security in the settlement sector in B.C., as well as the legal responsibilities of organizations and individuals. While legal and regulatory frameworks are B.C.-focused there is also discussion of national legislation and there is much in these webinars on privacy and security principles, and best practices relevant for all Immigrant and Refugee-serving organizations.

This NetHope event explored data from the report, key themes and takeaways for INGO leaders, digital teams and stakeholders in the donor and policy ecosystem. Presenters shared their reflections on cybersecurity challenges and discussed steps needed to address the growing challenge facing digital humanitarian and development actors.

How can we move past paralysis and anxiety to joy and innovation when it comes to cybersecurity in the nonprofit sector? In this conversation, Jason Shim (CCNDR) and Omar Yaqub (IslamicFamily) explore a model cybersecurity policy for nonprofits and share practical steps you can implement to support your team.

NorQuest College created these elearning modules as SCORM packages which you can link to or embed on your websites and Learning Management Systems (LMS). On this page, I have embedded their Module 3 Unit 2: Digging Into Disinformation, to show you how you could embed a module into one of your web pages.

This presentation provides information to help transition to Online Practice - considering confidentiality and ethical and legal aspects of Practice.

This is a recording and notes from presentations at an immigrant and refugee-serving sector-only virtual event on June 16, 2020. I was honored to moderate the panel. The panelists focused on technological adaptations made to settlement service delivery due to COVID-19, share promising practices and challenges, as well as other outcomes from the sector discussion.

On the organizational side, you work with your clients' personal identifiable information. You know that it should be kept under lock and key in your office, but what does that mean online?