Category: digital literacy

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.

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.

This October 2025 panel focused on impacts of AI and false responders on online data collection. Learn how researchers are navigating false responders and bots as hostilities rise against 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

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.

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.

In these 2 Globe and Mail events, participants focused on how Canada might develop a workforce to support long-term prosperity, business resilience, and national security.