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These recordings are from the Toronto Public Library's October 2025 Digital Expo - Bridging the AI Divide. This event brought together industry leaders and local agencies to discuss responsible technology use, privacy and online safety, digital citizenship and innovation in the age of AI.

At the May 2025 AI for Social Impact Gathering, IslamicFamily's Omar Yaqub shared insights into how AI is being used to support social workers and strengthen social service communities. It promises to be a thoughtful and energizing session.

This August 2023 AI for Education session explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in closing the digital divide. In this webinar, we explored how AI technologies can be harnessed to work towards equitable access to education, resources, and opportunities for all students, regardless of their socio-economic backgrounds and current engagement in school.

This March 2025 Concordia University session brings together scholars from different fields to critically examine AI governance, gender-based violence, and algorithmic power—before shifting toward degrowth, digital commons, and pluriversal approaches to technology.

In this May 2024 KT Canada session, Dr. Khara Sauro provides an overview of the barriers and facilitators to implementing AI-based tools in healthcare, the differences and similarities between implementing AI-based tools and other interventions, and implementation strategies for AI-based tools based on identified barriers and facilitators.

This good idea comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines the use of a private Facebook group for francophone newcomers to Canada. Members can ask any question and get answers from settlement professionals within 48 hours on business days.

This AlphaPlus session on November 19, 2024 provided Ontario instructors and guests exploring the policies, ethics and practices in Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS).

This research report provides a review and analysis of online and distance education language training in Canada. The report provides a set of recommendations for the implementation of online and distance education language training, including the need for increased access to online and blended learning opportunities, the need to address integrating culture in language learning, the need to provide robust learner orientation and professional development for instructors, ongoing and multi-modal communications, technical support and the development of a centralized repository of learning objects.

This environmental scan provides a detailed, sector-specific overview of AI adoption in Canadian settlement services, highlighting both the promise and the challenges of integrating AI in a human-centered, ethical, and collaborative manner. It provides actionable recommendations for organizations, policymakers, and researchers, and sets the stage for future work in this evolving area.