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I was watching a video about Apple’s new Vision Pro, their Virtual Reality headset. The video talked about questions you might typically ask when creating a new product or technology. Specifically, what problem is this product trying to solve? Combined with tech stewardship questions such as can we build the solution, should we build it, how do we do it responsibly, I thought it would be useful to go through these questions when it comes to technology and the Immigrant and Refugee-serving sector.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada wastes the skills of its immigrants, and the economy suffers as a result, Women International Students: The Invisible Workforce, Safe Third Country Agreement is constitutional, Supreme Court rules, Visualising the global flow of 35 million refugees, Immigration: End the bait and switch. Keep Canada’s promise to migrants of a better life, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: What’s the right number of immigrants for Canada?, Canada opens new economic immigration streams for skilled refugees and other displaced people, Free replacement documents for Canadians and special measures for people affected by severe wildfires, Ukrainians sheltering in Canada hit hard by tuition fees, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada launches new immigration program to fill ‘in-demand’ jobs, Do university-educated immigrants recover economically from a slow start?, The Education-Immigration Nexus: Situating Canadian Higher Education as Institutions of Immigrant Recruitment, Mapping of complementary labour and education pathways for people in need of protection, and more.

The YMCA of the National Capital Region’s project, Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO), is a research-based program that addresses the challenges/barriers that service providers and newcomer clients face in delivering/using remote and hybrid services. The project is uncovering evidence-based practices that Settlement Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) find promising in delivering remote/hybrid services and engaging clients, creating a toolkit/framework and resources for SPOs to evaluate the effectiveness of your service delivery and adapt your models accordingly to improve services, and creating a network of knowledge and promising practice sharing.

Being ready for digital maturity, hybrid services, service evaluation, and the growth of AI tools and processes means understanding your organization's state of data maturity. The UK-based Data Maturity Framework by DataKind and Data Orchard is a self-assessment tool to help charities better understand and alleviate the challenges of incorporating data into their efforts.

This report outlines that, while multilingual language models show promise as a tool for content analysis, they also face key limitations. Language models in general, and multilingual language models in particular, may allow for the creation of exciting new technologies. An effort to increase access to online services in multiple languages will certainly be a step in the right direction. They may even help to open up different opportunities and access to information for people who speak one of the many languages that are currently rarely supported by online services. 

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: National Scorecard on Canada’s Growth and Prosperity, Quality of Work of Canada’s Contingent Workforce, ‘Game changer’: Ontario engineers remove Canadian work experience requirement for immigrants, They worked with Canada. But Ottawa denies it owes these Afghans quick help, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Investing in settlement services for newcomers, Best Practices in Supporting International Students Enrolled in Toronto-area Colleges, New national PLAR framework will support lifelong learning and help individuals enter the workforce faster, Canada on Track to Host Largest Afghan Resettlement Program, and more.