The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Prof. Jennifer Chandler has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), one of the highest honours for members of the Canadian health sciences community.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa has been appointed the first ever Scholar-in-Residence at the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, effective September 1st, 2022.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Chidi Oguamanam, has been awarded the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Sustainable Bio-Innovation, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Global Knowledge Governance. The new Chair aims to advance just societies through the equitable participation of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in global knowledge production and in the resulting benefits.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, has been awarded the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Politics, Communication and Technology. The new Chair aims to undertake an innovative and interdisciplinary research program focused on the social dynamics of automation and AI in political information environments.
The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication of The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future, written by Faculty Member Dr.Kelly Bronson, and published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry on human-centric cybersecurity frameworks for responsible AI.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois will join the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Societyat Harvard University this fall to lead enquiry into political actors' interactions with artificial intelligence and automated systems.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Global Innovation Journalism Lab released From Flies to File Storage: Policy Issues in the Life-Cycle of Explanatory Journalism, a report co-written by CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois and then postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sabrina Wilkinson, with Dr. Heidi Tworek, Elizabeth Ren and Lui Xia Lee. The report examines the life-cycle of explanatory journalism in order to uncover policy challenges and identify how these issues might be addressed.