The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce that Dr. Henry Fraser and Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino have won the inaugural Scotiabank AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award, and Aileen Nielsen has won the runner-up award.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Tommy Friedlich, Ryan Mosoff, sava saheli singh and Dianah Byaruhanga Ajuna have been awarded the 2021 CLTS Impact Awards.
The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is delighted to announce the launch by researchers at CRAiEDL of Calibrating Stretched Transparency, a multidisciplinary project aiming to explore and disseminate the intersection of geoengineering and AI, while also critiquing its ethical implications through a visual medium.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Marina Pavlović has contributed to Waiting to Connect, a report released by the Canadian Council of Academies to examine the legal, ethical, social, and policy issues associated with deploying and adopting reliable high-speed Internet in rural and remote communities.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy has been appointed to the Public Policy Forum’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, a three-year mandate to better understand, anticipate, and respond to the effects of new digital technologies on public life and Canadian democracy.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Amy Salyzyn has been appointed by the Law Society of Ontario to the Advisory Council supporting the new Access to Innovation Project, the regulatory sandbox five-year pilot project.
The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau has been appointed by the Council of Canadian Academies to an Expert Panel on Public Safety in the Digital Age that will examine the threats to public safety related to the use of digital technologies and how to address them while respecting human rights and privacy.