News

2021

• The AI + Society Initiative announces the 2022 Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award

  Posted on Monday, December 13, 2021

  

  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.

• A look back at November 2021

  

  The CTLS Monthly Newsletter

• The CLTS announces the 2021 CLTS Impact Awards recipients

  Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2021

  

  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.

• Researchers launch Calibrating Stretched Transparency, a multidisciplinary conversation on AI and climate change

  Posted on Friday, November 19, 2021

  

  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.

• A look back at October 2021

  

  The CTLS Monthly Newsletter

• Marina Pavlović contributes to Canadian Council of Academies’ report on high-speed Internet in rural and remote communities

  Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2021

  

  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.

• Vivek Krishnamurthy appointed to the Public Policy Forum’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression

  Posted on Monday, October 18, 2021

  

  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. 

• A look back at September 2021

  

  The CTLS Monthly Newsletter

• Amy Salyzyn appointed to the Law Society of Ontario’s Access to Innovation Project Advisory Council

  Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2021

  

  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.

• Florian Martin-Bariteau appointed on Council of Canadian Academies’ expert panel on public safety in the digital age

  Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2021

  

  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.