The Life-Work Balance: A Right to Disconnect, A Requirement to Work
by Lee Rickwood
With the era of the 9-to-5 workday over, companies and workers need new parameters to structure their work efforts and interact productively.
Tag: Women & Tech
Canadian Woman Brings Equity-Based Thinking and Practice to Tech Companies
By Yasmin Ranade
Canadian tech needs to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) because we’re at a critical moment in history where technology can either exacerbate existing inequities or make things a lot better.
Interactive Technology Puts Women, Homelessness, and Invention in Public Art Spotlight
By Lee Rickwood
A new public art activation in Toronto makes use of interactive technology to spotlight issues faced by women – including the challenges of homelessness, but also the obstacles of chauvinism.
The Tech Nose: Sniffing the Air with Technology to Detect COVID, Track Humans, Check Animals
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian technologists and researchers are among those developing techniques and technologies to sample the air for signs of disease, infection, even endangered animal species.
Pandemic Hits Women Hard; Female Entrepreneurs Strike Back with Ownr-ship Support
by Lee Rickwood
As important as Canadian women entrepreneurs are important to the country’s economic success, women still face unique and systemic barriers to starting and growing a business, and they remain underrepresented in the economy – pandemic or not.
IT Training for Indigenous Women Launches at University College of the North with Help from HP
by Lee Rickwood
“What the North lacks in IT, we make up in potential waiting to be discovered,” said Rob Penner, project leader on a new high tech installation at the University College of the North, where Penner is Associate Vice‐President of Community and Industry Solutions.
BlackBerry and Canadian Girl Guides Succeed in Cybersecurity Program
By Yasmin Ranade
To mark International Women’s Day, Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada (GGC) and BlackBerry Limited today announced the success of their joint cybersecurity skills-based program. With the cybersecurity industry facing a significant talent – and gender gap – a big part of the program’s aim was to ‘spark’ cybersecurity interest at a young age.
COVID Info Sites Target Youth, Young People with Social Media, Reliable Information
by Lee Rickwood
The need for effective countermeasures to fight the spread of the coronavirus, and for reliable information to fight our confusion, anxiety, or skepticism about COVID-19, is paramount.