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2021, Summit Towards Equity, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Media + Information, Science + Techonology, Indigenous Voices

Are recent public investments and policies sufficient to achieve digital inclusion of Indigenous, rural and remote communities? What Indigenous-specific needs must be addressed to secure digital inclusion?

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Education + Research, Equity + Justice

Join the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Public Square Peer Ambassadors for a student-focused event on how to improve the online education experience under COVID-19.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Media + Information, Science + Techonology

Low-income communities continue to experience lower internet access, affordability, and quality. Canadians are at an all-time need for increased access to internet, computer, and tablet devices for e-learning and remote work.

2021, Summit Towards Equity

Join us in a unique virtual environment using Gather to engage directly with ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV faculty, students, staff, alumni and community partners who are moving us Towards Equity with innovative research from a variety of fields and perspectives.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Education + Research, Equity + Justice

This is the first in a series of events being organized by the Centre for Scottish Studies at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Media + Information, Equity + Justice, Indigenous Voices

We are pleased to partner with ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Library to invite you to the Dean's Lecture on Information + Society: an evening of conversation with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Media + Information, Equity + Justice, Indigenous Voices

Desmond Cole and Tanya Talaga, along with moderator Candis Callison, will consider recent attention over the escalation of commentary on the representation of Indigenous, Black, and people of colour; the structural challenges that currently impede calls for greater diversity; and how institutions and platforms can foster a more constructive dialogue.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Media + Information, Science + Techonology

Older adults are less likely to use the internet than younger people in Canada, and many report that information technologies do not improve their quality of life or save time. The issue is more pertinent than ever under the pandemic.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Equity + Justice

Every year, to honour the important legacy of the late Rosemary Brown, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (GSWS) brings together distinguished scholars, students, service providers, and the broader community together to speak on current issues of diversity, ongoing inequalities, and ways to create positive change.

2021, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Summit Towards Equity, Science + Techonology, Media + Information

The federal and provincial governments have taken some steps to improve internet accessibility and adoption among Canadians with disabilities, but there still remain substantial gaps with many facing barriers in accessing digital services.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Climate + Environment, Equity + Justice

Activists, researchers, policy-makers and solution-seekers come together to surface the challenges and opportunities of taking equity-informed approaches to climate research, solutions and policy development.

2021, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Summit Towards Equity, Media + Information

Join us to discuss how Canada can better support our public internet infrastructure for the marginalized communities who rely on them and for everyone.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Equity + Justice, Community Building

Join us to hear inspiring stories from the most recent cohort of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Community Capacity Building Certificate learners and their growth as emerging leaders working towards equity in their communities.

2021, Series Overcoming Digital Divides, Summit Towards Equity, Equity + Justice, Media + Information

Join us to discuss how Canada can better support our public internet infrastructure for the marginalized communities who rely on them and for everyone.

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Economy, Equity + Justice, Future of Work

At this event we will look at the recommendations and analysis of the Final Report of the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income to ask: should a just recovery for all include a basic income?

Equity + Justice, 2021, Summit Towards Equity

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Community Capacity Building Certificate supports learners as they engage community by sharing lived experiences and adopting new tools for building projects and movements. Learners deepen their relationships with themselves, their communities and the land to create a project and move forward a change they’d like to see in the world.

2021, Equity + Justice, Summit Towards Equity

Maps are great tools to bring together a massive amount of data and share it in a format everyone is familiar with. They are also a unique tool to bring unnoticeable realities—including realities of inequality—to visible patterns. This 90-minute workshop will introduce you to how to make a thematic map that highlights an equity indicator.

Equity + Justice, 2021, Climate + Environment, Summit Towards Equity

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Public Square and Vancity are proud to present Hope in Resistance, featuring Melina Laboucan-Massimo, co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action; Anjali Appadurai, climate justice lead at Sierra Club BC; and Naisha Khan, co-founder of Banking on a Better Future, in a conversation moderated by Nahlah Ayed (host of Ideas on CBC Radio One).

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Cities, Equity + Justice

As part of our Classroom Partnership Program, senior ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV geography students will present their work on housing vulnerability in Vancouver, focusing on rental evictions, street sweeps, rental financialization, and housing justice movements.