A project led by Assistant Professor Jessica Lapp has been chosen as one of four initiatives to receive funding from a new institutional partnership between the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois System.
Entitled “Envisioning Critical Futures for Archives as Data,” the project will be co-led by an Assistant Professor Emily Maemura of the School of Information Sciences at U of I Urbana-Champaign. Both she and Lapp are PhD graduates of the Faculty of Information.
The new partnership aims to build on talent, innovations and resources from the two universities, to accelerate economic development through the development of innovative technologies. Funding for the program comes from U of T’s Office of the Vice-President, International and the U of I System’s President’s Office and the Office of the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation.
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Archives as Data: Envisioning the Future
A project led by Assistant Professor Jessica Lapp has been chosen as one of four initiatives to receive funding from a new institutional partnership between the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois System. Entitled “Envisioning Critical Futures for Archives as Data,” the project will be co-led by an Assistant Professor Emily Maemura of […]
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Announcing the 2025 I.P. Sharp Lecture
As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The Faculty of Information’s 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture will bring together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks.
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy is the theme for two issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal, edited by Professor Leslie Regan Shade of the Faculty of Information and Tamara Shepherd of the University of Calgary. The first issue, which has just been published, focuses on Intersectional Critiques of AI Governance and includes contributions from Faculty […]