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Sharlene Gandhi

Sharlene has been reporting on responsible business, environmental sustainability and technology in the UK and Canada since 2018. She has worked with various organizations during this time, including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University, AIGA Eye on Design, Social Enterprise UK and Nature is a Human Right. Sharlene moved to Toronto in early 2023 to join the Future of Good team, where she has been reporting at the intersections of technology, data and social purpose work. Her reporting has spanned several subject areas, including AI policy, cybersecurity, ethical data collection, and technology partnerships between the private, public and third sectors.

Sharlene's Latest Articles

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Indigenous-led AI modelling gets boost, helps build impactful investments

RUNWITHIT Synthetics has received a multi-million dollar investment from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, with the goal of helping more communities make decisions about where best to invest in infrastructure.

How to improve internet affordability in Canada: increase competition, says CRTC
Coalition makes second request for Canadian Nonprofit Data Lab 
Only 25 per cent of Canadian racialized workers belong to a union
ISED seeks non-profits to train students and teachers in AI
Machine learning might exacerbate workforce inequities: Study
Web scraping for non-profit researchers: The breakdown

Web scraping can be useful to help collect real-time data.

The delicate economics of a no-fee fundraising platform: Meet Zeffy

Through an ‘optional contribution’ business model, the Montreal start-up has ensured that 30,000 non-profits can access the total amount of donations they receive.

Universal incomes: where does Canada stand?
Learning more ‘digitally intense’ skills keeps non-profits less reliant on outsourced projects, says new report

Developing in-house software development, data science and cybersecurity skills can help community organizations become more self-reliant and resilient, researchers say.

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