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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

“Digital is here – embrace it, or survive it”: Four key takeaways from the 2022 Dismantling Digital Barriers Summit

Speakers emphasized the role of community ownership and staff involvement in building technology for social impact.

Community services can now replace medical prescriptions — but this will require organizations to share data.

Why real-time, standardized data – and the ability to share it between organizations – is crucial to understanding what is affecting a person’s wellbeing

Experts now say digital access can determine a person’s health — here’s why that matters to social purpose organizations

Low-tech and in-person interventions still need urgent funding, health researchers say

A new Indigenous Connectivity Institute is launching — here’s how it will drive funding towards equitable internet access

The new Indigenous-led Institute will be incubated within and eventually spun out of Connect Humanity

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