Benevity hires first Chief AI Officer
Why It Matters
As an impact and employee engagement platform, Benevity targets corporations and their CSR teams. The platform has amassed a significant amount of data through its products, which it can use to train machine learning algorithms.
Letter to the Prime Minister: Dedicate a unit in government to the non-profit sector
Why It Matters
As you set the vision for a stronger Canada, we urge you to take critical action to strengthen and support non-profits and charities by implementing and resourcing a dedicated unit in government for the non-profit sector.
Data management prototype yields mixed results from non-profits
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Little disclosure of AI in Canadian policing and criminal justice systems
Why It Matters
How an Edmonton social services agency spun out its own tech products
Why It Matters
Technology that is built by and for the non-profit sector is hard to come by. Usually, non-profits end up using an amended version of technology that has been developed for businesses, which focus on transactions rather than relationships, said IslamicFamily’s Executive Director Omar Yaqub.