“How can we make sure our government services are inclusive, especially as we move into digital transformation and make more services available through digital means (which has impacts to improve inclusivity and also cause exclusion)?” Thinking about my project topic and an additional question springs to mind. When you move towards digital only platforms to […]

Come Again!? Of the 20+ articles/chapters I read this week (plus podcasts, videos, slides, etc.), one line grabbed my attention the most, “…women computer science graduates in the United States peaked in the mid-1980s at 37 percent, and we have seen a steady decline in the years since then to 26 percent today.” 2020. “The […]

Ok I am behind on my blogging but didn’t feel I could really write anything as I had scrapped my initial ideas for my project and wanted to start something new. After a great meeting with JB to discuss some ideas I feel I am back on track. That’s why this feels like a bloggity […]

Well, things have started off with a bang. Just around the time classes were wrapping up last term, China dropped its “zero-covid” policy and leaped into a massive experiment of “let’s see how fast everyone can get covid.” Man, that was fast. After a few weeks, though, where I lived seems to have calmed down […]

November turned into a busy month between classes and my own projects. Outside of these, much of what I wrestled with involved pivoting away from what I had initially thought I was focusing on (as mentioned in my Week 6-7 post) and going back to the drawing board. My Migration and Forced Displacement Intensive was […]

  Submission Receipts = Celebration The past few weeks have been mostly production —  converting the reading, listening, discussing, watching, struggling and thinking from first half of term into inventions, papers, presentations, code, feedback and blog posts. The ‘what’ of this was a decent challenge, but the more significant hurdles have been the ‘how’ of […]

In the course Insights Through Data (ITD), we discussed the topic of data ethics. When conducting research and handling data, ethics is one of the most important areas to think about. In the group breakouts, we were asked to consider if something is legal, does that make it ethical?  Our group said no, as did […]

Wow is it already week 7? I have definitely been thinking more about my project these past two weeks as I participated in two intensives – Indigenous Futures and Neuropolitics of Decision Making. Writing my Exclusion and Inequality essay also provided me with some food for thought.  As you may recall one of the project […]

The Influence of my Coursework In my last post, I talked about (virtually) attending a planetarium show during my Coloniality of Data intensive and having a primarily auditory experience. This got me thinking about which sense(s) we rely on, given our ability, access, etc., which guided my contribution to an Interdisciplinary Futures discussion board the […]

The most significant shift in my understanding of society has come from the Coloniality course. The readings and discussions frequently come back to the concepts of and processes of social categorization and othering, and the reciprocal reinforcement between them.   During the intensive of this class, there was a little field trip over to the […]