Excited to participate on this upcoming panel at this year’s Go Open Data Conference.

Our Digital Community – What’s Needed?

Our digital world holds many challenges as illustrated by Cambridge Analytica, issues related to the local Sidewalk Toronto initiative, the smart cities challenge happening in Canada and differences between our urban and rural communities. This diverse panel will speak to the current state of our digital community and where we need to go.

• Moderator: Jury Konga, Open Knowledge Canada
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair, Information Law and Policy University of Ottawa
• Barbara Swartzentruber, Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation and Intergovernmental Service, City of Guelph
• Pam Ryan, Director, Service Development and Innovation, Toronto Public Library
• Nasma Ahmed, Director Digital Justice Lab

Great visual record of our OCULA Spotlight session: Shaping Smart Cities!

Happy to be a part of two upcoming presentations at the OLA Superconference 2019:

• The OCULA Spotlight session: Shaping Smart Cities

• Overdose Prevention and Response and Libraries: A Panel Discussion

Looking forward to joining this super line-up of public sector leaders at the 2018 Conference Board of Canada conference: Public Sector Transformation 2018: Delivering Digital November 20-21, 2018, and presenting on Toronto Public Library’s transformation and role in Canada creating the world’s best libraries.

As a Creative Commons lifer, I’m thrilled to be able to participate with an amazing group of women, brought together by Kelsey Merkley for Uncommon Women: a conversation in leadership, allies and advocates, and reconciliation at the April Creative Commons Global Summit — so fortunate to have it in Toronto again!

In May, I’ll be on the Digital literacy for all: How can libraries help panel at RightsCon Toronto where this year’s program explores innovation policy in Canada, free expression and protection of global journalism, gender diversity and digital inclusion, encryption and cybersecurity, and other topics relevant to keeping the internet free, open, and secure worldwide.

And in June, at ALA 2018 in New Orleans, I’m participating on the panel: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is… helping to introduce the techniques and framework of evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP) and offering examples from my practice.