by Caroline Isautier | Apr 5, 2024 | Digital Citizenship, Sustainability
As facilitators of sustainability workshops in Ontario and Canada, we are asked about sustainable Technology products and services participants can look to to reduce or recycle their electronic waste (ewaste). Below is an initial list of Canada-wide and Toronto-based...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 23, 2024 | Digital Citizenship, Sustainability
Here are some ressources on climate change to follow up on a public Climate Fresk workshop in Canada. Link to the Climate Fresk Card Wiki for more info and an official version of the frescoe. The social tipping point for change is 25% of people acting. ...
by Caroline Isautier | Jul 5, 2023 | Digital Citizenship
Canada follows France and Australia, among other countries, in asking the likes of Meta (Facebook) and Google to pay publishers for the news excerpts they publish. Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez succeeded in passing bill C-18, aka the Online News Act this...
by Caroline Isautier | Apr 9, 2023 | Digital Citizenship
Here’s a regularly updated list of complaints, lawsuits and civil or government opposition to the ChatGPT AI tool, or ” ChatTNT “, as I prefer to call it, for its destructive capabilities- alongside its useful ones, as always. Yoshua Bengio, one of...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 27, 2023 | Digital Citizenship, Education
I asked ChatGPT, the AI Language Model ( “LLM”) about the dangers it represented for news in March 2023, after this nuclear weapon was released without notice or protection by OpenAI at the end of 2022. So, here are some personal conclusions in response to...
by Caroline Isautier | Jan 18, 2023 | Digital Citizenship
After becoming an overnight success during the pandemic, Zoom received criticism for its privacy practices. We as an organization concerned with privacy even tried every possible way to avoid using it, as described here, in 2021. It seems Zoom reacted and improved its...