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CLTS Faculty Members Prof. Marina Pavlović and Dr. Amy Salyzyn are co-applicants on a Justice and technology research grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a project led by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) on the regulation of technologies designed to assist the general public with legal documents.

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and a CLTS Faculty Member, received, with Dr. Taylor Owen (McGill University), a Canada History Fund grant to run the Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge, a call for proposals for projects examining the uses and impacts of digital media in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election.

CLTS Faculty Member, Dr Amy Salyzyn has received a Justice and technology researchgrant from the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) for a two-year project that will examine how the public reads and understands complex court documents.

Dr. Jason Millar, a Faculty member of the Centre, has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Situated in the Faculty of Engineering, this unique SSHRC-funded Chair will enable Dr. Millar to further develop his interdisciplinary research bringing ethics and policy considerations to bear on the engineering of emerging robo...

As part of the upcoming uOttawa IMPACT Forum, CLTS Faculty members and eQuality leaders Prof. Jane Bailey and Dr. Valerie Steeves propose a set of recommendations to ensure that Canada’s Digital Strategy includes measures to meaningfully and comprehensively address gender-based technology-facilitated violence, and discrimination and harassment.

Medical science has long proven the benefits of taking folic acid for a healthy pregnancy. However, many prenatal supplements sold in Canada contain more than twice the recommended dose of folic acid.

Faculty members Ian Kerr and Teresa Scassa have been appointed to the Government of Canada’s new Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, joining a prestigious group of leading Canadian researchers and business executives to provide advice on how Canada can become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) advancements while ensuring that AI policy and practice reflect Canadian values.

Have you ever noticed how studies focused on the same subject matter, following the same scientific method, can produce very different results? What about being in a position where you need to make informed decisions when faced with inconsistent, and sometimes contrasting, evidence?

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, received a Measuring Impacts & Progress grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario to investigate access to justice issues in consumer standard form contracts. The team at CIPPIC is excited to be tackling this important access to justice issue t...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is pleased to announce that Katie Szilagyi has been named Global Policy Global Fellow by the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio, Brazil).