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January 2021 Economic Update
Jan 8th, 2021
Health Impacts The world may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the global COVID-19 health and economic crisis. After unprecedentedly quick development timelines, a handful of promising...
Applying Artificial Intelligence Intelligently
Nov 24th, 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing in the private sector, the public sector, and computer science departments around the world. However, transforming AI research into a working application for...
Measuring the Unmeasurable
Nov 10th, 2020
Online labour is notoriously difficult to measure. It’s also not an obscure type of work that can be easily disregarded: globally, an estimated (and growing) 48 million people are registered on online...
AI-Assisted Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Oct 20th, 2020
This interview was originally conducted on September 30th, 2020. Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) have made significant advancements in the last ten years, but there are a lot of...
Equitable and Fair Models
Oct 20th, 2020
On October 6, 2020, as part of ICTC’s Technology and Human Right Series , Rosina Hamoni, Research Analyst with ICTC, interviewed Dr. Frank Rudzicz, who holds multiple roles including Director of AI at...
COVID-19, Employment, and Wages
Sep 24th, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it has become well-understood that the economic consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns have been harsher for lower-wage workers. While higher-wage workers are more...
August Employment Update
Sep 8th, 2020
Port of Vancouver, Photo by Ryan McLaughlin Unadjusted employment in Canada grew by about 220,000 from July to August, or 1.2%, according to Statistics Canada. Employment tends to rise in summer due...
Alberta’s Digital Economy Employment
May 4th, 2020
Photo by Chris Henry on Unsplash One year ago, ICTC released the report A Digital Future for Alberta: An Analysis of Digital Occupations in Alberta’s High-Growth Sectors . This report analyzed and...