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Opinion: Addressing Canada’s digital divide requires equitable access to data

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July 7, 2021

Canada needs to address inequities in who has access to the power and promise of data science and advanced analytics, including by supporting training for grassroots, charitable and community organizations to collect, access and manage data, Kelly Nolan, an external affairs and equity, diversity and inclusion expert based in Ottawa, says in an op-ed.

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Organizations:	BC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner and Simon Fraser University
People:	Kelly Nolan
Topics:	academic institutions, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, Canada's digital divide, community-academic collaborations, community-academic data partnership hub, computational research infrastructure, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID's impact on key populations, ensuring equitable access to data science, food insecurity, government policy, human rights organizations, need for disaggregated data, Parliamentary Black Caucus, power differential in using data, Research ethics, Simon Fraser University's Equity Data Commons, social justice, societal inequities, statistical analysis, supporting equity diversity and inclusion, systemic challenges, using data to address society's challenges, and visualization

Opinion: Addressing Canada’s digital divide requires equitable access to data

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