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A leading expert on technology-facilitate violences and abuses, Professor Jane Bailey has been appointed a Research Fellow at the Centre for Protecting Women Online at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England.

With the world celebrating International Women’s Day early in March, the United Nations convened its annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment to address the specific need to strengthen women and girls’ inclusion in innovation and technology. The priority theme this year is innovation and technological change and education in the digi...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Co-Director (interim) and Faculty member Dr. Valerie Steeves has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Surveillance Studies Network, a prize given to distinguished scholars who have made major contributions to the field of surveillance studies.

The AI + Society Initiative is delighted to announce that the short film #tresdancing won the “Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural” award in the “Long Short” category at the Alternative Film Festival.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is pleased to announce that Faculty members Professor Jane Bailey and Dr. Teresa Scassa have been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Council of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which will provide Commissioner Kosseim’s office with independent, expert advice to help ensure a broader range of interests and perspectives are taken into co...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Emerald Publishing published The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse, co-edited by CLTS Faculty Member Prof. Jane Bailey.Digital technologies have led to many important social and cultural changes worldwide, but they are also implicated ...

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.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that the Foundation for Legal Research (FLR) have awarded research grants to Professor Jane Bailey for her work on women and technology and Professor Florian Martin-Bariteau for his new project on secrets and whitleblowers.

Professor Jane Bailey is a co-editor, alongside Karim Benyehklef, Jacquelyn Burkell and Fabien Gelinas, of a new book entitled eAccess to Justice, published by uOttawa Press. It is part of a new series on law and technology and is available for free download.

Professors Jane Bailey and Chidi Oguamanam, faculty members of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, have all been selected as new members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.