Toolkit #7: Knowledge Mobilization

This session will walk-through methodologies, toolkits, and analytical approaches for understanding the importance of inclusive data and GBAPlus frameworks in foreign policy contexts. To counter existing (traditionally silo’d) frameworks, data feminism is being leveraged as a more intersectional, participative, and inclusive approach to understanding digital technology’s role in society. In practice, building capacity for quality evidence for decision making processes is about fostering connections to encourage cross-collaboration, as part of data-policy workflow.

Bio: Priya Kumar has been at Global Affairs Canada since 2019, specializing in foreign policy issues at the intersection of digital technology, gender, and human rights. This includes thinking through new data methods and technical approaches that may be better suited for today’s complex digital threats to democracy such as online hate, disinformation, and evolving gender-based violence, to name a few. Priya serves as Professor of Practice in the Master of Public Policy and Digital Society program at McMaster University.