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.