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Guidelines

At IVADO, we are pleased to contribute to the success of events and projects initiated by stakeholders in the digital intelligence (DI) community. In keeping with our commitment to fostering inclusive development of DI, we also support initiatives that promote equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

How to submit a request

All applications for assistance must be submitted using this online form. You must provide the following information:

• Full contact information for your organization (legal name, name and title of contact person, phone number and e-mail address of contact person, website address);
• General information (brief profile of the organization, area of activity, target clientele, geographical region);
• Brief description of the event or project (title, date and location, expected number of participants, objectives or expected benefits);
• How you want us to be involved (e.g., type of co-operation, amount requested).

Eligibility criteria

For your application to be considered for review:

• You must submit it at least 30 days before the scheduled date of your event;
• Your organization must not have received funding from us during the current fiscal year (April 1 to March 31);
• Your organization must be active in one of the following areas and spheres of activity:
  • Areas: university, institutional, humanitarian, industrial, community;
  • Spheres: agriculture, arts and culture, business and finance, energy and environment, transport and logistics, health, science and technology;
• Your initiative must match one of the components of our Mission Statement;
• Your initiative must pertain to digital intelligence in the broad sense, or be targeted in one of our areas of expertise (data analysis, operations research, artificial intelligence).

Evaluation criteria

The digital intelligence ecosystem is booming. We receive many requests to support initiatives, which we assess thoroughly based on a range of criteria – notably, does the event or project:

• contribute to advancement of research in DI?
• promote training of new talent or knowledge transfer?
• contribute to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the DI ecosystem?
• encourage members of underrepresented groups to study or embark on careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)?
• foster economic and social development?

The decision on whether to support a given initiative is at our sole discretion. We use one or more of the above criteria to determine which events or projects will receive our support.

General guidelines

At IVADO, we are pleased to contribute to the success of events and projects initiated by stakeholders in the digital intelligence (DI) community. In keeping with our commitment to fostering inclusive development of DI, we also support initiatives that promote equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).

How to submit a request

All applications for assistance must be submitted using this online form. You must provide the following information:

• Full contact information for your organization (legal name, name and title of contact person, phone number and e-mail address of contact person, website address);
• General information (brief profile of the organization, area of activity, target clientele, geographical region);
• Brief description of the event or project (title, date and location, expected number of participants, objectives or expected benefits);
• How you want us to be involved (e.g., type of co-operation, amount requested).

Eligibility criteria

For your application to be considered for review:

• You must submit it at least 30 days before the scheduled date of your event;
• Your organization must not have received funding from us during the current fiscal year (April 1 to March 31);
• Your organization must be active in one of the following areas and spheres of activity:
  • Areas: university, institutional, humanitarian, industrial, community;
  • Spheres: agriculture, arts and culture, business and finance, energy and environment, transport and logistics, health, science and technology;
• Your initiative must match one of the components of our Mission Statement;
• Your initiative must pertain to digital intelligence in the broad sense, or be targeted in one of our areas of expertise (data analysis, operations research, artificial intelligence).

Evaluation criteria

The digital intelligence ecosystem is booming. We receive many requests to support initiatives, which we assess thoroughly based on a range of criteria – notably, does the event or project:

• contribute to advancement of research in DI?
• promote training of new talent or knowledge transfer?
• contribute to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the DI ecosystem?
• encourage members of underrepresented groups to study or embark on careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)?
• foster economic and social development?

The decision on whether to support a given initiative is at our sole discretion. We use one or more of the above criteria to determine which events or projects will receive our support.

Specific guidelines for requests pertaining to EDI

• Your initiative is aimed specifically at data science via promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) if the target audience is not post-secondary.
• Your initiative clearly addresses an issue covered in our reference framework for EDI:AREA 1 – Talent: increase the participation and voice of groups that are underrepresented in digital intelligence* in order to broaden the talent pool and ideas that make up our ecosystem;
• • *The underrepresented groups identified by the Canada Research Chairs Program are women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples and members of visible minorities. However, we encourage members of other underrepresented groups not on that list to apply (e.g., LGBTQ2+ community, various socio-economic groups).
  • AREA 2 – Institutions: understand and remove the structural and institutional barriers to the inclusion of these groups in their education and careers;
  • AREA 3 – Knowledge: strengthen the quality, benefits and social relevance of training and research in digital intelligence by taking into account diversity and bias issues in knowledge production.
• You propose a clear solution to the issue in question. The solution must include objectives and outcome indicators that demonstrate concrete impacts relative to equity, diversity and inclusion.
• You will use our funding to address the EDI-related issue. Eligible expense categories include:
  1. 1. Outreach;
     2. Engagement-Consultation-Dialogue;
     3. Awareness;
     4. Training;
     5. Research;
     6. Implementation of digital solutions promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.

Examples: communications, steering committee, consultative processes, follow-up with various communities, dialogue activities, listening-based processes, mentoring activities, etc.

• Your initiative is ongoing (we now only occasionally support one-time events).
• You will engage our IVADO human resources on strategic aspects only.
• As the applicant, you must demonstrate at least one commitment to equity, diversity and/or inclusion by your organization.

Examples: sound governance (gender-balanced, diverse board of directors or steering committee), inclusive communications, reference framework for EDI, documentation of profiles of participants in any type of activity within the organization, etc.