York University takes significant step forward in journey to net zero
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As part of recent operational actions underway to help York University meet its aspirational target of becoming a net-zero university by 2040, York U has stopped running its fossil-fuelled co-generation units around the clock this summer.
No longer running the co-generation units 24-7 will lead to a more efficiency-based operation schedule that maintains service to the York community while minimizing strain on the provincial energy grid. The change is expected to reduce emissions by 22,000 tonnes and account for 80 per cent of the University’s 2030 emission reduction target.
Co-generation is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of energy from a single fuel source. In York’s case, natural gas has been used to produce both electricity and steam, which is then used for heating and cooling the campus. In traditional generation, excess heat generated through the process of producing electricity is expelled as waste into the atmosphere and waterways. The dual production of both electricity and recoverable heat made co-generation more efficient and cost-effective than other options previously available.
As years have passed, the measure of sustainable practices has changed. Operating the co-generation units around the clock is no longer the most sustainable means to deliver services on campus, and it accounts for a significant portion of York’s annual carbon dioxide emissions.
To reduce the continuous operation of the co-generation units, the University’s Energy Management team created a plan to deliver heating and cooling to the campus by employing strategies that use data analysis to help determine the most effective, efficient and sustainable way to do so, while maximizing comfort and minimizing carbon emissions. While the co-generation units may still be used, it is expected that they will run only when necessary and for approximately five per cent of the year – a significant shift from around-the-clock operation.
In November 2023, President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lentonannounced York’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions a decade earlier than originally planned. The aspiration is part of the University’s recently renewed Sustainability Policy, which includes a commitment to develop and implement a process to track, measure, evaluate and report progress toward net-zero emissions.
The adjustment to the co-generation units will get York 80 per cent of the way to its target of curbing emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 – a near-term target on the journey to net zero.
“In the 1990s, York was an early adopter in making operational improvements to reduce our emissions, including transitioning away from coal-generated electricity and using natural gas instead to help lower our emissions,” says Carol McAulay, vice-president finance and administration. “This significant step to decarbonize our central plant for heating and cooling highlights our continued leadership and innovation to support our net-zero target.”
The co-generation shift is the first of many projects the Energy Management team expects to implement as part of its action plan to decarbonize the central plant and modernize energy management at York. Additional projects that better use data to inform operations are forthcoming.
Lassonde staff member recognized for creativity, commitment to students
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Chantel Thompson, a student success and academic advisor at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Lynda Tam Guiding Light & Legacy Award from the Advising Community of Practice and Peer Leader Community of Practice. The award recognizes Thompson’s unwavering commitment to students through her creativity and excellence in academic advising.
Chantel Thompson
“Receiving the Lynda Tam Award is extremely meaningful to me,” said Thompson. “It means that the work that we do as advisors is important and impactful. It means that advisors like myself can be recognized for the incredible work that we do in supporting student success.”
The annual award was established to honour Lynda Tam, who served as the first assistant dean of students in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. By shaping student services, advising and peer mentoring programs at York U, Tam had a profound impact on student experience. She was also a founding co-chair of the Peer Leader Community of Practice. Through her creative and imaginative approach, Tam developed programs and initiatives that helped students excel and reach their academic, personal and professional goals. She exemplified student service excellence across the University and was a coach and a guiding light to students, staff and faculty.
Praised for her creativity and dedication, Thompson embodies many of Tam’s qualities. According to her nominators, she has significantly contributed to building an engaging and student-centred advising practice at Lassonde. She has been a driving force behind Lassonde’s innovative approach to University-wide pop-up advising fairs, incorporating activities such as trivia games, prizes and Faculty mascot appearances. The initiatives she has spearheaded, such as the student appreciation pancake breakfast and the new student handbook, have profoundly impacted students’ academic journeys.
Thompson’s nominators – all colleagues from Lassonde – feel strongly that this recognition is well deserved.
“Chantel continuously demonstrates creativity and imagination in her work,” said Caitlin Hicks, a student success and academic advisor at Lassonde. “Her passion and creativity are infectious, making her an inspiration to her colleagues and a valuable asset to our student community.”
Althea Smikle-Brown, manager of student advising at Lassonde, had this to say: “Chantel’s dedication to student success is evident in her proactive approach and her ability to think outside the box. Her empathetic approach and genuine care have positively impacted countless students.”
Lauren Hall, advising co-ordinator at Lassonde, added, “Chantel speaks up on behalf of students and her colleagues. She is committed to social justice and advocates for equality and inclusivity at every turn.”
As part of the award, artwork was commissioned by Paria Shahverdi, a master’s student from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. The piece, named Path to Light, was inspired by Lynda’s essence – her warmth, grace and nurturing spirit – and symbolizes the tranquility she embodied and sought. “This painting exemplifies the light, imagination and hope Lynda illuminated for those around her,” said Karen MacKinnon, a member of the selection committee.
The award and accompanying artwork were presented to Thompson in a surprise meeting that included her colleagues, members of the selection committee and her nominators – Smikle-Brown, Hicks and Hall.
Reflecting on the importance of the award, and her role in student outcomes, Thompson had this to say: “The concept of ‘student success’ is complex and nuanced – encompassing more than just academic success,” she said. “It’s about a student’s ability to put their mind to anything and see it through, regardless of the challenges and barriers they may encounter. This award shines a light on all those who contribute to transforming those complexities into all of the beautiful outcomes they may be.”
Summer course teaches cultural understanding through movement
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Professor Patrick Alcedo with York University students after the Philippine Folk Dance and Culture course’s first recital at the Philippine Women’s University in Manila.
By Elaine Smith
After 16 years of teaching Philippine folk dance to York University students in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, Professor Patrick Alcedo decided it was time to take students to the Southeast Asian nation to learn new dances in their original settings.
Alcedo’s Summer 2024 course, Philippine Folk Dance and Culture, immersed the students in the world of Philippine dance for three weeks, bringing them into contact with students and faculty from five universities, as well as a national dance troupe, as they learned new steps and movement sequences.
“It was time to offer a course in situ, and it’s especially meaningful this year because it’s the 75th anniversary of Canada-Philippines diplomatic relations,” said Alcedo. “York has an agreement with a consortium of five universities, and we visited all of them in three weeks. It was a whirlwind.”
The course provided the 11 student participants with a mixture of studio work, lectures and performance opportunities. They learned dances from teachers at each of the universities and put on three recitals. They also learned about the cultural context of the different styles of dance and how they related to the country’s colonial past.
“This experience allowed me to integrate with other students, to learn from world-renowned dancers, and to learn the cultural history of folk dance and the Philippines,” said fourth-year student Anna Paddon.
York U students in rehearsal for their first dance recital at the Philippine Women’s University, under the direction of faculty member Leo Lorilla, who is also a Bayanihan performing artist.
Students began their adventure at Philippine Women’s University in Manila, home to the Bayanihan – the national dance company of the Philippines. There, they learned six new dances in one week and also took a day trip to Ateneo de Manila, one of the country’s oldest universities.
Next came a visit to Bulacan State University, one of the country’s fastest-growing post-secondary institutions. York U students joined Bulacan students for a screening of Alcedo’s documentary film, A Will to Dream, which focuses on underprivileged dancers and the power of movement to change their lives. After the screening, the two groups were led to the university’s performance hall to dance together.
After heading back to Manila for a visit to Eastern University, a private school known for its art deco-style architecture, York U students learned a new dance from local instructors while Alcedo taught a group of local students.
The next stop was the Quezon City Performing Arts Development Foundation, home to the dance program for at-risk youth featured in Alcedo’s documentary. There, the York U class enjoyed a student performance followed by an Indigenous music class.
“Our students were able to see the power of dance to lift people from poverty with skills for a better future,” Alcedo said.
To close out the trip, the class visited the University of the Philippines in Diliman. In addition to being Alcedo’s alma mater, it is also home to the internationally touring Filipiniana Dance Group, headed by Alcedo’s brother, Peter Alcedo Jr., who is also a dancer. The York U students learned four new dances, including a northern Philippines folk dance based on research done by the Alcedo brothers.
Overall, the York U students learned 15 new dances in four different Philippine styles: Filipinized Spanish dance; lowland Christian dance, seen in agricultural areas; Muslim Philippine dance, prevalent in the south of the country; and Cordillera dances from the north.
“This was the heart of the course – really experiencing the different ways Philippine folk dance is practised in the country,” explained Alcedo. “The plurality of practices demonstrates how people respond to colonialism and modernity in different ways…. this transnational work enriches our dance program.”
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York-affiliated athletes competing for gold at 2024 Olympic Games
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Athletes and medical team members with ties to York University are set to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, beginning July 26, representing a spectrum of sports such as volleyball, judo, rugby and more.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will host several York-affiliated athletes who have competed at previous games, including Tokyo 2020, as well as several new faces making their Olympic debut.
The Olympic-bound people are:
Amandev Aulakh
Amandev Aulakh: Team Canada Medical Team Aulakh, a sports medicine physician at York University, has been a member of the Lions team since July 2022 and has previous experience serving on the medical staff for Team Canada at the 2022 Under-17 (U17) FIFA Women’s World Cup. She will travel to Paris to be part of the core medical team for Team Canada.
She served in a similar role for the 2019 Winter Universiade, the 2019 Parapan American Games and the 2020 Summer Paralympics, and she was the chief medical officer at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
Charlotte Bolton
Charlotte Bolton: Para Athletics A member of the Lions track and field team from 2021 to 2022, Bolton is an athlete who won gold medals in Ontario University Athletics (OUA) para shot-put and para weight throw, as well as the U Sports para shot-put gold medal.
Since then, Bolton has earned several Canadian throwing records in women’s F41 – a classification for field athletes with short stature – and currently ranks in the top 10 in the world in shot-put and discuss.
Bolton previously represented Canada at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and the Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games. In Tokyo, Bolton placed sixth in both the shotput and discus.
Dan Dearing
Dan Dearing: Beach Volleyball Dearing played with the Lion’s men’s volleyball team from 2011 to 2013 following a successful high-school career, having won the under-18 national championship in 2008 as a tournament all-star. While at York U, he captured the gold medal at the Ontario provincial beach volleyball championships in 2012.
Paris 2024 marks Dearing’s Olympic debut, after winning the North, Central American and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) Olympic Qualification Tournament in June, building on previous wins of silver at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and winning the NORCECA Beach Tour Final in 2022.
Shady El Nahas
Shady Elnahas: Judo Elnahas competed as a wrestler at York U in 2017. That year, he was nominated for rookie of the year (based on a near-perfect 23-1 record in OUA competition) and was named the men’s wrestling most valuable player.
Since then, Elnahas has earned several prestigious medals as he shifted from wrestling to judo, including two golds at the Pan American Judo Championships in 2019 and 2020; gold at the 2021 International Judo Federation (IJF) Judo Grand Slam; gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games; gold at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games; five back-to-back golds at the Pan American Championships; and silver at the 2024 IJF World Championships.
Elnahas made his Olympic debut at the Tokyo Olympics, where he finished with a fifth-place ranking after playing his way to the bronze medal match. He is headed into the Paris 2024 games as the third-ranked man in the world in his weight class.
Melissa Humana-Paredes
Melissa Humana-Parades: Beach Volleyball Humana-Parades played with the Lion’s women’s volleyball team from 2010 to 2014 – winning back-to-back OUA Championships – and was recognized as York U’s 2011-12 female athlete of the year and a three-time OUA all-star.
Since then, Humana-Parades has become a six-time International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) gold medallist, a 12-time FIVB medallist, a five-time Canadian champion, a two-time Association of Volleyball Professionals champion, a Commonwealth Games champion and, most recently, a world champion, earning the first-ever gold for Canada at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships.
Humana-Parades previously represented Canada at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
Asia Hogan-Rochester
Asia Hogan-Rochester: Rugby Hogan-Rochester played with the York Lions women’s rugby team in 2018, while at the same time competing on the track and field team. Afterwards, they went on to represent Canada’s women’s rugby sevens senior squad at the Lima 2019 and Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
During their career, Hogan-Rochester also earned the women’s rugby rookie of the year award and the women’s track and field rookie of the year award for their efforts in the 2019 U Sports season.
Arthur Szwarc
Arthur Szwarc: Volleyball Szwarc played with the Lions men’s volleyball team from 2014 to 2016, earning an OUA bronze medal with the team in the 2014-15 season.
While at York University, Szwarc was already representing Canada competitively – at the 2015 Universiade and FIVB Junior World Championship, and winning bronze at the 2015 U21 Pan Am Cup. He debuted with the senior national team at the 2017 FIVB World League, helping Canada win a bronze medal – the team’s first podium finish at a FIVB international event.
Szwarc made his Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, where Canada finished eighth after making it to the quarterfinals.
Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq
Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq: Swimming Tariq was a member of the York University Lions competitive swim team before going on to compete for Pakistan at the South Asian Games in 2016, earning four gold medals during the trials in 2015. He won the 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle events and also broke two national records while winning the 50-metre and 100-metre backstroke events.
In 2018, he participated in the Commonwealth Games and made his Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 competition, where he finished 62nd in the men’s 100-metre freestyle.
Katie Vincent
Katie Vincent: Canoe-Kayak Sprint Vincent, a student in York U’s Faculty of Health, first represented Canada in rowing at the 2013 World Junior Championships, making a quick impact by earning the team two gold medals the following year at the same competition.
Vincent has since added to that accomplishment, having earned over 10 medals – almost half of them gold – at the Canoe Sprint World Cup before going into the 2024 Paris games. She has also earned several World Championship medals.
She made her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020, finishing in eighth place in her solo competition and earning bronze for Canada in the team competition.
Brandie Wilkerson
Brandie Wilkerson: Beach Volleyball Wilkerson played with the Lion’s women’s volleyball team from 2010 to 2014. During that time, she was York U’s female rookie of the year in 2010-11, an OUA rookie of the year award winner and a four-time OUA all-star.
After York U, Wilkerson went on to represent Canada at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where she and her partner Heather Bansley made it to the quarterfinals, matching Canada’s best-ever Olympic result in women’s beach volleyball.
Wilkerson will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics with a new partner, fellow York U alumna and teammate Humana-Paredes.
The pair have been competing as partners since October 2022, and have earned several notable wins, including top-five placements at FIVB world events and silver at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
Shannon Westlake
Shannon Westlake: Shooting Westlake, an alumna of York University, won bronze medals in the women’s 50-metre rifle three positions events at both the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and the 2024 Continental Championships of the Americas in early April.
Paris 2024 marks Westlake’s first Olympic Games, but she is no stranger to the competitive arena. With three Pan Am Games – including her debut at Toronto 2015 – under her belt, she brings a wealth of experience and unwavering determination to the Olympic stage.
Doctoral student named Trudeau Scholar
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By Alexander Huls, deputy editor, YFile
Zoe M. Savitsky, a doctoral candidate at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, was named a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar for work that promises to examine the ways corporations gained the power of expression and how they have expanded and defended that power. The recognition marks not just a professional accomplishment for Savitsky but one reflective of a new chapter in her journey.
Before becoming a PhD student at York U in 2023, Savitsky approached her legal work in an altogether different manner. For over a decade, she had a successful legal career in the United States working in high-impact government and non-profit organization litigation and leadership roles, including at the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
As a Trudeau Scholar, Savitsky will pursue work rooted in experiences from her legal career, notably her time with the Oakland City Attorney’s Office. There, Savitsky collaborated with in-house teams, other local and state governments, non-profits, civil society groups, and the private bar on litigation involving local, national and multinational corporations – such as opioid companies, fossil fuel companies and real estate companies – whose actions harmed Oaklanders. Many of those cases centred on allegations that the corporations in question had engaged in false, deceptive or misleading speech that caused real-world harm.
Zoe M. Savitsky
Savitsky found herself considering larger questions around how modern systems of litigation sometimes allow corporations to “get away” with harmful deception. As she noted, it has often taken decades for litigants to win cases about corporate deception, if they ever do, citing as examples cases about how tobacco companies misled the public about the health risks of tobacco; how paint companies continued advertising lead paint despite their knowledge that it was a dangerous neurotoxin; and how the opioid industry understated the risks and harms and oversold the benefits of its products.
“My current project is very much an extension of all of that work,” says Savitsky of the work she will now pursue through her scholarship, which examines how corporations became legal persons with speech or expression rights, and how corporations have expanded and defended those rights in the litigation ecosystems of the United States and Canada.
“I hope to understand how things came to be as they are today in the world of transnational corporate accountability and, in particular, to understand the history and context for how it is often challenging to hold corporations meaningfully accountable for their contributions to some of the most existential problems facing the world today.”
The decision to pursue academic work led Savitsky to Canada, eager to grow as a scholar and learn from people outside the United States who were working on corporate accountability, but it wasn’t easy to move away from a professional and personal support system built over decades. “Leaving that network – which includes people who have become not just colleagues but close friends – for a new country and context was hard,” says Savitsky. “But as my scholarship draws on the issues and themes I had the opportunity to work on in my litigation career, I will continue to get to engage with many of the people I collaborated with and learned from in the past.”
Nonetheless, she saw the move as worthwhile. “Opportunities like the Trudeau Scholarship will allow me to build anew in this new context, in addition to how I’ve already had the chance to start building meaningful new relationships at Osgoode and at York more broadly,” Savitsky says.
The recent recognition from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation should prove a significant stepping stone in accomplishing that.
The Trudeau Foundation Scholarship is a prestigious, three-year leadership program that provides doctoral candidates with skills to translate their ideas into action, for the betterment of their communities, Canada and the world.
It also provides a strong communal element through fellows and mentors who are leaders in respective disciplines and offer scholars important guidance as they move forward in their careers.
“From the beginning, my interest in the Trudeau program has been because of its people,” says Savitsky. “I appreciate the resources the scholarship provides to PhD candidates, but the people are the fundamental heart, and draw, of the foundation. Of course, I am also thrilled that the Trudeau Foundation’s scientific cycle centres the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is at the core of my doctoral work.”
Savitsky hopes that through her work, now supported by the Trudeau Scholarship, she can make a positive impact in the field of corporate accountability – and beyond. “I also hope the story I plan to tell through my doctorate is informative to people outside of the legal academy, including to those in other academic disciplines, such as political science, and to those actively working – whether for governments, for non-profits and NGOs, in civil society, as community leaders and so on – to make the world a better, safer, healthier place overall,” she says.
Professor recognized for exemplary lifetime contributions to the study of Earth
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York University Professor Spiros Pagiatakis received the Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Medal, which recognizes a Canadian scholar’s outstanding contributions throughout their career to the geosciences – the study of the Earth – and counts as the highest national honour earned by those in the field.
“I am deeply honoured and privileged to be awarded the highest accolade of geosciences and join the previous 45 laureates,” says Pagiatakis of the medal, which was given to him in recognition of a lifetime of contributions to the advancement of knowledge and education in Canadian geosciences. He is only the third York-affiliated person to receive the award.
Spiros Pagiatakis
Pagiatakis joined York U in 2001, after already having made a nearly decade-long impact in the field as a lead senior research scientist for the federal Department of Natural Resources Canada. In both his professional and academic careers, Pagiatakis has dedicated himself to the study of the Earth as observed from terrestrial and space platforms, with highly innovative work and discoveries starting from the Earth’s inner core motions. He has specialized in measuring and understanding the planet’s geometric and physical shape, and how its internal forces – like plate tectonics – bend form, deform and more, as well as how its atmosphere and gravity operate.
Pagiatakis has tackled innovative research questions across the spectrum of geodesy and Earth sciences, with groundbreaking findings that led to the recent recognition.
Among Pagiatakis’s innovations in the field, he pioneered a better understanding of deformation of the Earth due to the dynamics of ocean tides, as well developed the first map of Canada and the U.S. showing how gravity changes with time due to the rebounding of the Canadian land mass due to climate change and the melting of the ice since the last ice age glacial maximum, some 23 thousand years ago.
Since joining York U, his interests have shifted to space science, which has led to important discoveries highlighting how dynamics in the Earth’s lower and upper atmosphere influence, impact and shape climate science.
Pagiatakis’s work has been recognized and funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, the GEOIDE National Centre of Excellence, the Carbon Management Canada National Centre of Excellence, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Innovation Trust and Natural Resources Canada.
Pagiatakis’s impact has also extended beyond research by influencing future generations in the field, notably at York University. He was one of a handful of pioneers who created the first engineering programs and accreditation at York U, which ultimately led to the founding of the Lassonde School of Engineering, where he served as the inaugural associate dean of research and graduate studies for five years. He has also led the development of innovative methods of teaching in a virtual classroom environment and in blended course delivery to university students and engineering professionals before online teaching became commonplace.
A lifetime of efforts aren’t limited to the administrative, however. Pagiatakis has been a passionate teacher, deeply invested in collaborating and supervising graduate students to help guide the next generation of pioneers in the field of geophysics. Former students – many of whom now work for top organizations like NASA, the European Space Agency and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, and in academia in Canada and abroad – credit him for providing high-quality graduate education, training and mentoring opportunities in an equitable, safe, welcoming and encouraging environment built on trust, where acceptance, openness, motivation, enthusiasm and curiosity have been paramount.
For his part, Pagiatakis is reluctant to take too much credit for what he has accomplished. “My graduate students are the heart, the soul and inspiration of our research; without them nothing would be possible” he says.
Nonetheless, as one of his J. Tuzo Wilson Medal nominators emphasized, Pagiatakis “is one of those exceptional scientists who do not shy away from various administrative and organizational duties someone has to undertake in order to keep science healthy.” His dedication to doing just that – keeping his field of science thriving with his career, academic work and mentorship – are what now have earned him the recognition his students would agree he’s long deserved.
Digital inclusion plays key role in financial inclusion, according to new Schulich study
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New research from York University’s Schulich School of Business shows that digital inclusion – the policy of providing greater access to high-speed internet – plays a key role in gaining greater access to credit, particularly in regions with marginalized and underserved populations.
Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam
The research findings are contained in the paper “Digital Inclusion and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending,” published in the Journal of Business Ethics. The paper was co-authored by Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam, a professor of accounting and the Ron Binns Chair in Financial Reporting, Banking and Governance at Schulich, together with Xiaoran (Jason) Jia, an assistant professor of accounting at Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and a former PhD student of Kanagaretnam’s.
“We found robust evidence that digital inclusion – a public policy designed to provide high-speed internet infrastructure for historically digitally excluded populations – is positively associated with the greater access to capital by people from marginalized communities,” said Kanagaretnam.
The study generated a number of additional findings, including the discovery that digital inclusion may contribute to higher lending rates due to the availability of more information about borrowers that assist lenders in their decision-making process, and the strong likelihood that digital inclusion may facilitate faster loan approvals.
The research findings also showed digital inclusion led to higher lending penetration in areas underserved by traditional banks as well as areas with greater minority populations.
“These results suggest that digital inclusion plays a key role in financial inclusion, particularly in regions with more vulnerable and/or underserved populations,” noted Kanagaretnam.
Rabit Akande
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Professor Rabit Akande’s book, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria, received an honourable mention from the Canadian Law & Society Association’s W. Wesley Pue Book Prize
