With over 25 years’ experience as founder of two tech companies and a global education charity, Kate Arthur has helped millions of youth and adults navigate the digital age. She works with international organisations, including UNESCO and UNICEF, to continue shaping policies and programs that promote ethical and inclusive AI, with a focus on empowering youth and women worldwide. She is the founder of Digital Moment (Kids Code Jeunesse),a youth education charity; and co-founder of DMCS Canada, a technology service company.
Her book Am I Literate? reveals why redefining literacy is the key to democratising AI. Kate is now working on her next book, exploring human strengths and core skills needed for individual agency and healthy human-machine relationships.
My dad is a civil engineer. He graduated from Leeds University in 1957 and, even at 89, he still proudly calls himself an engineer. He wears the Iron Ring, a silver band worn on the little finger to symbolize a lifelong commitment to professional ethics. It is a daily reminder to uphold high standards and…
How to be, to long, and to belong, when AI keeps getting in the way I spend a lot of time with young people. (I swear it keeps me young!) Whether through the everyday chaos of our home, with my daughters and their friends spending time around my kitchen table, mentoring through tech programmes, or…
(& not the kind found between sofa cushions) December always invites reflection. It’s also the month in which I’ve made some of the most significant changes in my career. This December marks two years since I stepped down as CEO of the educational charity I founded, Digital Moment / Kids Code Jeunesse, after eleven years. It’s…
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“I’ve been thinking seriously about what meaningful impact in education might look like and your book resonated deeply.” – University lecturer
“Your book gave me the confidence I needed to embrace AI.” – Charity Executive Director
“As I read her (Kate’s) book, I found myself not only reflecting on the content but on my own journey. At a moment of personal transition, this book served as a powerful nudge to think expansively and not shy away from spaces that initially feel unfamiliar or beyond my strengths.” – Investor & Community builder
“Your framing of literacy as something broader than what I had first assumed was a critical breakthrough for me. I always knew literacy should be recognized to have more power than what most people assume but you gave me the words and context I was missing.” – Educator and tech designer
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Book Reviews
“Nothing less than a history of, and compelling argument, for deeper human communication and literacy.”
— Nicholas Shakespeare, author Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
“A rich and entertaining exploration of how literacy and education prepare us for massive disruption, highlighting how innovation and AI impact people and the planet.”
— Dr Sasha Luccioni, AI Ethics and Climate Researcher
Am I Literate? celebrates the importance of lifting our communities. Please consider supporting the following organisations who are doing incredible work in education and are also part of the book & the literacy journey!
The Anita Goulden Trust is a UK based charity that financially supports the Anita Goulden Home for children and young adults with disabilities.
The Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) is an international non-profit organisation democratising AI ethics literacy. MAIEI equips citizens concerned about artificial intelligence to take action because civic competence is the foundation of change.
Kate Arthur is a British-Canadian entrepreneur, working with academia, governments, NGOs, and corporations to help bring AI and computing literacy skills into communities and countries worldwide.
Since the early 2000s, she has co-founded two technology companies and founded a digital education charity for youth. Her work has introduced digital skills to over a million children, with a focus on girls and young women- and she has helped build and power up many servers and computers, and written enough lines of code to understand how the digital world is built.
Kate sits on several boards in Canada and the UK, focusing on education, arts, and technology. She also mentors teams of youth and young women through organisations such as AI4Good, K-12 Ethics program, and Young Data Scientists.
Kate is an adviser to the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI), a collaborator with the AI in Education Interdisciplinary Research Hub at Oxford University (AIEOU), and is often invited to lecture at universities.
Internationally, Kate is a speaker on AI and computing literacies and an active contributor to global policy discussions. She has contributed to UNESCO’s AI competency frameworks for teachers and students, and led the UNESCO partnership for the Algorithm and Data Literacy Project. She has served on Canada’s AI Public Awareness Working Group and is a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s AI & SDG committee. Her global expertise is often called on to advise country leadership, including in Europe and Africa, on AI ethics, digital inclusion, and women leadership in technology.
Public recognition includes:
Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100
100 Entrepreneures Qui Changent Le Monde
YWCA Women of Distinction: Education
Women in AI & Ethics,Women in AI – ESG finalist
Visa Entrepreneur/Innovation Leader of the Year
Leader, Empowerment – Women in Communications & Technology
Portrait of Strength -Tech Girls
YES Women in Tech Role model
Best & Brightest – Poets & Quants
A trustee of the Anita Goulden Trust, Kate supports the UK-based charity founded by her grandmother in 1958, which provides financial assistance to the Anita Goulden Home and School in Peru.
Bilingual in English and French, Kate was raised and educated in the UK, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Concordia University (Canada), an Executive MBA from McGill and HEC Montréal (Canada), Board Governance training from the Rotman School of Management (Canada), and certifications in Public Policy, AI & Ethics from the London School of Economics (UK), and Digital Transformation and AI in Government from Oxford University/ UNESCO.
An active volunteer in her community, Kate spends her free time looking after babies at a women’s shelter so their mum’s can go on job interviews and training.
She is also the proud mum of three amazing young women who are dedicated to making the world a safer, more inclusive, and healthier place to live.
