Digital Policy and Technology

Meta’s settlement asks families to manage the harms its platforms create. Canada’s online harms rules must go further by holding companies responsible for the safety of their services.

Canada cannot build every layer of the AI stack. But it can, over time, become an essential supplier for the world.

Ottawa’s new AI strategy addresses models and chips. The real contest for AI sovereignty is happening one layer up, in deployment, and Canada is not yet positioned to compete there.

The Foreign Interference Commission identified disinformation as the single greatest threat to Canadian democracy, yet Ottawa’s signature legislation barely touches it.

Better models and Canadian data centres will not fix public-service AI if governments cannot agree on which data to trust.

Why young Canadians are quietly opting out, and what it means for the rest of us.

Where global platforms optimize for engagement, the EBU is built around trust, public service and shared standards. That distinction matters for Canada at a time when trusted information has become a strategic asset.

These digitally empowered campaigns provide guidelines for making change.

Watch Tuesday’s NYC launch of new book by OpenCanada editor-in-chief Taylor Owen.

In the wake of Snowden, governments scrambled to secure their data by regaining “technological sovereignty”. That approach misses the point.

Silicon Valley is great at selling the benefits of technology. But ‘techno-optimist’ Marc Goodman says before we wire the world, we need to secure it.

How drug cartels and gangs are expanding their power, prestige and profits in cyberspace. By Robert Muggah.

Rafal Rohozinski and Robert Muggah on what to expect for tech in 2015.

An interview with Avaaz co-founder Ricken Patel about democracy, the internet and creating change.

Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch on how his organization raises awareness of the crisis in the Central African Republic.

Internet intermediaries are being used by Asian governments to control speech online argues Kieran Bergmann.