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The Next-Level Border: Advancing Technology & Expanding Trade
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This report summarizes what was heard at two roundtables on how to enhance the Canada-U.S. border with tech to facilitate trade.
Date: Monday July 30, 2018
Technology-Enabled Innovations in the Skills and Employment Ecosystem
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This paper outlines places where technology can or is providing innovative approaches to skills training. This includes the assessment of skills, development of skills, and the alignment of supply and demand — including advancing bias-free recruitment. With real-world examples from around the world, it also reviews how technology can improve access, diversity and workplace inclusivity amongst equity-seeking groups.
Date: Tuesday November 3, 2020
Thinking Twice About Technology and the Future of Work
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Technology is being used to change power balances in workplaces and to perpetuate long-standing precarious employment relationships, Jim Stanford argues. But the exploitative practices of the gig economy reflect deliberate choices, rather than the inevitable onward march of technology, and creating better jobs also lies within our power.
Date: Wednesday January 22, 2020
Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service
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Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
Date: Friday March 8, 2019
What Needs to Change in a Changing Climate: Managing Risk Requires Decisive Policy and Innovative Technology
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Innovative policy, new technology, faster adaptation and ways to build public support are all needed to manage climate-change risks, which will be critically important to Canada for decades to come.
Date: Thursday January 17, 2019
Dr. Tom Chau: Bringing voice to the voiceless with technology
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...is much excitement over the prospect of a direct brain-computer interface. The notion has attracted attention from sources like Neuralink, the neurotechnology company founded by Tesla’s Elon Musk, as well...
Date: Tuesday May 22, 2018
Improving Public Services: A Strategic Approach to Digital Infrastructure
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By shifting its policies on technology procurement and embracing a more collaborative development approach with Canadian innovators; government could also enable Canada’s technology sector to compete more successfully in global markets.
Date: Thursday August 27, 2020
Recommendations to Strengthen Canada’s Response to New Digital Technology and Reduce the Harm Caused by their Misuse
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How can we create a vibrant digital public sphere that doesn’t by design expose people to an ocean of baser instincts — much less to hatred and abuse? The Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression explores the question of online harms, as Canadians spend more and more time on the Internet, particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic. These 42 members, randomly selected from a pool of volunteers, who we hope represent the widest possible range of voices and perspectives, come together to provide 33 recommendations that balance the harms of misuse of technology with freedom of speech.
Date: Thursday January 28, 2021
Inclusive Innovation: Using Technology to Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide
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Canada must unlock the vast economic and human potential of small towns and rural communities by building the broadband infrastructure needed for citizens to prosper in an innovative, modern digital world.
Date: Wednesday January 9, 2019
Tom Chau: Bringing voice to the voiceless with technology
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...much excitement over the prospect of a direct brain-computer interface. The notion has attracted attention from sources like Neuralink, the neurotechnology company founded by Tesla’s Elon Musk, as well as...
Date: Tuesday May 22, 2018
Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit – Summary Report
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PPF hosted Ontario's first Digital Inclusion Summit back in February. Now, the summary report is available with key takeaways from the event that sparked a larger conversation on making the internet work for all.
Date: Tuesday May 29, 2018
Getting Canada Back on Track after COVID-19 with a Comprehensive Innovation Plan
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...sharing best practices and aligning approaches around such national priorities as digital technology and technology adoption by SMEs, or around start-ups and incubators, as was originally envisaged in the Plan....
Date: Wednesday February 23, 2022
The Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things in Canada
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...internet, communications and technology industry at $150 billion annually[5]. To compound the issue, using and generating insights from this firehose of data requires highly specialized talent that is in short...
Date: Friday December 16, 2016
Who’s threatening democracy? Tyrants, technology – and us
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Are we amusing ourselves to death while darker forces of disinformation undermine our democracy? By Edward Greenspon
Date: Tuesday May 1, 2018
Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Alternative Pathways
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Digital skills and digital careers are part of every industry’s future. Yet employers say they can't find workers with the information and communication technology (ICT) skills they need. In this report, Shortt, Robson and Sabat explain how Canada doesn't really have system for figuring out where digital technology jobs end and regular jobs begin – and explore how a shared definitions of digital skills and careers will be the gateway for policymakers and employers to fill any gaps.
Date: Thursday January 23, 2020