Search Results for: Technology
Pathways to Sustainable Access to Innovative Medicines for Canadians
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This report is the culmination of a project that engaged Canadians in roundtable discussions about access barriers, the role of real-world evidence in system improvement, and how to move the healthcare system forward. Participants’ recommendations on reducing barriers to access, strengthening data and evidence and finding balance in our healthcare system.
Date: Friday April 20, 2018
Frontiers and Borders: The Internet and the Amplification of Illiberalism
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"Truth is an inescapable foundation of the liberal order and is in a precarious state in today’s liberal democracy. Our ability to address difficult issues such as climate change or electoral integrity is compromised if truth and public opinion become confused.” Edward Greenspon’s recent essay examines liberalism’s complex state of flux in an age of internet dominance. Greenspon draws on his firsthand experiences as a journalist covering the ascent of liberalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using it as a jump-off point for considering the ongoing struggle between the frontiers of change and social progress versus the borders of insecurity and social stability.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
Governance in the Digital Age
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The digital transformation that governments are seeking and citizens are expecting is more than just 'a challenge,' says PPF's Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Kent Aitken in this new report. After conducting almost 300 interviews over the course of a year, he concludes that governments are currently not set up for the complexities of the digital age and suggests four areas that they need to fundamentally change.
Date: Wednesday September 26, 2018
Solving for Shortages in Nova Scotia: Employer Experiences and the Labour Market Across Atlantic Provinces
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Employers across Atlantic Canada are facing skills shortages and are turning to newcomers to fill job vacancies. Yet retention in the region remains a problem, and many immigrants who relocate elsewhere in Canada report employment as a leading cause for their decision to move away. A consultation with local business leaders, business council representatives, educators and immigrant workers provided insights into challenges and policy opportunities.
Date: Thursday November 26, 2020
Why Canada needs a digital office
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Bringing tech into the heart of government By Kent Aitken, Prime Ministers Fellow, Public Policy Forum. @kentdaitken Governments are struggling with technology — but there’s hope yet. The thing about...
Date: Friday May 12, 2017
Science and Health Misinformation in the Digital Age
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Following PPF's 2020 report, Science Disinformation in a Time of Pandemic, PPF renews the project to continue the conversation with 2021's new initiative, Responding to Science Disinformation. In this report, fellow Peter Loewen and Eric Merkley consider the ways in which technology has impacted the spread of misinformation throughout the public, and how and in what ways policy makers can challenge misinformation without stifling free speech and freedom of expression.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
Frontiers and Borders:
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...of science and technology, a free press, and diverse points of view. The people of the frontier revel in a never-ending symphony of inquiry, knowing truth can only be approached,...
Date: Friday June 18, 2021
The Risk of the Digital Status Quo
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Digital transformation can be risky — but the status quo is riskier. Drawing on insights of CIOs and senior public servants, this report identifies strategies for dealing with the risks of not embracing digital technology for public services, including: legacy systems costs, cyber security, culture and people, and service failure.
Date: Thursday October 17, 2019
Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
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Democracy has been made vulnerable to attack by hate speech and disinformation on digital and social platforms. Policy must be implemented to reconcile freedom of speech and freedom of the press with these online news threats to democracy.
Date: Wednesday August 15, 2018
The Mother of Invention: Skills for Innovation in the Post-Pandemic World
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many workplaces to innovate rapidly in order to simply survive. But innovation is a critical component of our economic prosperity even during normal times. To be successful, Canada’s skills strategies must address skills for innovation across sectors — from solo entrepreneurs, to small and medium-sized businesses, to large corporations and even within government itself. While Canada has made significant efforts to foster a strong innovation economy, the pandemic has helped to reveal where these efforts have created strong foundations for success as well as areas where much remains to be done.
Date: Wednesday June 9, 2021
Future Proof: Connecting Post-Pandemic Canada
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What public policy measures are needed to ensure that Canada’s digital connectivity infrastructure fully supports an inclusive, competitive post-pandemic economy?
Date: Monday October 4, 2021
Power Plays
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...size means we are largely technology takers, but there are some areas where we could influence the development of net zero technology on a larger scale.”[27] Small modular reactors are...
Date: Monday February 26, 2024
An ‘International Space Station for Work’: The Case for a Global, Open Platform for Training and Employment
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As permanent employment declines, workers switch jobs more often, and training programs fail to adapt, the world needs an open platform for employment and training. A global effort, like the one that built the International Space Station in the 1990s, could provide the funding and critical mass of data needed—and Canada could lead it.
Date: Monday January 14, 2019
Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online
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The rise of harmful speech online is a threat to Canada’s democracy. This report outlines how governments and digital platform companies can better address hate and harassment, including the creation of a Moderation Standards Council.
Date: Thursday November 8, 2018
Flipping the Script: Alberta Health Services’ online assessment tool becomes the core of the province’s COVID response
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Little did Alberta Health Services' Digital Experience team know this moment would shift the province’s whole pandemic strategy, and become the core of Alberta’s COVID response. Their assessment tool with online booking and results would get attention from across North America, and spark a form of collaboration that would cast lasting doubt on the way things have always been done.
Date: Monday October 26, 2020