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World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of an “infodemic” in February 2020. (Fabrice Coffrini/REUTERS)
Platform Governance
How a Public Health Approach Could Help Curb the Infodemic
Much like a virus, social media content can only really be understood as part of a broader ecosystem.
  • Heidi Tworek
October 15, 2020
Intellectual Property
An International Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Strategy for Canada
  • Jeremy de Beer
October 15, 2020
Democracy
Emerging Technology
Intellectual Property
VIDEO: COVID-19 Underscores the Need for Global Cooperation
  • Rohinton P. Medhora
  • Bessma Momani
  • E. Richard Gold
  • and more
September 15, 2020
  WATCH
Platform Governance
The Rise of Platform Bans — and Why They Don’t Work
  • Jesse Hirsh
October 8, 2020
Human Rights
Trade
Corporate Citizen: New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law
October 6, 2020
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A nightclub security guard scans a QR code for a pre-filled registration form during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Reuters/Dom Smaz)
Big Data
Emerging Technology
COVID-19 Lessons: Building Disaster-Ready Technologies
  • Sean McDonald
October 12, 2020
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Democracy
Platform Governance
Should Big Tech Be Setting the Terms of Political Speech?
  • Samantha Bradshaw
  • evelyn douek
  • Dipayan Ghosh
  • and more
October 5, 2020
(Reuters/Sergio Perez)
Big Data
Innovation Economy
Now More than Ever, the World Needs Data Stewards
  • Anil Arora
  • Rohinton P. Medhora
October 1, 2020

Publications

Intellectual Property
An International Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Strategy for Canada
  • Jeremy de Beer
October 15, 2020
Human Rights
Trade
Corporate Citizen: New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law
  • Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
October 6, 2020
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Big Data
Standards
Helping Organizations Master Data Governance
  • Michel Girard
August 27, 2020
Big Data
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Data Standards Task Force for Digital Cooperation
  • Michel Girard
August 11, 2020
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Modernizing the World Trade Organization
  • Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
  • Mira Burri
  • Chios Carmody
  • and more
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Platform Governance
Data Governance in the Digital Age
  • Rohinton P. Medhora
  • Susan Ariel Aaronson
  • Sachin Aggarwal
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Global Cooperation after COVID-19
  • Rohinton P. Medhora
  • Darrell Bricker
  • Michael Chertoff
  • and more
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Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System
  • Paul Blustein
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Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis
  • Ralph Goodale
  • Aaron Shull
  • Wesley Wark
  • and more
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Surveillance & Privacy
Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust
  • Aaron Shull
  • Andre Boysen
  • Bill Munson
  • and more
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Models for Platform Governance
  • Taylor Owen
  • Pierre François Docquir
  • Joan Donovan
  • and more
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Trade
Reshaping Trade through Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
  • Anastassia Beliakova
  • Arancha González
  • and more
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UNDRIP Implementation: More Reflections on the Braiding of International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws
  • Aimée Craft
  • Brenda L. Gunn
  • Cheryl Knockwood
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Conflict Management
Platform Governance
Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
  • Allan Thompson

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Surveillance & Privacy
VIDEO: Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis
The impact of COVID-19 both globally and in Canada has raised important questions about best practices with regard to global and domestic health surveillance, early warning and preparedness.
  • Aaron Shull
  • Wesley Wark
August 24, 2020
Democracy
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VIDEO: COVID-19 Underscores the Need for Global Cooperation
  • Rohinton P. Medhora
  • Bessma Momani
  • E. Richard Gold
  • and more
September 15, 2020
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Corporate Citizen, a New Book about the Corporation’s Role in the Global Economy
  • Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
September 17, 2020
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Technology Theatre
  • Sean McDonald
July 13, 2020
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Ellen Jorgensen on Biotech’s Potential and the Complexities of Regulation
  • Ellen Jorgensen
August 13, 2020
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Damian Collins on Joining Forces to Regulate Big Tech
  • Damian Collins
July 30, 2020
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Events

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Journalism in the Time of Crisis: At the Intersection of Journalism and the Pandemic
Oct 22, 2020 - 8:45 AM
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Oct
22
Surveillance & Privacy
How to Immunize Global Security from Re-Infection: How COVID-19 will Transform the Global Security System and Impacts for Canada
Oct 22, 2020 - 9:30 AM
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22
Platform Governance
Global Platform Governance Network Meeting - October 2020
Oct 27, 2020 - 8:00 AM
PRIVATE
Oct
27

Experts

Heidi Tworek.
Heidi Tworek
Senior Fellow

Heidi Tworek is a CIGI senior fellow and an expert on platform governance, the history of media technologies, and health communications. She is an associate professor of public policy and international history at the University of British Columbia.

Latest Activity
Platform Governance
How a Public Health Approach Could Help Curb the Infodemic
  • Heidi Tworek
October 15, 2020
Robert Gorwa.
Robert Gorwa
Fellow

Robert Gorwa is a CIGI fellow. He focuses on the politics of platform governance, the regulation of large technology multinationals, and the theory and practice of contemporary content moderation.

Latest Activity
Platform Governance
As Platforms Rely Less on Human Content Moderators, What's at Stake?
  • Robert Gorwa
March 31, 2020
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Paul Vallée
Senior Fellow

Paul Vallée is a CIGI senior fellow and the founder and CEO of Tehama.

Latest Activity
Cybersecurity
Platform Governance
Surveillance & Privacy
Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust
  • Aaron Shull
  • Andre Boysen
  • Bill Munson
  • and more
May 27, 2019
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