Huge efforts are under way by national governments to safeguard the physical and virtual security of their citizenry, but there remains a weakness at the heart of society: the frailty of the individual. In this essay, Michael Goodman and Filippa Lentzos consider how governments can prepare their citizens to sort through misinformation during a pandemic.
The government’s national security response apparatus has been too narrowly defined to defend against and respond to modern threats. As Neil Desai writes, the definition of security has not evolved at the same pace as the threat environment facing Canada's security.
"The organisation has been directionless for some time, several years in fact, and will now be functionally leaderless."
Read CIGI President Rohinton P. Medhora's comments on theWorld Trade Organization, which, as of Monday, is operating without former Diector-General Roberto Azevêdo.
In this episode of Big Tech, co-hosts David Skok and Taylor Owen discuss how our understanding of big tech and its impact on society has shifted over the past year. Among these changes is the public's greater awareness of the need for regulation in this sector.
With nearly half of Earth's population currently without access to broadband internet, the potential market for space-based internet is huge. Eytan Tepper and Jean-Frédéric Morin explore the fast-moving satellite internet industry and the challenges it presents for policy makers.
As the world embarks on an intense effort to explain the onset of the pandemic, we must reconsider the role security and intelligence institutions play in protecting societies against pandemics. This essay series — designed to bridge academic and practitioner knowledge — aims to make a high-impact contribution to that discussion.
Sep. 21 – 12:00 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Join CIGI and the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting for a virtual panel event on the challenge of regulating digital platforms without compromising free expression.
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