Jun. 15 – 10:30 a.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Next week, CIGI’s Robert Fay will be welcoming six experts to this public panel discussion, part of the Think20 Spring Round Tables, on the challenging but essential task of building trust to fully harness the benefits of digital technologies. Learn more about the speakers and register now for this virtual event, co-hosted by CIGI and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies.
Bill C-10, the proposed legislation to amend the Broadcasting Act, is an attempt by the Canadian government to bring internet-based audiovisual media services under democratic oversight, but its scope is ill-defined. Given the core flaws that the debate over Bill C-10 has identified, Dwayne Winseck argues, this much is clear: Canada should drop the bill and start over.
Our fascination with the capacities of artificial intelligence (AI) often distracts us from AI’s rapacious consumption of physical and human resources — ghost workers, rare metals and the energy required to power billions of computers, for example. Taylor Owen considers how scholar Kate Crawford’s research into AI as an extractive industry provides a map for both understanding and governing this technology.
On June 5, CIGI President Rohinton P. Medhora took part in a virtual dialogue during the Trento Festival of Economics, along with fellow members of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (an initiative undertaken by the Institute for New Economic Thinking with support from CIGI). Robert Johnson, Jayati Ghosh, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Rohinton discussed the topic “Nobody is safe if someone is unsafe.” Their conversation followed on the March release of the Commission’s interim report, The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action.
You can watch a recording of Saturday’s event here.
Jun. 24 – 9:30 a.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Non-consensual intimate image distribution, often referred to as “revenge pornography” or “image-based sexual abuse,” is an unforgiving reality that plagues the lives of many within today’s digital landscape. Moderator Ruhiya Seward will be joined by experts Grace Mutung’u, Michelle Bordachar and Nonhlanhla Chanza to speak about this issue as it pertains to Kenya, Chile and South Africa, respectively.
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