How Tech Lost Its Way

In the first episode of Big Tech, co-hosts David Skok and Taylor Owen speak with Rana Foroohar, a global business columnist at the Financial Times and economic analyst for CNN, about the cognitive, economic and political impacts that big tech companies are having on our societies and economies.

Kate Klonick, an affiliate fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, was the lone researcher invited to observe Facebook’s process for creating a content moderation oversight board. In episode two of Big Tech, she talks about what she witnessed during this process.

Rohinton P. Medhora discusses opportunities for collaboration between Canada and India. He argues that the two countries have a lot to gain by working together on a wide range of issues, from trade to data governance to the Group of Twenty.

Young people aged 15 to 35 comprise one-third of the world’s population yet they are largely absent from decision-making fora and, as such, are unaccounted for in policy making, programming and laws. Bushra Ebadi argues that the international refugee system needs to be reformed in order to meaningfully engage youth.

Nov. 27 – 7:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00) – Waterloo, Canada: This panel discussion will explore the diverse challenges related to tackling human trafficking and discuss how technology might help address the problem.

Dec. 4 – 12:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00) – Waterloo, Canada: In this lunchtime talk, Bob Fay will discuss the broader need for platform governance and what such a framework might look like, as well as CIGI's efforts on this front in a global context.