Pay-for-data arrangements promise to reduce exploitation and encourage firms to be more selective about the data they gather. Daniel Munro argues that we should consider the possibility that being paid for data undermines, rather than enhances, human dignity by further commodifying our lives.
Diplomacy has lagged well behind the pace of militarization of cyber space in recent years. Paul Meyer breaks down ongoing UN efforts to establish norms for responsible state behaviour in cyberspace.
Alan Greenspan, who ran the Fed from mid-1987 to early 2006, is remembered for how his policies contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. However, according to Kevin Carmichael, countries facing low-interest-rate, high-debt predicaments should look to policies adopted by the former Fed chair in the 1990s.
The #M4PG Twitter chat prompted some great conversation about platform governance last week. Take a look back at some of the insightful contributions. CIGI was also in Ottawa last week for a climate change policy workshop with public service executives. Check out reflections on the session from Aaron Shull and Leah Lawrence.
An analysis of newspaper coverage reveals that the media is focused more on the short-term impacts of hazards than on the policy problems that underpin flood risk. Jason Thistlethwaite and Daniel Henstra discuss how better media coverage could contribute to more effective risk reduction policies.
This special report weighs international law frameworks for governing marine geoengineering. The authors say a new international agreement could fill key gaps in the existing patchwork of international law, but it is important that this new treaty be structured in a way that does not hinder responsible research and development of marine geoengineering in high-seas areas.
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.
Jan. 21 – 7:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00) – Waterloo, Canada: This film follows the research of an international body of scientists who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
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