There is already evidence of identity information being used to target populations in the Tigray conflict. Imagine the implications of a national ID scheme built on an immutable ledger, driven by commercial incentives and operated from offshore.
The inability to describe an emotion is known as alexithymia, a term coined by Peter Sifneos in the early 1970s. Although the term generally describes a disorder, it accurately expressed my predicament, and that of many others confronted by the current cascade of coronavirus disease, climate change and concurrent catastrophes.
Watchdogs have warned that social media companies’ lack of content moderators fluent in local dialects makes it impossible to effectively police extremist content and disinformation in Africa, even if the platforms wanted to do this. And these problems extend to all the dimensions of disinformation — be it hate speech, voter manipulation or incitement to violence for political gain.
Frances Haugen is likely right to hope that European parliamentarians will be more effective in forcing changes on the platforms than their American counterparts. Europe is home to the most powerful and effective regulatory states, and the need for regulations to reduce harms is not subject to the same partisan conflict as in the United States.
There is much to be learned from people who’ve worked to produce propaganda. Their insights can provide unique details on how, for instance, the strategies and technologies used in coordinated disinformation campaigns can be mitigated via inoculation and resilience programming.
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Autonomous systems are revolutionizing our lives, but they present clear international security concerns. Despite the risks, emerging technologies are increasingly applied as tools for cybersecurity and, in some cases, cyberwarfare. In this series, experts explore digital threats to democracy and security, and the geopolitical tensions they create.
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. Critical to an understanding of these issues is a clear-sighted appreciation of the interface between health security and national security. As the world embarks on an intense effort to explain the onset of the pandemic and to learn lessons from the global response, it will be vital to develop and sustain a public policy debate about the role of security and intelligence institutions in protecting societies against pandemic outbreaks. This essay series — designed to bridge academic and practitioner knowledge — aims to make a high-impact contribution to that debate.
We are in the midst of fighting the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis, but it is already clear that the impacts will be manifold and enduring. It is not too early to reflect on the lasting impact that the outbreak is sure to have on global cooperation, globalization, faith in public action and in science, social cohesion, and the trade-off between civil liberties and personal privacy.
An essay series on the World Trade Organization's response to rapid economic, political, social, technological and environmental change.
Despite growing calls for global platform governance, no solution has been found. To begin to address this, CIGI has convened leading thinkers to explore new models for governing digital platforms. Given their unprecedented influence on democracy and the global economy alike, a cohesive framework for platform governance is crucial.
The 2017 Buenos Aires Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment emphasized the key relationship between trade policy and gender, and World Trade Organization members are beginning to take steps to improve transparency, share best practices, gather data and include gender considerations in trade negotiations. But there is much more to be done.
On one hand, technology has led to convenience, efficiency and wealth creation. On the other hand, this great push to digitize society has meant building inherent vulnerability into the core of the economic model. This is all taking place atop a deeply fragmented and underdeveloped system of global rules.
Indigenous lands are under ever-increasing pressure from governments and extractive sector corporations that are eager to encourage economic development and foreign investment.
At the December 2017 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires, 118 WTO members joined forces to conclude the Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment.
In this series, international law experts from Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, comment on Brexit’s international and domestic law and governance implications.