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Why Canada needs a new social contract for the digital economy
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
When Canada evolved from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, we developed a new social contract for the times — public education, a social safety net, securities legislation, laws about pollution, crime, traffic, workplace safety and countless non-governmental civil society organizations arose to help solve problems. It is time to update these agreements, create new institutions and renew the expectations and responsibilities that citizens should have about society.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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A new reason to support the CBC [diversity]
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Jul 30 2011
…we’ve gone from mass media to… “molecular media.” …increasingly any Canadian can be awash in any particular narrow point of view. They can listen to, read or watch the views they support or hold. That means there is a real danger of balkanizing our society — we all may end up in self-reinforcing echo-chambers where all we hear is our own point of view… There is still a role for great broadcasting. CBC/Radio-Canada… gives essential support to Canadian content and the independent production sector that creates it. The result is diverse voices in the media landscape…
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation
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Digital technology can bring democracy to life
Monday, May 16th, 2011
May 16 2011
Governments need more than our votes — they need our knowledge and our efforts. Governments must create opportunities for sustained dialogue between voters and public officials. To be clear, this is not some kind of direct democracy, where citizens would vote online every night after the evening news. That would be tantamount to a digital mob. Nor is this just a means to determine voter sentiment. Opinion polls already do a good job at that. Instead, we need ways to allow citizens to contribute ideas to the decision-making process — to get them engaged in public life.
Tags: ideology, participation
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A new kind of revolution
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Feb. 10, 2011
Internet innovations such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter radically lower the cost and effort of collaboration. Social media are a game changer because they greatly facilitate citizens’ ability to organize despite censorship. They speed up the metabolism of dissatisfaction, enabling peers to come together to produce leaderless but nevertheless powerful movements for change… Could the first revolution born through peer collaboration lead to a new kind of collaborative government that engages its citizens in co-creating public value, democracy and social justice?
Tags: ideology, participation
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