Centre for International Governance Innovation: “Data is being hailed as “the new oil.” The analogy seems appropriate given the growing amount of data being collected, and the advances made in its gathering, storage, manipulation and use for commercial, social and political purposes.
Big data and its application in artificial intelligence, for example, promises to transform the way we live and work — and will generate considerable wealth in the process. But data’s transformative nature also raises important questions around how the benefits are shared, privacy, public security, openness and democracy, and the institutions that will govern the data revolution.
The delicate interplay between these considerations means that they have to be treated jointly, and at every level of the governance process, from local communities to the international arena. This series of essays by leading scholars and practitioners, which is also published as a special report, will explore topics including the rationale for a data strategy, the role of a data strategy for Canadian industries, and policy considerations for domestic and international data governance…
RATIONALE OF A DATA STRATEGY
- Considerations for Canada’s National Data Strategy
- The Economics of Data: Implications for the Data-driven Economy
- The Government’s Role in Constructing the Data-driven Economy
- Canadian Network Sovereignty: A Strategy for Twenty-First-Century National Infrastructure Building
- VIDEO: Considerations for Canada’s National Data Strategy
- VIDEO: Canada Needs a National Data Strategy
- VIDEO: The Economics of Data: Implications for the Data-driven Economy
THE ROLE OF A DATA STRATEGY FOR CANADIAN INDUSTRIES
- Treasure of the Commons: Global Leadership through Health Data
- Monetizing Smart Cities: Framing the Debate
- Big Data: The Canadian Opportunity
- VIDEO: Treasure of the Commons: Global Leadership Through Health Data
- VIDEO: Big Data: The Canadian Opportunity
BALANCING PRIVACY AND COMMERCIAL VALUES
- Preventing Big Data Discrimination in Canada: Addressing Design, Consent and Sovereignty Challenges
- Data and the Future of Growth: The Need for Strategic Data Policy
- Crypto Agility Is a Must-Have for Data Encryption Standards
DOMESTIC POLICY FOR DATA GOVERNANCE
- Ungoverned Space: How Surveillance Capitalism and AI Undermine Democracy
- Governance Vacuums and How Code Is Becoming Law
- Measuring the Economy in an Increasingly Digitalized World: Are Statistics Up to the Task?
- VIDEO: Governance Vacuums and How Code Is Becoming Law
- VIDEO: How Surveillance Capitalism Undermines Democracy
INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
- Data Libera? Canada’s Data Strategy and the Law of the Sea
- Data Rules in Modern Trade Agreements: Toward Reconciling an Open Internet with Privacy and Security Safeguards
- Data Minefield? How AI Is Prodding Governments to Rethink Trade in Data
- VIDEO: Data Rules in Modern Trade Agreements
- Screen Time, the Brain, Privacy and Mental Health
EPILOGUE