Neve Peric
Communications. Helping great Canadians do interesting things in innovation policy/international relations/Arctic/art
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The Huawei war
Open access // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2020)
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"It is necessary to look beyond the material infrastructure that underpins 5G to the intricate web of intellectual property rights that surrounds it. 5G is, above all, a *standard*. All networks and devices have to conform to its specifications."
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Europe is going after the internet’s business model. A new one is urgently needed
Regulators, lawmakers and campaigners want to fundamentally reshape the digital economy.
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Europe is going after the internet’s business model. A new one is urgently needed – POLITICO
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Tech CEOs call for prosperity strategy in letter to Trudeau - BNN Bloomberg
More than 130 Canadian tech leaders are calling on the prime minister to create a prosperity plan because they say the country won't excel without support for innovators and the government has been slow to offer help.
It’s time for nation building
Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister
Government of Canada
October 27, 2020
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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"The ability to make semiconductors for everything from artificial intelligence to smartphones has become a national security issue, and the U.S. election won’t change that."
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Google’s Guardians
An ecosystem of Google-funded academics, think tankers and hangers-on will fan out to defend the search giant from the Justice Department’s antitrust case.
An innovative economy requires an innovative government
The pandemic shook Ottawa out of business as usual. If we want to emerge from the pandemic stronger, we need to foster a culture of innovation in the federal government.
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"The tragedy is that Canada has one of the best invention engines in the world, but we still haven’t built the transmission that reliably converts those inventions into robust economic activity. "
Great piece by @colindeacon
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AI Research and Governance Are at a Crossroads
Traditional standard-setting processes cannot keep pace with the breathtaking speed of AI research and applications.
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WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
Canadian publishers call on Ottawa to force Big Tech to pay for news
A landmark News Media Canada report says companies such as Google and Facebook 'extract unfair terms from news publishers without offering fair compensation'
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"the nature of the data-driven economy is such that it structurally breaks markets because it features economies of both scale and scope, information asymmetries; and, network effects which subvert both public good and fair market competition."
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The Anti-Mask Revolution Was Organized on Facebook
Shortly after VICE News reached out about Canadian anti-masker groups, Facebook deleted several of them.
Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unions in comments for a documentary that premiered Wednesday, sparking cheers from gay Catholics and demands for...
Des millions pour un ex-député
La firme de l’ancien député libéral Frank Baylis profite des retombées d’un contrat de 237 millions$.
Google Abuses Its Monopoly Power Over Search, Justice Department Says In Lawsuit
The antitrust lawsuit against Google is the most significant action the federal government has taken against a technology company in two decades. Google calls the lawsuit "deeply flawed."
WSJ News Exclusive | Justice Department to File Long-Awaited Antitrust Suit Against Google
The lawsuit, which accuses the search giant of anticompetitive conduct, will mark the most aggressive U.S. legal challenge to a company’s dominance in the tech sector in more than two decades.
Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust.
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
More Than a Feeling — Real Life
Emotion detection doesn’t work, but it will try to change your behavior anyway