Open access // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2020)
Neve Peric"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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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.
Neve PericTech CEOs call for prosperity strategy in letter to Trudeau - BNN
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Neve Peric"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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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.
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.
Neve Peric"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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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.
A landmark News Media Canada report says companies such as Google and Facebook 'extract unfair terms from news publishers without offering fair compensation'
Neve Peric"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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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...
Neve PericFrancis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions
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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."
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.