The objective of this research was to create policy and legal recommendations to better protect vulnerable and marginalised populations, in particular women and LGBTQ+ people, from identity-based online harms.

Freedom of the press is facing growing restrictions from technology policies that censor the media under the guise of protecting privacy, including the misuse of regulations developed in the Global North that are detrimental to media outlets in the Global South. This paper offers solutions to protect news media from the silencing efforts of powerful...

The central purpose of this paper is to examine publicly funded university research in Canada - in terms of outcomes - namely, intellectual property (IP) as indicated by patent data, the resultant ownership of the IP generated, and the implications for impact on freedom to operate, a measure of Canadian firms’ ability to commercialise their...

The world is rife with 'wicked' problems — problems that no one knows how to solve without creating further problems. The author of this paper proposes a new international organisation, the Wicked Problems Agency, to catalyse both data sharing and data analysis in the interest of mitigating wicked problems.

In January 2023, international and Canadian experts attended a virtual workshop to explore implications of digital data for markets and rethink the policy frameworks underlying those markets. This report presents the key takeaways from their discussion.