Digital communications
Report
Mapping the digital gap: Wadeye, NT community outcomes report 2022
Based on 75 surveys and 14 interviews with residents and stakeholders, this report outlines the findings from an initial visit to Wadeye - a large coastal community in the West Daly region of Northern Territory. It highlights the current access and use of media, communications and online services, and the digital inclusion challenges in Wadeye...
Report
Supporting safer digital spaces
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.
Report
And now, the news: a national news media policy for Canada
The purpose of this paper is to frame a national consultation and to offer foundational policies for a national news industrial strategy. The authors argue that Canada needs a national news policy. Such a policy must, at all costs, avoid a direct funding connection between the government and newsmakers or news intermediaries.
Report
Digital Threats to Democracy Dialogue: summary report
The Digital Threats to Democracy (DTD) Dialogue was a day-long, closed-door session that brought together a distinguished group of diverse subject matter experts, government officials and civil society stakeholders to examine intersecting digital challenges to democracy. This report consolidates and summarises the key points of the presentations, discussions and recommendations for consideration that arose from...
Briefing paper
Can the consent model improve the digital world, especially for young people?
This briefing paper emerges from an expert roundtable discussion about the capacity of the consent model to improve the digital world. It was prompted by discussions emerging from the Privacy Act Review, and international policy moves towards using ‘consent mechanisms’ to deny young people’s access to social media.