Join All Tech Is Human and McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy for Participatory Democracy to Govern Big Tech: The Canadian Experience 🇨🇦
📍 Consulate General of Canada in New York, 466 Lexington Ave, 20th Floor
🗓️ Thursday, Sept. 14
🕤 9:00 AM
All Tech Is Human is proud to partner with McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy and the Consulate General of Canada in New York to present Participatory Democracy to Govern Big Tech: The Canadian Experience, on Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
Participatory Democracy to Govern Big Tech: The Canadian Experience is an intimate curated gathering designed to showcase the Canadian experience in developing legislation to tackle online harms, featuring first-hand testimony and expert accounts of policy processes including the Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, the Canadian Commission for Democratic Expression, and Citizens’ Assemblies.
The world-class speaker panel will feature…
Emily Laidlaw: Member of the Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
Peter MacLeod: Co-founder and Principal of MASS LBP
Raagini Sharma: Youth Citizens’ Assembly representative
Dawn Sugimoto: Citizens’ Assembly representative
Frances Haugen: Senior Fellow-in-Residence at the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
Moderated by: Taylor Owen Founding Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy and Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and Associate Professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University
This experience is part of All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Week NYC. Responsible Tech Week NYC is a first-of-its-kind week dedicated to bringing together and empowering the Responsible Tech Movement. Led by All Tech Is Human, a 501c3 designed to tackle wicked tech and society issues, Responsible Tech Week will highlight the incredible people, organizations, and initiatives responsible for co-creating a better tech future through a series of gatherings and gatherings designed to empower all sectors.
A better tech future is possible when we bring together a wide variety of disciplines and stakeholders across academia, civil society, industry, and government – which is why no matter who you are we invite you to join us live for Responsible Tech Week!
This experience is invite-only. Interested in attending? Fill out the interest form below!