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Two European Sustainability Workshops now in Ontario and online: The Climate Fresk and The Digital Collage
Come and discover the Climate Fresk (Fresque du Climat) and the Digital Collage (Fresque du Numérique) in Toronto and Ontario! These Climate Change and Sustainable Digital Technology murals, as they could also be called, are two recent sustainability workshops out of Europe. The foundational, Climate Fresk workshop, allows everyone to simply and dynamically understand our Western economies’ detrimental impact on climate change in general . The Digital Collage is a complementary workshop to help prepare citizens and decision-makers for our transition to a technology and battery-fueled economy, away from fossil fuels.
Canada to Big Tech: Pay for News you Use! Pros and Cons of Bill C-18, the Online News Act of June 2023
Canada follows France and Australia, among other countries, in asking the likes of Meta (Facebook) and Google to pay publishers for the news excerpts they publish. Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez succeeded in passing bill C-18, aka the Online News Act this...
Complaints and Opposition to ChatGPT
Here's a regularly updated list of complaints, lawsuits and civil or government opposition to the ChatGPT AI tool, or " ChatTNT ", as I prefer to call it, for its destructive capabilities- alongside its useful ones, as always. Yoshua Bengio, one of the three AI...
The Dangers of the ChatGPT LLM for News
I asked ChatGPT, the AI Language Model ( "LLM") about the dangers it represented for news in March 2023, after this nuclear weapon was released without notice or protection by OpenAI at the end of 2022. So, here are some personal conclusions in response to ChatGPT's...
Reducing our Digital Carbon Footprint in March: Day of Unplugging and Digital Clean Up Day
Digital technology is often presented as an ally in the war against climate change, by allowing us to meet remotely via video or by avoiding printing paper documents. But is it really so virtuous? The emissions of gases that warm the atmosphere (Green House Gases CO2...
Main Authors
Caroline Isautier
From digital marketing to digital citizenship
Kate Tillezcek
Canada Research Chair on Youth
Hessie Jones
Venture Partner, Matr Ventures, privacy and marketing expert