Search Results for: Disruption
Drew Fagan
Person
Read his latest The Dis-United States Getting ahead of disruption is key to our future: An introduction to Canada Next Canada’s Complicated Tango with the U.S. Drew Fagan is a...
Date: Sunday February 12, 2017
Job Posting: Vice-President of Policy
Article
...disruption The changing nature of work Indigenous growth and governance A primary task of the Vice-President of Policy is to coordinate the policy and engagement activities of the Forum staff in...
Date: Thursday March 22, 2018
Glen Hodgson
Person
...Mail. Glen develops and undertakes research on global, U.S., Canadian and provincial economic performance; globalization, trade and disruption; managing catastrophic risk; the emerging low-carbon economy; fiscal and tax policy; productivity...
Date: Thursday January 12, 2017
Brave New Work Newsletter #3
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In the third edition of our Brave New Work Newsletter: Five things we learned at our Brave New Work Conference, our latest report on the correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views, and a new blog post on why 'robots will replace us' thinking is not that simple - or that scary!
Date: Friday August 16, 2019
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
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Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
‘Band-Aid solution’: Ottawa sets aside $50 million to support local journalism
News
National Post Ottawa has set aside $50 million over the next five years to support local news organizations in “underserved” communities, struggling to cope with industry-wide disruption brought on by...
Date: Wednesday February 28, 2018
The Risk of the Digital Status Quo
Publication
Digital transformation can be risky — but the status quo is riskier. Drawing on insights of CIOs and senior public servants, this report identifies strategies for dealing with the risks of not embracing digital technology for public services, including: legacy systems costs, cyber security, culture and people, and service failure.
Date: Thursday October 17, 2019
A New North Star II Revisited
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Six months after the release of New North Star II, the case for a mission-driven economic strategy is even more relevant. The pandemic has highlighted the need for a new industrial strategy to cultivate domestic innovations and technologies in Canada's national interests and authors Robert Asselin and Sean Speer revisit their analysis and recommendations and find a compelling model in the US’s DARPA model.
Date: Thursday September 17, 2020
Commitment to lifelong learning is win-win for manufacturing company AVIT and its employees
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A people-centric approach at AVIT Manufacturing in Peterborough, Ont. means that employees are continuously offered opportunities to upgrade their skills and learn new ones. AVIT provides a prime example showing that encouraging lifelong learning in workplaces is an asset. Read this case study by Daniel Squizzato on navigating precarity on managing transformation in disrupted sectors – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 17, 2021
As a means of reskilling Canada’s workforce, are microcredentials a boon—or just hype?
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Microcredentials are emerging as a popular method for upskilling, but their lack of standardization, among other concerns, may impact whether or not these programs are here to stay. Read this case study by Rosanna Tamburri on education innovation – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
The Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things in Canada
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...such as health care, where disruption of health monitoring or machine-to-machine communication can translate into physical danger. Security compromise in other contexts, like vehicles, water treatment plants or utilities also...
Date: Friday December 16, 2016
Discussion paper: Open policy making in a digital age
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...digital area: organizations, policies, regulations, legislation; public sector accountability, values and anonymity in a hyper-networked world; and Digitally driven or enabled trends on society and economy: industry disruption, precarious employment,...
Date: Wednesday April 12, 2017
Automation, AI and COVID-19
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A majority of Canadians indicate they have at least a basic understanding of AI and automation. Politicians have an opportunity to seize upon this perceived knowledge to address coming challenges by linking COVID-19 solutions to challenges — and potentially positives — presented by AI and automation. This new report by Peter Loewen and Blake Lee-Whiting shows signs that Canada has not seen a large populist backlash to the pandemic, but that could be coming, perhaps against immigration policies, if citizens feel the government is not following through on job creation.
Date: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Business as Unusual
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In a message to the PPF community, our President & CEO Edward Greenspon addresses how PPF is re-calibrating and conceiving of new forms of digital engagement.
Date: Tuesday March 17, 2020
Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
Publication
Democracy has been made vulnerable to attack by hate speech and disinformation on digital and social platforms. Policy must be implemented to reconcile freedom of speech and freedom of the press with these online news threats to democracy.
Date: Wednesday August 15, 2018