Existential Gap: Digital/AI Acceleration and the Missing Global Governance Capacity
Faculty Associate Yves Tiberghien, MPPGA student Panthea Pourmalek, and Danielle Luo co-authored this paper discussing the growing gap between disruptive technology and the human capacity to manage it.
What Can Canadian Law Makers Draw from the New UK Online Safety Bill?
In an op-ed for CIGI regarding what Canadian lawmakers can learn from the U.K.’s new Online Safety Bill, Professor Heidi Tworek (SPPGA; History) believes that transparency reports and their metrics should not create perverse incentives to silence the very communities whom the legislation is designed to help.
Does Deplatforming Trump Set a New Precedent for Content Moderation?
There is a problem of focusing on the U.S. in platform governance, Professor Heidi Tworek (SPPGA; History) warns. The difference in response to the U.S. and Myanmar Rohingya genocide shows the platform’s inconsistent principles, she adds.
Professor Heidi Tworek Speaks in “Platforms for Harm?”
With the advent of user-generated content in the early 2000s, governments have struggled with holding online platforms accountable for their role for perpetuating social harm while upholding free expression. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) invited Professor Heidi Tworek (SPPGA & UBC Department of History) to the discussion.