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Climate justice, media and technology

  • 15 Dec 2022
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Webinar

The DIGITAL POLICY ROUNDS monthly series brings together broadly defined researchers, policy-makers and civil society voices to discuss interdisciplinary topics at the intersection of media, technology and democracy. Our objective is to expand beyond narrowly-defined "evidence-based" frameworks of policymaking to instead question what counts as evidence, and whose voices are included and amplified in public and policy debates about digital democracy.

SCHEDULE

  1. November 17th, Noon - 1pm ET: Polarization and radicalization
  2. December 15th, Noon - 1pm ET: Climate justice, media and technology
  3. January 19th, Noon - 1pm ET: Health communications
  4. February 16th, Noon - 1pm ET: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
  5. March 16th, Noon - 1pm ET: Mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity

HOST

Supriya Dwivedi is the Director of Policy & Engagement at McGill's Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy. She became personally invested in combating misinformation and disinformation through her experience as the host of a morning show on a Toronto talk radio station. Mis and disinformation regularly found its way onto the airwaves, and it directly contributed to the volume and level of vitriolic threats Supriya received. After a particularly vile threat that targeted her daughter, Supriya resigned.Supriya also has extensive experience in government relations and public affairs, where her work has largely focused on providing strategic counsel to both international and Canadian clients on public affairs campaigns at all levels of government, maintaining and building stakeholder relationships, and assessing the policy implications of legislation within the Canadian regulatory framework.Supriya has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from McGill University, as well as civil law (LL.B.) and common law (J.D.) degrees from Université de Montréal. She is a highly sought-after media commentator, appearing weekly on CBC’s “Power & Politics” and writing regularly for The Toronto Star and The National Observer.When she’s not busy with work, Supriya enjoys quoting random lines from The Simpsons (seasons 3-8), almost always out of context. You can follow her on Twitter @supriyadwivedi.


December 15 - CLIMATE JUSTICE, MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY

While governments around the world are beginning to address the need for democratic governance of our digital systems, climate remains largely siloed from public and policy debates about digital technology. Many of the most polluting technologies, including so-called “Green AI” are offered back to us as “sustainable” tech solutions to the climate crisis.

Policymakers around the world are struggling to assess the environmental costs of digital technology without meaningful transparency and accountability mechanisms for greenwashing, climate obstruction and disinformation that continue to impede climate action around the world. While the market concentration of “Big Tech” has come under mounting public and state scrutiny, the same handful of companies are quietly extending their monopoly over land, water, and other natural resources.

This event aims to bring tech researchers, digital policy experts, Indigenous scholars and civil society advocates to discuss the intersection of environmental and digital policy, the need for justice-oriented policy frameworks, and what the digital rights and climate justice movements can learn from each other more broadly.

  • Michael Khoo, Climate Disinformation Co-chair at Friends of the Earth & Co-CEO, UpShiftStrategies



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