Post Tagged with: "digital advocacy"

Critics Misjudged Power of Digital Advocacy

Appeared in the Toronto Star on January 18, 2009 as Critics Misjudged the Power of Digital Advocacy The new year is less than three weeks old, but the Canadian Internet story of 2010 may have already taken place. Ridiculed by political parties and analysts, the growth of the Canadians Against […]

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January 18, 2010 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Digital Advocacy Talk at Google UK

Earlier this year, I was invited to give a Policy Talks@Google talk at Google’s London, UK office.  That talk, which focused on digital advocacy, has now been posted online.

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August 6, 2008 1 comment News, Video

Digital Advocacy Comes to Parliament Hill

Last week, hundreds of Canadians descended on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for a public rally in support of net neutrality, a contentious issue that focuses on the need for Internet service providers (ISPs) to treat all content and applications in an equal, non-discriminatory manner.  The event succeeded in attracting politicians from two major political parties, labour leaders, independent ISPs, and individuals concerned with the Internet in Canada.  My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, Vancouver Sun version, homepage version) notes that while it is tempting to view the rally as an anomaly, it is more accurately seen as just the latest in a series of advocacy actions around the world that illustrate both how digital issues are rapidly moving into the policy mainstream and how the Internet can be used to mobilize offline advocacy.

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June 3, 2008 4 comments Columns

Digital Advocacy Comes to Parliament Hill

Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 2, 2008 as Internet Matures as Tool For Political Advocacy Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on June 3, 2008 as Facebook Helps Digital Advocates Hook Up on Parliament Hill Appeared in the Vancouver Sun on June 3, 2008 as Digital Advocacy Comes to […]

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June 3, 2008 1 comment Columns Archive

Digital Advocacy Talk at Mesh

While there are great liveblogs and media coverage of my talk on digital advocacy at the Mesh Conference, I've posted a synced version of the presentation and an MP3 recording of the talk.  The talk owes a lot to Ethan Zuckerman's exceptional presentation on the same subject at the ETech […]

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May 23, 2008 4 comments News