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Foundations of Digital Sovereignty: Chapter 6
If Canada is serious about increasing our sovereign cloud capacity, government procurement is by far the most powerful tool at our disposal.
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If we want real governance, the best way to get there is by steering procurement towards companies that are not vulnerable to extraterritorial access, and adhere to Canadian standards.
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In Chapter 6, we lay out a roadmap for what a sovereign cloud procurement strategy would look like.
Read the latest here, and find all previous chapters at the bottom of this post: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/l…
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The Canadian Shield Institute retweeted
The "AI For All" strategy delivered today by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Solomon this morning gets a 6/10 on our Sovereignty Score.
This much-anticipated document presents ambitious targets for AI adoption, infrastructure, and governance. But the devil is in the details.
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😈 in the details. We're making a massive bet on the presumed productivity promise(s) of this tech. It's not totally clear where the economic value capture strategy is. Excited about the acknowledgements of the need to invest in sovereign capabilities. Full write up to come.
The "AI For All" strategy delivered today by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Solomon this morning gets a 6/10 on our Sovereignty Score.
This much-anticipated document presents ambitious targets for AI adoption, infrastructure, and governance. But the devil is in the details.
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The "AI For All" strategy delivered today by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Solomon this morning gets a 6/10 on our Sovereignty Score.
This much-anticipated document presents ambitious targets for AI adoption, infrastructure, and governance. But the devil is in the details.
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Ultimately, success of Canada's AI strategy will hinge on whether we have a solid plan for capturing value from this technology, and ensuring that the value from AI benefits ordinary Canadians.
We will be tracking this file closely.
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In recent weeks we have been publishing a policy series "Foundations of Digital Sovereignty" that looks at governance, and value capture for Canada.
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This week Shield's Matthew da Mota presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research, about the importance of strategically protecting Canadian dual-use technology.
Read Matthew's full remarks to the committee here:
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Today we're publishing Chapter 5 of our policy series on digital sovereignty. This week we're looking at cloud security, and the way that foreign powers can interfere with Canadian data.
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So that's the big picture: For Canada to assert meaningful digital sovereignty, we need governance strategies for data, IP, and technical standards.
We also need to understand our vulnerabilities clearly, in order to address them.
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The first step for understanding our vulnerabilities is looking clearly at cloud systems, and understanding how the data flows.
It's not about where the servers are located. It's about the governance. canadianshieldinstitute.ca/l…
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This week, in Chapter 4 of Foundations of Digital Sovereignty, we're talking about the value of data, and the role of governance in the digital economy.
We need to reframe the terms of how data is used, to protect Canadians from exploitation:
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