Wonks and War Rooms
71 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhere political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.
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Season 6 Episode 10: AI and Democracy with Seher Shafiq
April 10, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week Elizabeth talks with Seher Shafiq, a program manager at the Mozilla Foundation and expert in civic engagement, particularly in the context of elections and engaging marginalized people in the vote. They discuss how AI is impacting Canadian elections, civic engagement, and democracy. They look at helpful and not so helpful uses of AI tools in elections and chat about ways these tools could be used to increase voter engagement. Seher concludes the episode with suggestions for how we ...
Counter-speech as Content Moderation with Kesa White
April 03, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this episode Elizabeth discusses the idea of counter-speech as content moderation with far right extremist researcher, Kesa White. Kesa describes her work on “dog-whistling,” talks about how counter speech can be helpful but doesn’t solve the problem of hate speech online, and explains some of the challenges tech companies face with content moderation. Drawing on her own experience with hate-speech she emphasizes how important it is for us to keep being “in the know” about social media an...
Collective vs Connective Action with Michael Redhead Champagne
March 27, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBThis week Elizabeth talks with Michael Redhead Champagne, a community organizer in Winnipeg working to dismantle harmful systems and build better ones through Indigenous practices and knowledge. They discuss collective and connective action logics, and the importance of creating networks of people to promote and sustain change. Michael talks about building a spider web or network to help advance change, highlighting how essential fostering social connections is for pushing for political chan...
Parasocial Relationships with T.X. Watson
March 20, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode Elizabeth chats with TikTok creator and researcher T.X. Watson about parasocial relationships and how this term created in the 1950s applies, or not, to digital content creators. T.X. talks about relationships between influencers and their followers and how both research and popular culture still don't have words to properly describe this new form of connection. They discuss important topics that show up throughout this season of Wonks and War Rooms, such as authenticity, eth...
One-Step Flow with Hamish Marshall
March 06, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode Elizabeth delves into the fascinating world of data and personalization with Hamish Marshall, former National Campaign Manager for the Conservative Party of Canada and seasoned expert at the crossroads of data and politics. They explore the evolution from the Two-Step Flow to the One-Step Flow of Communication, examining how data personalization and the changing media landscape have shifted the way information is disseminated in political campaigns. Hamish shares real-world i...
Political Influencers with Nate Lubin
February 28, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode, Elizabeth chats with digital communication strategist and experienced political campaigner, Nate Lubin about social media content creators in politics. Nate draws on his experience with the Better Internet Initiative which helps influencers make educational content related to progressive issues as well as his past experience as Director of the Office of Digital Strategy at the White House and Director of Digital Marketing at Obama for America. They talk about what constitute...
News influencers with Rachel Gilmore
February 21, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this episode Elizabeth chats with journalist Rachel Gilmore about what counts as journalistic content and how to navigate the intersection of journalism and the social media influencer industry. Rachel is a freelance journalist who posts regularly on TikTok (@rachel_gilmore), Instagram (@r.gilmore), and X (@atRachelGilmore) having previously worked in organizations such as CTV and Global News. Additional Resources: In this episode, Elizabeth and Rachel discuss the blurred boundaries bet...
Social Media in Politics with Dave Sommer
February 14, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week Elizabeth chats with Dave Sommer, Vice President of Strategic Communication at Enterprise Canada, former Head of Politics and Government at Instagram in Washington, D.C., and former Deputy Director of Communications, Digital, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. They chat about the use of social media in political campaigning, where personal influence fits in, and how it has evolved over time. Additional Resources: Elizabeth and Dave discuss how social media can be a tool...
Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
January 31, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week Elizabeth chats with tech culture reporter and Washington Post columnist, Taylor Lorenz about influencers and the influencer industry. Taylor takes us from Ce-web-reties to influencers to content creators, telling us a bit about the history of folks who monetize their online presence. The two chat about the influencer industry beyond social media influencer marketing, the unique dynamics of political campaigning, smaller scale content creators as opinion leaders, and the ways in wh...
Personal Influence in Politics
January 24, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBPrepare for an intriguing journey in Season 6 of Wonks & War Rooms! Join Elizabeth Dubois as she unravels the dynamics of personal influence in politics, especially as it evolves with new technologies. In this episode Elizabeth talks about her experience working in politics and how it has pushed her to question what counts as personal influence and what roles technology plays in political communication. She also gives a peak at what to expect this season. New episodes drop Wednesday morni...
Season Six! Personal Influence in Politics
January 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.21 MBGet ready for Season 6 of Wonks & War Rooms! This season, we're looking at personal influence in politics and how it evolves as new technologies are integrated into campaign strategies. Host Elizabeth Dubois will talk to journalists, campaigners, content creators, activists and more to discuss everything from opinion leaders to social media influencers to personalization and augmented analytics to generative AI and how all of those things impact the way personal influence plays out in polit...
Season 5 Wrap Up
May 24, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes - 7.13 MBIn this final episode, our host Elizabeth reflects on the six episodes of Season 5, which dug into tech, politics, and policy with guests from the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard and Center for Information Technology and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She recaps highlights of each episode, looks at what they had in common, and where we need to dig a little deeper. Additional resources: Here are direct links to this season’s episodes, including show notes and annotated transcripts:...
Antitrust and Big Tech with Matt Perault
May 03, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBMatt Perault is the director of the Center on Technology Policy at UNC Chapel Hill, and previously worked at Facebook, as the head of the global policy development team. This episode he and Elizabeth get into the weeds on antitrust competition laws, monopolies and big tech. They talk about how monopolies can be both good and bad, the goals of antitrust laws, and the complication of these laws applying across different regions of the world. They also discuss some of the antitrust lawsuits in ...
The Use of AI in Canadian Politics
April 12, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this special episode Elizabeth is joined by our panel of experts — Samantha Bradshaw, Wendy Chun, Suzie Dunn, Fenwick McKelvey and Wendy H. Wong — for a roundtable discussion on how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. The topics range from mis- and disinformation, facial recognition, synthetic media, deep fakes and voice cloning to technical terms like GANs and large language models. We discuss the ways identities can be manipulated through AI, how g...
The Uses of AI in Canadian Politics
April 12, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this special episode Elizabeth is joined by our panel of experts — Samantha Bradshaw, Wendy Chun, Suzie Dunn, Fenwick McKelvey and Wendy H. Wong — for a roundtable discussion on how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. The topics range from mis- and disinformation, facial recognition, synthetic media, deep fakes and voice cloning to technical terms like GANs and large language models. We discuss the ways identities can be manipulated through AI, how g...
Trailer: April 3 Live event on the use of AI in Canadian politics
March 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 minute - 800 KBGet ready for a special live edition of Wonks and War Rooms! From deep fakes to detecting disinformation or harassment to voting predictions and sentiment analysis, AI-enabled technologies are playing an increasing role in democratic election processes. Join us on April 3 at 12 p.m. ET for a roundtable discussion on the use of artificial intelligence in politics. Our host Elizabeth Dubois, and a panel of experts in the fields of politics, public policy, and new technologies will help break d...
Big Tech and Political Campaigns with Becca Rinkevich
March 22, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBBecca Rinkevic is the Director of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and formerly the Deputy Director of Digital Strategy at the White House under President Joe Biden. This week she and Elizabeth are tackling the role of big tech in election campaigns and political advertising. They talk about the involvement of representatives from social media companies in election advertising campaigns, the changes in these relationships before after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and what the...
Meta Oversight Board with Julie Owono
March 08, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBJulie Owono is the executive director of Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders) and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She is also an inaugural member of the Meta Oversight Board, an independent group of experts who review appeals of content moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram, which is the topic of today’s episode. Elizabeth and Julie talk about the background of the board and the appeals process, how cases are chosen, the possibilities and...
Image Manipulation with Juliana Castro-Varón
February 22, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBJuliana Castro-Varón is the founder of the digital open access publisher Cita Press, and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. This episode she and Elizabeth discuss the historical examples of image manipulation, how photographic manipulations can mislead the public and the impact of images on our memories. They also talk about ways to spot fakes. Additional resources Early in the episode Juliana mentions this article about Photoshop in The Verge about the history of ...
Knowledge Mobilization for Policy Impact
February 08, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist, and co-director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab. This episode she and Elizabeth talk about how researchers get their expertise into the hands of people who shape the world we live in, like policymakers, politicians and journalists. They talk about what it means to know something, as well as different approaches to sharing knowledge, like co-production and co-learning. They also consider the power imbalances of knowledge and how to make sure t...
Knowledge Mobilization for Policy Impact with Petra Molnar
February 08, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist, and co-director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab. This episode she and Elizabeth talk about how researchers get their expertise into the hands of people who shape the world we live in, like policymakers, politicians and journalists. They talk about what it means to know something, as well as different approaches to sharing knowledge, like co-production and co-learning. They also consider the power imbalances of knowledge and how to make sure t...
Season 5: Technology, Politics & Policy
January 18, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute - 857 KBGet ready for Season 5 of Wonks & War Rooms! This season we’ll be diving into tech, politics, and policy. Host Elizabeth Dubois will talk to public policy managers, technologists & campaigners to discuss how technology policy is shaped, how technology is used in political campaigns, and what that means for political communication research and practice. As always, episodes will drop on Wednesday mornings each week starting Wednesday, February 8. Mark your calendars! Get caught up on past...
Post-Truth Politics with Vinita Srivastava
April 27, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBVinita Srivastava is the senior editor of culture and society for The Conversation Canada, and host of the podcast Don’t Call Me Resilient, as well as a research associate with the Global Journalism Innovation Lab. This episode, Vinita and Elizabeth chat about post-truth politics and the idea that how people feel about information is sometimes more influential than the actual facts. They discuss differences between the facts contained in a story versus the perspective of who is telling a sto...
Regulating Big Tech with Taylor Owen
April 20, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBTaylor Owen is a professor of public policy at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill university, and his research focuses mainly on tech regulation. This episode, he and Elizabeth define and categorize types of regulation. They discuss what tech regulation looks like, how lobbying impacts tech regulation, why regulation of tech is difficult, and the balance governments (both in Canada and internationally) must grapple with between regulation options and public good. This episode, re...
Journalism and online harassment with Rosemary Barton, Fatima Syed and Mark Blackburn
April 13, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis episode is an audio version of a special live taping of Wonks and War Rooms, in partnership with uOttawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society, where Elizabeth is joined by a panel of journalists to tackle a tough topic: online harassment of journalists and what it means for our democracy. Rosemary Barton is the Chief Political Correspondent for CBC News; Fatima Syed is a reporter for the Narwhal and host of Canadaland podcast The Backbench; and Mark Blackburn is the social media a...
Backfire Effect with Riyadh Nazerally
April 06, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBRiyadh Nazerally is the Director of Communications for the Hon. Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, and is the former Director of Communications for Capital Pride in Ottawa. This week he and Elizabeth discuss the backfire effect and its three types: familiarity, overkill and worldview. They talk about how to understand and handle the backfire effect when it happens. Riyadh explains how comms and policy teams figure out how much information to send, who to send it to,...
Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles with Adi Rao (re-release)
March 30, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBAdi, a lawyer and campaigner, explains how campaigns are often thinking about how they can crack into people's filter bubbles in order to raise awareness and find new supporters. During the conversation Elizabeth and Adi tease apart the difference between algorithmically driven filter bubbles and echo chambers which come about as a result of individuals choices in their media environment. Additional Resources: Eli Pariser has a helpful Ted Talk about his notion of the Filter Bubble: Bewar...
Live Recording Alert! March 22 at noon with Rosemary Barton, Fatima Syed and Mark Blackburn
March 18, 2022 00:00 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MBJournalists Facing Mean Tweets: What It Means for Our Democracy - Join us Tuesday, March 22 at noon ET for a live virtual event! Register here. In this special live recording of the podcast, Elizabeth will chat with Rosemary Barton, chief political correspondent for CBC, Fatima Syed, host of The Backbench podcast (Canadaland) and vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, and Mark Blackburn, online producer for APTN. They will talk about increasingly toxic online spaces an...
Political Polarization with Sean Speer
March 16, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBSean Speer is the Editor-At-Large at The Hub, a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and previously served as Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He and Elizabeth chat about political polarization and dig into the different theories of polarization including elite polarization and mass polarization, as well as ideological versus affective polarization. They discuss the idea of politics as a left-to-right spectrum, polarization causing artificial di...
Propaganda, Government Comms, and Disinformation with Shuvaloy Majumdar
March 09, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBShuvaloy Majumdar is the Foreign Policy Director and Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and this week he and Elizabeth tackle propaganda, government communication and mis/disinformation. They discuss the blurry line between government messaging and propaganda, and what they can look like in authoritarian versus democratic regimes. Shuvaloy also speaks to his experiences of government communications as a former policy director to foreign ministers. Additional Resources E...
Information Disorder with Claire Wardel
February 23, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBClaire Wardel is a professor at Brown University and the co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinformation and the tools needed to fight it. She and Elizabeth chat about information disorder, a term Claire helped coin. The term helps us think about issues related to mis- and dis- information as bigger than being about fact or not. Claire explains how it is actually much more important to think about the information environments people find themselves in, how they might b...
Information Disorder with Claire Wardle
February 23, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBClaire Wardle is a professor at Brown University and the co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinformation and the tools needed to fight it. She and Elizabeth chat about information disorder, a term Claire helped coin. The term helps us think about issues related to mis- and dis- information as bigger than being about fact or not. Claire explains how it is actually much more important to think about the information environments people find themselves in, how they might b...
Rebroadcast of Mis- and Dis- Information with Nasma Ahmed
February 16, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBTo kick-off our season on mis- and dis- info we are rebroadcasting this great conversation with Nasma Ahmed who is the Director of the Digital Justice Lab. In this episode, recorded in 2019, Nasma helps Elizabeth unpack what exactly mis- and dis- information are, why we need to question content we see online, and how a lack of trust in larger political systems plays in. Additional Resources: First Draft has a number of very useful resources. Find some key definitions in Wardel's Fake news...
Welcome to Season 4: Mis- and Dis- Information
February 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.17 MBThis season of Wonks and War Rooms is going to focus on mis- and dis- information. We'll talk about information disorder, political polarization, post-truth politics, and more! Tune in to hear from political strategists, journalists, public policy folks, and academics. Get caught up on past episodes and find fully annotated transcripts in English and French at https://www.polcommtech.com/. Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
Mapping theories for media and digital literacy
December 15, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis week Elizabeth wraps up season 3! This season was focused on Media and Digital Literacy, and Elizabeth runs through all the concepts we covered to help you gain a greater understanding of how these concepts are interrelated. Elizabeth also takes a look back at some concepts and episodes from previous seasons, and looks to the future for our next season on mis and dis-information. Additional Resources: Remember Season 3, Episode 1 with Matthew from Media Smarts? This excellent resourc...
Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar (re-release)
December 08, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBElizabeth chats with public policy expert Vass Bednar about surveillance capitalism. Taking a few Canadian examples, they talk about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute to the system of surveillance capitalism. Additional Resources: Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is the key text. There are also a lot of summaries of the book in blog posts, podc...
Technological Affordances with Rachel Aiello
November 24, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBThis week Elizabeth chats about technological affordances with Rachel Aiello, an online politics producer for CTVNews.ca and a member of the parliamentary press gallery. They chat about how technology is changing how journalists report and how audiences receive information, from politicians on social media to journalists working from their phones. They also talk about technological determinism in order to highlight why it is important we think about affordances in the first place. Additi...
Content Moderation with Andrew Strait (re-release)
November 17, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBFormer content moderator and current director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Andrew Strait and Elizabeth chat about what content moderation is, why it is always flawed, and how the way in which platforms are constructed impact the flow of content. They talk about a bunch of related issues including how to (and how not to) regulate tech companies in order to minimize harms. Additional Resources Andrew recommended two great books that look at content moderation and content moderators: Behind...
Political Satire with Tim Fontaine (of Walking Eagle News)
November 03, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBTim Fontaine is a former journalist who founded the satirical news website Walking Eagle News. He and Elizabeth chat about the role of political satire in peoples’ information diets. Political satire can provide an audience with a different perspective, help people understand the dominant narratives, and highlight gaps in dominant discourses. Elizabeth and Tim cover everything from the role of political satire, to critiques of political satire, to the difference between political satire and ...
Safe Spaces with Erin Gee (of the Bad + Bitchy Podcast)
October 27, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBErin Gee is a policymaker, specialist in gender-based analysis, and Co-Founder of the Bad + Bitchy Podcast, and this week she discusses safe spaces with Elizabeth. Safe Spaces are online or physical spaces where historically marginalized groups might connect, share information and ideas, and mobilize. How does the idea of safe spaces connect to media and digital literacy? We consume information in social contexts, safe spaces can be one of those contexts. Erin and Elizabeth cover types of sa...
Selective Avoidance with Jen Gerson
October 20, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBThis week Elizabeth chats with Jen Gerson, a freelance journalist and co-founder of The Line, about selective avoidance. Whether it be blocking someone on Twitter, unfriending someone on Facebook, or just carefully choosing from which sources we get our news, selective avoidance is an everyday occurrence. They discuss topics like the role of emotion in selective avoidance, fragmented media environments, political polarization, and hyper engagement. Additional Resources: Elizabeth uses this...
Political Information Repertoires with Murad Hemmadi
October 13, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBMurad Hemmadi is a reporter for The Logic and this week he talks to Elizabeth about political information repertoires. From party campaign material to policy discussions to political memes, political information repertoires can be a mix of a lot of different things. They chat about what makes up a persons’ repertoire, the idea of Slacktivism, the lack of ‘backstory’ in the news, and Jagmeet Singh’s TikTok. Additional Resources: Elizabeth draws on this article by Wolfsfeld et al. to define ...
Critical Digital Literacy with Matthew Johnson of Media Smarts
October 06, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBMatthew Johnson is the Director of Education for MediaSmarts, and he chats with Elizabeth about critical digital literacy. From house hippos to authenticating information online, Elizabeth and Matthew discuss functional and critical aspects of media and digital literacy. They talk about the skills required to use digital and media tools, and the “key concept approach” to digital literacy, and digital literacy in the context of democratic systems. Additional Resources: Check out Media Smart...
Season Three! Media and Digital Literacy
September 29, 2021 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.33 MBThis season we are doing things a little bit differently. We are going to spend this season looking at media and digital literacy and a bunch of political communication theories that are related. Next week we kick things off with a run down of what exactly media and digital literacy are. Then we will go week by week talking about things like political information repertoires, selective avoidance, political satire, safe spaces and more. Elizabeth will be chatting with journalists, political...
What's Next for Wonks and War Rooms?
April 21, 2021 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.67 MBMini-episode coming at you. Elizabeth closes out season 2 with an update on plans for next season and a request to you listeners! While we are away you can follow Elizabeth's work on Twitter @lizdubois Check out the Pol Comm Tech Lab website: www.polcommtech.ca Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
Networked Fourth Estate with Sherry Aske
April 14, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBSherry Aske, former CBC multimedia journalist, and Elizabeth chat about the fourth estate and the networked fourth estate. They dive into the origins of theories and the range of information producers that make up the networked fourth estate. Sherry and Elizabeth also reflect on the power dynamics at play between actors in the networked fourth estate and what that means for who gets heard in the current media environment. Additional Resources This open-access academic journal article by Yoc...
Digital Transformation with Shaaz Nasir
April 07, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBShaaz is a Digital Advisor and Director of Digital Transformation for Microsoft and he chats with Elizabeth about what exactly is digital transformation. They go from academic definition, to business buzz words, to practical applications. Shaaz explains why he puts humanity at the centre of digital transformation and why he always wants to focus on "why" (rather than just what fancy new tech can we use). Additional Resources Elizabeth uses this academic journal article by Gregory Vial (201...
Liquid Politics with Etienne Rainville from the Boys in Short Pants
March 31, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBEtienne Rainville of The Boys in Short Pants podcast, former Hill staffer, and government relations expert chats with Elizabeth about liquid modernity. They chat about how the fast-paced nature of politics, how political actors learn about the issues, and the role of Twitter in Canadian politics and policy making. Additional Resources Chapter 4 in the book Political Communication and Social Theory by Davis is a great place to start to understand liquid politics. Etienne also mentions Poli...
Citizenship and the Digital Context with Anowa Quarcoo
March 17, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBCo-founder of CivicTechTO and self-declared certified nerd, Anowa Quarcoo chats with Elizabeth about the idea of citizenship. They talk about legal and cultural definitions of citizenship before jumping into a discussion of what counts as a citizen in a digital era. From civic leaders, to publics, to users, to citizens - they talk about how some terms can be empowering while others can be exclusionary. Key take-away? Context matters. You need to ask why you are trying to define a group with ...
Open Data with Mor Rubinstein
March 10, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBMor is a self-described data geek, she chats with Elizabeth about what open data actually is, how it can be used, and why it isn't always the perfect fix (but still helpful) for increasing government transparency and accountability. Hear about examples from government and philanthropy in Canada, Israel, and the UK. Additional Resources Two useful websites for defining open data are: open.canada.ca and opendefinition.org. In the episode, Mor mentions a McKinsey report that discusses the po...