Threatscape - Mapping global risks in a changing world

On 15 September, only a few days after the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) held a closed roundtable with the active participation of Members of Parliament (MP), human rights defenders, women’s rights activists, and other experts and academics. The roundtable explored actio...

As the illiberal use of technologies threatens to reshape the balance of power, MIGS is organizing a speaker series on digital authoritarianism. American and Canadian practitioners, researchers, and members of the private sector and civil society shine light on the strategies used by authoritarian states and discuss the pressing need for alliances between Canada, the U.S., and like-minded democrat...

The Montreal Institute of Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), in collaboration with United Tegaru Canada hosted a virtual discussion to shine light on the ongoing humanitarian crisis occurring in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region. Speakers: Allan Rock, President Emeritus of the University of Ottawa and Professor, Faculty of Law. Nima Elbagir, award-winning international television correspond...

With support from the Department of Heritage’s Digital Citizens Contribution Program, MIGS launched the Canadian Women Leaders' Digital Defence Initiative in January 2021 to highlight online harassment of female journalists and politicians in Canada, and its impacts on democracy. With the launch of the "Canadian Women Leaders' Digital Defence Initiative" report. we highlighted the problem on onlin...

Atrocity crimes are considered to be the most serious crimes against humanity. Its status as an international crime is based on the belief that the acts associated with it affect the dignity of human beings. This discussion brings together three high-level experts to reflect, and review current thinking on atrocity prevention approaches.  Alice Nderitu, UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on th...

Dans le cadre de la Coalition canadienne pour contrer la désinformation en ligne sur la COVID-19, le MIGS a parlé avec Olivier Bernard, mieux connu sous le pseudonyme du "Pharmachien". Olivier un pharmacien du Québec et vulgarisateur scientifique qui se passionne pour la science et les mythes médicaux. La Coalition canadienne pour contrer la désinformation en ligne sur la COVID-19 est un projet fi...

Dans l’écosystème informationnel dans lequel nous nous trouvons aujourd’hui, tout le monde peut créer et publier du contenu. Il est de plus en plus difficile de discerner les faits de la fiction, les exagérations de la manipulation. Nous discutons du jeu vidéo « Harmony Square » et des manières dont ces technologies peuvent être utilisées pour comprendre les mécanismes de la désinformation sur les...

Dans le cadre de la Coalition canadienne pour contrer la désinformation en ligne sur la COVID-19, le MIGS a parlé avec Alexis de Lancer, journaliste et animateur de l'émission hebdomadaire "Décrypteurs" sur les ondes de ICI RDI. Avec mes collègues Jeff Yates, Marie-Pier Élie et Nicholas De Rosa, il explore le phénomène de la désinformation et des fausses nouvelles. Coalition canadienne pour contre...

This interview is part of the Canadian Coalition to Counter COVID19 Digital Disinformation project. In this episode, we chat with Christina Nemr, Director at Park Advisors. Park Advisors organizes and analyses information, building solutions to issues like disinformation, terrorism, violent extremism, hate speech and more. We chat about their platform DisinfoCloud and the game Harmony Square, in w...

This interview is part of the Canadian Coalition to Counter COVID19 Digital Disinformation project. In this episode, we chat with Fenwick McKelvey, Scott DeJong, Elsa Donovan, and Saskia Kowalchuk from the Algorithmic Media Observatory. Much of the work of the observatory focuses on understanding the consequences of algorithms and the digitization of our society. We discuss their recent work study...

This interview series is part of the "Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Expression" (SAIFE) project by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. In this episode, MIGS' Executive Director Kyle Matthews interviews Lucina Di Meco of She Persisted  

This interview series is part of the "Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Expression" (SAIFE) project by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. In this episode, MIGS' Executive Director Kyle Matthews interviews Zach Devereaux from Nexalogy.  

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project.   Alice Stollmeyer is the Founder and Executive Director of  Defend Democracy . A former Digital Advocacy Strategist, she has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, the heart of the European Union. With a solid back...

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project.   Linda Slapakova is an analyst with RAND Europe in the area of defence and security. Her research focuses on the impacts of emerging technologies in defence, emerging security and information threats, and defence workforce and...

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project.   Nad’a Kovalčíková is a program manager and fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) in GMF's Brussels office. While working on ASD’s European outreach, she focuses also on transatlantic cooperation, NATO, EU – U.S....

Lors de la cinquième session de notre série d'évènement sur la COVID-19 et la désinformation, nous avons parlé des acteurs principaux, des thèmes clés, et du développement de la littératie numérique au sein de la population canadienne. Qu'est ce qui est fait au Québec, au Canada et en Europe? Intervenant(e)s: - Divina Frau-Meigs, professeure, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Marc Ladouceur, Media Sm...

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project. Marcus Kolga is an international award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, digital communications strategist, and a leading Canadian expert on Russian and Central and Eastern European issues. Marcus has a focus on commun...

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project. John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. He is also a professor of electrical engineering, law, public policy, and management at UCLA, as well a...

The "AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project. Fabio is Project Manager at AlgorithmWatch for the 2020 edition of the  Automating Society  report. After a decade in tech reporting, he worked as a consultant and assistant researcher in data and politics (Tactical Tech), and...

"AI and COVID-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" is carried out in partnership with the OSCE's Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media's #SAIFE project. Gater Gattami is Senior Researcher at RISE. He worked at MIT as a research associate in 2008 and joined KTH during 2009-2012 as an assistant professor. Dr. Gattami served as a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research from 2012-2015 w...

Join this digital townhall to learn about COVID-19 disinformation and the future of internet governance and content moderation. Tina Purnat, World Health Organization Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa Rory Smith, First Draft News Philippe-Andre Rodriguez, Global Affairs Canada The Canadian Coalition to Counter COVID Digital Disinformation is a project or...

Lors de la troisième session de notre série d'évènement sur la COVID-19 et la désinformation, nous parlons des acteurs principaux, des thèmes clés, et du rôle des médias dans la vérification des faits. En partenariat avec  Agence Science Presse Ce joindront à nous: - Eve Dubé. Anthropologue. Chercheure à l'Institut national de santé publique du Québec - Nicholas de Rosa. Journaliste, Les Décrypteu...

In collaboration with the Institute for Economics and Peace,MIGS hosted the Canadian launch of the IEP's 2020 Global Terrorism Index.   This event was streamed live on our YouTube channel  as well as our  Facebook page . The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) recently published the 2020 Global Peace Index (GTI). The GTI is an annual report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace. Now...

In this second installment of our series on COVID-19 and disinformation we discussed key actors, themes, and impacts of conspiracy theories and disinformation in the Canadian context. We will be joined by: Dr. Joan Donovan (Shorenstein Center at Harvard University), Melanie Smith (Graphika), and Dr. Heidi Tworek (UBC & CIGI). Aphrodite Salas (Concordia University) moderated this discussion. The di...

One year after Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a humanitarian crisis is developing in the Horn of Africa as thousands of people are fleeing the two-week conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Since the start of the conflict between the Ethiopian Defence Forces and the Tigray Regional Paramilitary Police and militia loyal to the Tigray People Liberation Front,...