OpenMedia.ca and The Digital Economy Consultation

On May 10, 2010, the federal Minister of Industry announced a Digital Economy Consultation to help prepare a Digital Strategy for Canada. OpenMedia.ca has been critical of the narrowness of this consultation process. We did, however, want to make sure the government heard your voice. Since the government chose to ground the consultation in the economy rather than society at large, we made a submission putting an economic argument to support Net Neutrality - find it HERE

We also endorsed the Consensus Submission to the Digital Economy Consultation found below and available for download HERE. At the University of Toronto a group of faculty and graduate students responded to the consultation by convening an open collaborative process to prepare a submission. The key event was a Round table held on June 14, that was followed by a collaborative wiki. The process was convened 
by
 Andrew 
Clement
 and 
Karen 
Louise 
Smith
 with 
the
 support 
of
 Faculty
 of 
Information;
 Identity,
 Privacy
 and 
Security 
Institute 
(IPSI); Knowledge
 Media
 Design 
Institute
 (KMDI) at the University
 of
 Toronto
.

The result was a consensus submission, endorsed by 78 individuals from academia, civil society organizations and the private sector.

We are especially pleased to note that the submission adopts the SaveOurNet.ca Coalition's position on Net Neutrality.

OpenMedia.ca is happy to endorse this impressive document and we plan to encourage the government to put it into action.

Here is a video that includes interviews with some of the participants of the initial round table including OpenMedia.ca board member Leslie Regan Shade.

Full Report:

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