The rapidly shifting digital landscape is reshaping our society, our economy, and our democracy. Although recent progress has been made with the naming of children in Bill C-27, there are a series of additional concerns related to digital privacy, including the use of facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technologies, impacting the potential harm that children can face in their online activity.
On Wednesday, September 28th at 12:00pm ET, join a panel of experts in discussion about the twin challenges of rights & safety when it comes to protecting children online, moderated by Supriya Dwivedi.
Panelists
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson is the Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy. He is the author of many of MediaSmarts’ lessons, parent materials and interactive resources and a lead on MediaSmarts’ Young Canadians in a Wired World research project. As an acknowledged expert in digital literacy and its implementation in Canadian curricula, Matthew is the architect of MediaSmarts’ Use, Understand, Create: Digital Literacy Framework for Canadian K-12 Schools. He has contributed blogs and articles to websites and magazines around the world as well as presenting MediaSmarts’ materials on topics such as copyright, cyberbullying, body image and online hate to parliamentary committees, academic conferences and governments and organizations around the world.
Merelda Fiddler-Potter
Merelda Fiddler-Potter is a former journalist and documentary filmmaker, who spent 16 years working CBC and is presently a PhD candidate at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in Regina a faculty Lecturer at the school's University of Saskatchewan campus. Merelda is also a sessional lecturer at the First Nations University of Canada, where she teaches in Indigenous Studies, Communication Arts, Indigenous Business, and the Reconciliation Certificate. Her research explores the media’s role in helping Canadians learn the truth of our colonial policies, the impact it has on Indigenous people, and how the media can keep Indigenous issues high on the public agenda.
Terence Hamilton
Terence Hamilton is a domestic policy specialist at UNICEF Canada and a director at the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of the Child. He previously worked as a child rights investigator for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a senior policy analyst for the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services.
Moderator
Supriya Dwivedi
Supriya Dwivedi joined the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy in March 2022 in the new role of Director of Policy and Engagement. Supriya has extensive experience in government relations and public affairs, where her work has largely focused on providing strategic counsel to both international and Canadian clients on public affairs campaigns at all levels of government, maintaining and building stakeholder relationships, and assessing the policy implications of legislation within the Canadian regulatory framework. Supriya has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from McGill University, as well as civil law (LL.B.) and common law (J.D.) degrees from Université de Montréal. She is a highly sought-after media commentator, appearing weekly on CBC’s “Power & Politics” and writing regularly for the Toronto Star and the National Observer as a contributing political columnist.