How Canada Wins at Tech
About this episode
The episode discusses Canada's potential for tech sovereignty in light of overreliance on American tech giants and European movements to decouple from them.
Like most of the world, Canada overrelies on and is beholden to American digital entities like Google and Amazon. But now movements are underfoot, in Europe especially, to decouple from the American tech giants. Host Stephen Marche explores how those efforts could inform the growth of a native Canadian tech sovereignty with Cristina Caffara, a driving force behind Eurostack; Margarethe Vestager, former European Commissioner for Competition; and author Tim Wu (The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity). Featuring (in order of appearance): Judge Kimberly Prost , Tim Wu , Margrethe Vestager & Cristina Caffarra Also visit our website— gloves-off.ca —for more research behind the issues from the Canadian Shield Institute including: what would happen if overnight we suddenly lost all access to American tech as told through an infographic Follow us on YouTube where you can watch our aftershow Cross Check that drops each Thursday with Vass Bednar and Jon Shell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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