{"id":259,"date":"2010-07-01T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T23:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-05-25T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:14:53","slug":"building-digital-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/building-digital-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Digital Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave me the best overview of the background\/lead-up to our current state of digital affairs AND the overview of what IS and WHO has what agenda in it all. And why.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">For a fairly smart, somewhat tech-savvy\u00a0but overwhelmed Canadian, this hour I spent hearing the CTRC guy talk regulation changes, Bell Canada talk infrastructure, Nordicity explain content issues, Industry Canada moderating and somewhat baffled about what to do,\u00a0and the awesome Gerri Sinclair\u00a0from the Centre for Digital Media\u00a0placing things in context\u00a0and offering actions to take &#8211; this has finally penetrated to some sort of understanding. And a sense of\u00a0urgency that isn&#8217;t just impotent anxiety. I think there are actually things I can DO. It&#8217;s pretty amazing, really.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I&#8217;m recommending to anyone who should &#8216;get&#8217; this stuff, that they go watch this Video on Demand on the CPAC site. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/programs\/public-record\/episodes\/16011636\">2010 Canadian Telecom Summit on CPAC<\/a><\/span>\u00a0asap.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">What do you think?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing. I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[34,50,18],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-creative-capital","tag-economy","tag-innovative-thinking","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}