Digitally Ordered Products and Services via Intermediaries

Foreign firms mediate roughly 60% of digital products and services used by Canadians.*

As foreign companies extract value from Canadian data without much oversight, Canada risks ceding not just economic opportunity, but also the foundations of our digital sovereignty.

Canadian institutions hold huge troves of data — health records, geological and climate data, financial data and more. This data is especially valuable, but it remains uncategorized, unorganized and ungoverned, leaving it vulnerable to non-purposeful exploitation despite its significant value.

This week in Chapter 4 of Foundations of Digital Sovereignty, Shield digs into the options available to Canada to protect, use and govern Canada’s data in ways that delivers the best outcomes for Canadians — both in terms of how it is used for commercial activity and what is protected for the public interest.

Check out Chapter 4 here.

*data point originally spotted in Signal49 Research Insights.