Writing

Toronto Star – Canada’s focus on overhyped future threats of AI miss the harms already being perpetuated against us – May 2024, co-authored with Kristen Thomasen

Data & Society – “Counterpublics” – Chapter in “Keywords of the Datafied State” – April 2024, co-authored with Matthew Bui

Centre for International Governance Innovation – “Artificial Governance: AIDA Repeats the Failed Patterns of Digital Regulation” – Dec 18, 2023 co-authored with Sean McDonald

The Monitor – We’re in an AI Hype Cycle – Can Canada Make it a Responsible one? – July 20, 2023

Centre for International Governance Innovation – “Canada’s ArriveCAN App Is Fostering Inequity at the Border” – Sept 9, 2022, co-authored with Matt Malone

Toronto Star – Health Canada Needs to Shut Down the COVID Alert App – Apr 25, 2022

Boston Review – In Toronto, Google’s Attempt to Privatize Government Fails, For Now  – May 13, 2020

Centre for International Governance Innovation – Forget “Building Back Better” – Technology Needs to Be Built Differently – Dec 2020

Centre for International Governance Innovation – “The Proposed Rogers-Shaw Merger Exposes a Deeply Flawed Internet Access Model” – Apr 6, 2021 co-authored with Ben Klass and Dwayne Winseck

AZURE Magazine – Shared Governance: A Democratic Future for Public Spaces  – Feb 3, 2021 co-authored with Zahra Ebrahim

The Site Magazine – Playing  Your Collective Political Position – June 2020

First Policy Response – Hard Questions for Policy-Makers About Digital Contact Tracing – May 21, 2020 co-authored with Sean McDonald

Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship – Technology for Public Good in the Public Service –  September 5, 2019

Toronto Life – Corporations Should Not Be Controlling Our City-Building – September 4, 2019

Centre for International Governance Innovation – What is a Data Trust? – October 9, 2018 co-authored with Sean McDonald.

Toronto Star – Is Sidewalk Labs doing enough to protect privacy? No – August 28, 2018 co-authored with David Murakami Wood.

Centre for International Governance Innovation – Searching for the Smart City’s Democratic Future August 13, 2018

Motherboard/VICE – Google Is Still Planning a ‘Smart City’ in Toronto Despite Major Privacy Concerns August 1, 2018

Huffington Post Canada – Sidewalk Toronto Has Yet To Give Us A Reason To Trust Its Smart City Experiment May 9, 2018

Centre for International Governance Innovation – Governance Vacuums and How Code is Becoming Law March 13, 2108

The Globe and Mail – Smart Communities Need Smart Governance March 2, 2018

Huffington Post Canada – Forget Smart City Tech, The Promise Lies in Great Government Tech January 5, 2018

Huffington Post Canada – Think Hard Before Handing Tech Firms The Rights To Our Cities’ Data – November 8, 2017

Code for America Blog – Countering the Digital Consensus — Technology, Elites, and Elections June 27, 2017

Healthcare in America – Creative Commons and Hope — How Open Access Journals Helped Me in a Dark Time April 29, 2017

Torontoist – How Government IT Projects Can Avoid Repeating the Same Mistakes By Looking at Procurement September 2, 2016

How can we improve urban resilience with open data? Paper ODI/Open North

My Civic Tech columns for Torontoist

My Medium account. Tech/politics/policy/messy thinking and reflections – a place to think out loud.