This fall, Alternatives finalized a cooperative agreement with this project led by our friends and comrades Stéphane Couture (Université de Montréal) and Sophie Toupin (McGill University), and with the support of Leonard Buckles of the team.
A meeting was held on January 18th to provide an update. To begin, the Lab-Delta project is a digital rights initiative funded by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). This project involves the creation of a youth research and community engagement institute (an office, center or lab) that is intended to be at the intersection of digital literacy, Internet governance and the promotion of human rights in the digital world. Conducted in collaboration with the Université de Montréal, this initiative includes a research component, the creation of a chatbot, and communication activities. The collaboration of Alternatives is expected through interns and approaches to solicit financial support.
” The Laboratory on Online Rights and Alternative Technologies (Lab-Delta) is a research and action lab with the primary goal of producing research and tools at the intersection of technology, political activism, and critical thinking.”
The Lab-Delta also wishes to become a space of experimentation for community engagement and the adoption of tools, skills, and new digital activist practices so that technologies are at the service of the development of a society based on social justice, respect for rights, and equality.
Lab-Delta is distinguished by its approach to a free, democratic, and accessible internet for all and wants to be the first progressive and francophone “think tank” on digital issues. Lab-Delta also wants to become a space of experimentation for community engagement and the adoption of tools, skills, and new activist digital practices so that technologies are at the service of the development of a society based on social justice, respect for rights, and equality.
To view the project’s achievements, visit the Lab-Delta website at https://www.labdelta.ca/
