Social Media Interoperability for Canada: An Implementers Guide
By Renee Black and Mathushan Thilakanathan
Interoperability offers a powerful tool for realigning the internet around user interests rather than corporate priorities. It also reflects rapidly changing consumer sentiment. Interoperability can help shift digital economies away from centralized corporate control and ownership of data toward strengthening individual ownership and control over data.
While fostering a more competitive environment for emerging platforms, the DCA can help reset the balance of power between users and technology companies, and create the effect of allowing users to hold platforms accountable. It also offers a model for recalibrating the power dynamic between the United States, Canada and all other digital economies.
This technical paper is a companion document to policy paper Why Now Is The Time For Social Media Interoperability Policy In Canada (link) and to a one-pager summary (link).
