[Tcadvisors] Re: [Advisors] Signal49 article: The Digital Dividend: The Economic Potential of Canada’s Data Sovereignty

Thanks Chris. That’s a reasonable take, and one more sign of a growing awareness of a problem that needs new perspectives. It does prompt me to make two comments: 1. In its focus on economic potential, the article assumes the key actors in the emergence of Canada’s data sovereignty strategy should be “firms.” Elsewhere, I’ve argued that the starting point, and real societal issue, is individual digital autonomy, not just data sovereignty as a matter of national economic development. 2. In paragraph 2, I note the phrase “purposeful innovation.” I believe that to be an oxymoron. There’s many ways of understanding organizational change. But there’s one description that seems meaningful to me. Change occurs because someone says “I can’t stand this anymore,” and acts to change it. It is individuals acting as catalysts in the context of self-organizing communities of practice that cause organizational change. Management’s purposefulness mostly seeks to control. All the more reason to ensure the digital autonomy of the individual. GG