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Digital citizen initiative
Description of the policy/measure
The digital citizen initiative (dci) is a multi-component strategy that aims to support democracy and social cohesion in canada by building citizen resilience against online disinformation and building partnerships to support a healthy information ecosystem. the dci supports citizen-focused activities (including digital, news and civic literacy programming and tools), research, and civil society/academic capacity building through grants and contributions funding to better understand and build resilience to online disinformation in canada.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Results achieved
In 2019, the dci granted cad 7 million in funding to 23 projects to support digital media and civic literacy prior to the 2019 federal election. it also granted $2.1 million in funding to 8 research projects that aim to better understand the origins, spread, and impacts of online disinformation in canada and how digital media and civic literacy activities can be better evaluated. the dci also supports the public policy forum's digital democracy project ($2.5 million over 4 years) and has initiated a joint initiaitve with the social science and humanities research council (sshrc) ($2 million over 4 years).
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Usd 9.9 million (cad 13.4 million)