Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research supports the goals of the Government of Canada’s approach to protecting democracy and the Digital Citizen Initiative.
The purpose of this funding is to:
- promote Canadian research that will develop better understanding — based on empirical evidence — of the impacts of online disinformation in Canada in order to better inform programs and policies;
- build Canada’s capacity to conduct research on and related to countering online disinformation and other related online harms; and
- help foster a community of research in the digital citizenship and online disinformation space in Canada.