scholarly journals Alexa, Please: Babysit My Child

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Kayla Clarke

According to the Statistics Canada report from 2019, when it comes to the amount of time spent online, Canada beats out every other country in the world. This has likely been amplified due to the stay-at-home order caused by the COVID-19 crisis, hence why the new Bill C-11 will strengthen the current policies defending Canadians from corporate digital overstep. Alexa, Please: Babysit My Child will explore, analyze, and evaluate Amazon's neuro-capitalistic technologies, specifically pertaining to the technologies made for child-use. Neuro-capitalism is dangerous as it speaks to controlling the mind through the current hyper-technological society. Jurisdictional complexity surrounding A.I. and cybersecurity can be mitigated by government-funded education. Therefore, my research explores the question: From a neuro-capitalistic & digital-colonial standpoint, to what extent are Amazon's child-targeted technologies' (such as Kindle 4 Kids) consistent with the privacy policies of the new, proposed Bill C-11? This policy analysis will consist of three sections—first, an analysis of Amazon's Kindle 4 Kids Terms and Conditions (Site 1). Second, an evaluation of Bill C-11’s ability to protect children from the pernicious aspects of neuro-capitalism (Site 2). Lastly, a compare and contrast section of the two entities, ending with a discussion of the findings. Particularly during the COVID-19 crisis, we must be sure that the Government of Canada is doing everything in their power to aid the youth of the country that spends the most time online and the most time with their babysitter: Alexa. 

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Fraser

Abstract: In the late 1990s, the Government of Canada launched a string of initiatives to usher its citizens into the “information age.” Recently, the federal government has announced “mission accomplished” in its pledge to become a “model user” of information technology, recognized around the world as the country most connected to its citizens. This paper interrogates the term “model user” as a marker of the changes occurring to techniques of government in our expanding information society. It proposes that the “model user” represents ways to negotiate the changing relationship between nation, state, and citizen associated with economic restructuring and signals a new civilizing discourse for citizen conduct amid the dynamic flows of information and ideas. Further, the “model user” suggests an emphasis on innovation that is implicated within larger discourses of economic globalization and the premium placed on adaptability and creativity. Finally, this paper makes vivid the connections between the “model user” and emerging discourses of Canada as a “model democracy” and Canadians as “model citizens” within the global context. Résumé : À la fin des années 90, le gouvernement du Canada a créé une série d’initiatives afin de lancer ses citoyens dans « l’ ère de l’information ». Tout récemment, le gouvernement fédéral a proclamé « mission accomplie” en ce qui concerne son objectif de devenir un « utilisateur modèle » des technologies de l’information, reconnu à travers le monde comme étant le pays le plus connecté à ses citoyens. Cet article interroge le terme d’ « utilisateur modèle » en tant que marqueur des changements qui affectent les techniques de gouvernance dans notre société de l’information toujours grandissante. Il propose que « l’utilisateur modèle », d’une part, illustre les façons de négocier la relation changeante entre nation, État et citoyen qui est associée aux restructurations économiques et, d’autre part, signale un nouveau discours civilisateur pour la conduite du citoyen plongé dans les courants dynamiques d’informations et d’idées. De plus, l’ « utilisateur modèle » met l’accent sur l’innovation et s’insère dans un discours plus large sur la globalisation économique et sur la valeur accordée à l’adaptabilité et la créativité. Finalement, cet article met en lumière les liens qui existent entre l’ « utilisateur modèle » et les discours émergents qui présentent le Canada comme une “démocratie modèle » et les Canadiens comme « citoyens modèles » au sein d’un contexte global.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Madinah Nabukeera

In face of the Novel Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the world, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni issued clear rules; stay at home unless it’s an emergency, wash your hands, sanitize, report any related cases for contact tracing and testing. In his directive all passenger services were stopped including private vehicles and imposed a curfew 7 pm until 6:30 a.m., which made stay at home orders mandatory. Majority of Ugandan urban dwellers are hand-to -mouth and live off their capability to move to town centers daily a small interruption in their routine means many went hungry. The government of Uganda broadcasted measures to distribute relief food items to troubled and vulnerable population mainly in the towns since those in the country sides are able to grow food and provide for their families. This article articulates the politics in the food in Wakiso and Kampala districts in Uganda why there was bias. The study used the selected all documents related to food distribution using content analysis and results indicated that anyone found distributing food outside the national covid-19 task force will be charged with attempted murder hence stopped politicians from strategizing ahead of 2021 parliamentary, presidential and local elections which implied that Covid-19 disrupted over 134 districts in the country in line with the preparation of elections and left majority hungry.


SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110450
Author(s):  
Cletus O. Obasi ◽  
Christopher M. Anierobi

The Government Stay-at-Home policy regarding the COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly aggravated the plight of the homeless, especially in Nigeria that has about 108 million homeless people who require special attention. Observations show that most of them situate randomly across urban centers in Nigeria and have no access to pronounced shelter, healthcare facilities, hygiene materials, and defined source of income. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging many countries, most governments adopted the Stay-at-Home policy among some other policy measures that were recommended by the World Health Organization toward containing the spread of the virus. Given the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home policy of Nigerian Government, this study looked into the plight of the homeless-poor with a view to evolve an inclusive pro-poor housing strategy for the country. Findings show that the homeless poor have negative perceptions of the Stay-at-Home policy, which they see as being rather inimical to their survival. The study highlights lack of space and shelter as major reasons for their aversion to social distancing. Their reasons have serious implications for compliance to the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home policy as well as the spread curve of the virus. The study therefore recommends a review of the COVID-19 Regulation toward incorporating “Pro-Poor Housing Provisions” measures strictly for the homeless poor in the country. Strong collaboration between government and established institutions, such as Government-Church/Mosque strategy, is also recommended.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Kreshnik Aliaj ◽  
Genc Mekaj

In this era where international regional integration and processes to promote globalization are at the forefront of political issues on the world stage, every region of the world, whether sovereign or non-sovereign, is seeking in this globalization mechanism to promote its interests, be they cultural, political or economic. At various levels, Canada, like other territories around the world, is trying to play its game well in this international context, as well as placing its pawns on the world stage. Canada is distinguished for a difficult relationship with the multilateral world, renounced by a number of international councils. The Government of Canada should be more cautious about complicated multilateral processes and should have a good review of all the organizations it is part of.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 109-20
Author(s):  
Sukatin Sukatin ◽  
Fitri Nasution

The occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world has resulted in changes in various lives, including in the field of education. The government policy requiring studying from home, working from home and praying at home in the first week felt very sudden. And make the confusion of parents and teachers compounded by the lack of preparation for distance learning. As learning materials at home, assignments from student books are given. During this pandemic, more children will be at home, this is an effort made to break the chain of the spread of Covid, which has not yet subsided, even continues to grow. For the effectiveness of learning at this time the role of parents is very important, because the responsibility for education that is usually held by teachers while in school now completely shifts to both parents.Parents must accompany their children more in learning, be more attentive during learning, because when children are given freedom during unsupervised learning, not a few children take the opportunity to play online games, surf in cyberspace such as playing Facebook, Instagram, and other interesting applications, because in the learning process children are facilitated with cellphones plus a quota package that makes it easy to access whatever they want. For this reason, supervision and cooperation between parents and teachers is needed in continuing children's education. Keywords: parents, learning process assistance, distance, pandemic period


2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Jayakar ◽  
Chun Liu

Some 134 national broadband plans are now in place around the world. Opinions are divided regarding the role of government in broadband markets: should the government act as an ‘enabler’ or as the ‘rule-maker’? In this context, this article analyses the ambitious national broadband plans recently announced by China and India, two rising economic powerhouses. Traditionally, China's telecommunications development has been driven by investments from government-allied entities and a strong industrial policy, while India's approach has relied on government policy to create the framework for private investment with a limited range of subsidies on the supply side. We trace the antecedents of the different policy approaches adopted by the two countries towards their respective broadband sectors, compare and contrast the motivations that have driven them to draft the national broadband plans and evaluate the effectiveness of government policies and regulations.


Author(s):  
Farrah Hanifah

<p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris"><em>The Covid-19 pandemic has attacked the world since the beginning of 2020. The number of victims who have fallen is increasing, including in Indonesia. Seeing the increasingly fast and dangerous growth of the virus, the government urges to stay at home and not carry out daily activities as usual first, because avoiding associations and maintaining distance are one of the main ways to break the chain of the spread of Covid-19. However, limited access to activeness in various sectors is not the reason that the movement of the da'wah movement will stop, one of which is the preaching of the Al-Qur'an. The rapid development of technology, does not limit activities in the field, can still communicate, receive information via the internet, and various social media. So, the preaching of the Al-Qur'an can also be done using social media. There is no obstacle for a Muslim to memorize the Qur'an, so in the midst of a pandemic and busyness, Tahfidz online can become wasilah. Online Tahfidz is implemented by depositing memorization and muroja'ah via Whatsapp by sending voice notes, then it will be corrected by musyrifah who is the group admin. The method used in this research is qualitative by collecting data by observation, interviews, and questionnaires.</em></p><p class="16aJudulAbstrak"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p class="16bIsiAbstrak">Pandemi Covid-19 sudah menyerang dunia sejak awal tahun 2020. Angka korban yang berjatuhan semakin bertambah termasuk di Indonesia. Melihat pertumbuhan virus yang semakin cepat dan berbahaya, maka pemerintah menghimbau untuk tetap di rumah dan jangan melaksanakan kegiatan sehari-hari seperti biasa dahulu, sebab menghindari perkumpulan dan menjaga jarak adalah salah satu cara utama memutus mata rantai penyebaran Covid-19. Namun terbatasnya akses keaktifan diberbagai sektor tidak menjadi alasan roda pergerakan dakwah pun akan berhenti, salah satunya adalah dakwah Al-Qur’an. Perkembangan teknologi yang semakin pesat, tidak membatasi aktifitas di lapangan, tetap bisa berkomunikasi, menerima informasi melalui internet, dan berbagai media sosial. Maka dakwah Al-Qur’an pun dapat dilakukan dengan media sosial. Tak ada halangan bagi seorang muslim untuk menghafal Al-Qur’an, maka ditengah pandemi dan kesibukan, Tahfidz online dapat menjadi wasilah. Tahfidz online dilaksanakan dengan menyetorkan hafalan dan muroja’ah melalui Whatsapp dengan mengirimkan <em>voice note</em>, kemudian akan dikoreksi oleh musyrifah yang menjadi admin grup. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan pengumpulan data secara observasi, wawancara, dan kuisioner.</p>


Author(s):  
Muhammad Syuib

As one of the advanced countries in the world, Australia is putting technology as main instrument in dealing with daily activity, included in shopping. Therefore, nowadasys, many Australian rely on online shopping. It seems everything becomes easier when it is dealt online. People do not need to go outside their home and spend their money. What they can merely need is just sit at home and wait for the order. Thus, online shopping can be argued is more effective and efficient in this era. However, beyond this positive aspect, there are also some negative aspects. Among them is the quality of the product. Buyers (consumers) would never see goods or services directly. They only view the products or services through pictures or videos which are available on the website. The problem is, these images and videos might not be as good as reality. The vendors post the high quality pictures and videos on the site merely to attract consumers. Another issue is, difficult to communicate with the seller after buying the product. During the negotiation, it is easy to contact seller, but after the products are sold, majority vendors would “disappear”. Security payment is among on the risk list as well. Therefore, it is interesting to be researched, how the Australian law then protects its society from such risk. The Government claims that the Australian Competition and Consumer (ACC) Act 2010 has become law umbrella in protecting Australian in dealing with online shopping.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M Jewell

The following analysis utilizes data drawn from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) to examine the effects of age, sex, education, household type, and exposure to Indigenous[1] language inside the home and outside the home on the perceived importance of Indigenous language for Indigenous people living in urban centres across Canada. The results of the regression analysis indicate that “exposure to Indigenous language inside the home” and “exposure to Indigenous language outside the home” is directly related to how important Indigenous language is perceived by urban Indigenous peoples.[1] Statistics Canada and the Government of Canada utilize the term “Aboriginal” to identify First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. The author has chosen to use “Indigenous”, a term that communicates the quality of being original in land and place. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Ammar Saad ◽  
Zhang Rui Tao ◽  
Xia Ying

Wheat is the most crop have been subsidized by the government in Iraq, through subsidizing the input of the production (seed, pesticide, and machines), as well as, subsidize the output of the production through purchasing it from the producers at a high price compared to the world market price. The study aims to assess the competitive advantage of wheat production in Iraq through some of the measures derived from the policy analysis matrix. This study according to secondary data has published by Iraqi Ministry of Planning/Central Organization of Statistics and Information Technology 2018, for wheat production costs of cultivation season in Iraqi provinces 2017. The results of the study indicated that the coefficients measures show, there is a government subsidy for wheat output and that means, producers receive prices higher than international prices with the existence of this policy. While the comparative advantage indicators showed, the wheat crop in Iraq was achieved private profits due to government intervention in the inputs and outputs of production, nor competitive advantage in social prices. Where the policy reflection indexes/market distortions analysis shows, that the government policy for wheat production 2017 subsidized the producers on the consumer cost, where the local market price for wheat is higher than the price of wheat in the world market.


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