MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Opata Language, System On A Chip, Canadian Content
Document Summary
Policy as a set of guiding ideas and practices. Fiscal, technological, and philosophical: the purpose of national communications security: To protect financial data, etc: communications policy is a by-product of global contact between peoples, companies, and governments, policy is about balancing different interests, examples of early international communications agreements: International telegraph convention, 1865: recognition of intellectual property. Began with the intervention of the printing press. Early copyright laws were only national in scope (foreign works not protected). Berne convention (1886) was the first international agreement: preventing media imperialism. Unesco: a forum for discussion of communication issues. Wto: a forum for discussion of economic issues. The canadian public in public policy formation: the formation of communication policy is a balancing act between individual and collective needs, and between universal principles and national and regional exigencies, challenges to public policy formation in canada:
