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.
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).
USD 9.9 million (CAD 13.4 million)
| Name of partner | Type of entity |
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Privy Council Office
| Public Sector
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Democratic Institutions
| Public Sector
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Global Affairs Canada
| Public Sector
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
| Public Sector
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