Coalition for Information Ecosystem Resilience
Building collaboration for information ecosystem monitoring and response during the next federal election
About Us
The Coalition for Canadian Information Ecosystem Resilience is designed as a loose, collaborative network anchored by the Media Ecosystem Observatory, aimed at safeguarding Canada's information ecosystem for the upcoming Canadian election and potentially beyond. The coalition aims to foster resilience by minimizing disruptions, rapidly responding to instability, and enhancing the ecosystem's adaptability and learning capacity. Recognizing information manipulation as a primary threat to Canadian democracy, the coalition focuses on improving transparency, information literacy, and public citizen resilience during this critical moment.
Our Purpose
To enable and build a resilient information ecosystem that is able to:
Minimize the likelihood of disruption (contain)
Bounce back from moments of instability,
Reorganize, adapt to and learn from change (bounce forward)
Our Function
These four functions help enable and build characteristics of resilience:
01
MONITOR & DETECT
Identify important ecosystem patterns, threats, and incidents
02
RESPOND
Distributed response to incidents in a variety of ways
03
AMPLIFY
Share the work of others to amplify the message and broaden the audience
04
EDUCATE & BUILD AWARENESS
Share educational, awareness-raising messaging and content to build public capacity to detect, understand and respond to information ecosystem threats
Our Principles
-
Strive to conduct work that minimizes harm to the individuals and organizations involved in the research, and makes a positive impact on the ecosystem itself i.e., conduct research aimed to create net-positive outcomes (minimizing downstream risk).
-
Commitment to open and transparent communication, clear criteria for decisions, data sharing, and operational clarity.
-
Maintain strict political neutrality, ensuring coalition activities and outputs are objective and unbiased.
-
Heavy focus on acknowledgement of contributions and celebrating collaborative successes without transferring any intellectual property or authorship rights; strong emphasis on relationship building within and external to Canada.
-
Continuous communication and revision on strategies across functions and potential updates to approach.
-
Leverage, share and/or empower the expertise and work produced by others.
