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The eLab was created in 1997 by Dr. Liss Jeffrey and her team in association with the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. Now independent, the eLab is a public interest think tank and new media and policy incubator. eLab projects meet a public interest mission and are based on a philosophy of access, techno-cultural innovation (visionary pragmatism), and participant design.

Please visit our current projects by clicking on the hot links featured below.

Find out about our latest projects in development:

• The McLuhan global research network web site - the site of sites for all things McLuhan. New InSound project (by Dave Harkness) launched on July 26, 2003. Monday night McLuhan seminar coming this fall - graduate seminar. Understanding McLuhan and Media starts September 8th. Serious auditors welcome.
  
  The Association of Internet Researchers 2003 conference held a successful conference in Toronto October 16 - 19th, 2003. Theme this year was "Broadening the Band." This meeting was most interesting, and eLab members and our partners in the McLuhan global research network are now starting up a new group called the Association of Media Ecology North, or AMEN eh? as a result of our conviction that a core of intellectual insight and potential exists in the Media Ecology Association. We hope to convene the 2006 Media Ecology conference here in Toronto. If you would like to see the searchable web site that we created for the Aoir conference Toronto 2003, please go here. www.ecommons.net/aoir.



• A Dialogue on Foreign Policy / Dialogue sur la politique étrangère: working in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the byDesign-eLab took the lead in a civil society partnership to develop this, the first national online consultation to involve citizens in shaping foreign policy. Email your comments to admin@foreign-policy-dialogue.ca, download Minister Bill Graham's Dialogue background paper, and answer the questions, or join the online forums to discuss your views with your fellow citizens



• The Electronic Commons: A public community learning network / Agora Électronique: Un réseau public. A pilot project with HRDC, Community Learning Network, to shift the eLab's work on the Electronic Commons from experiment to sustainable development of public space.

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