{"id":1772,"date":"2026-06-01T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:07:10","slug":"emma-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/emma-irwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1772\" data-postid=\"1772\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1772 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_yvmk361 tb_first tf_w\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_oe8j361 first\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tb_a350975\">\n\t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_z2mt975 first\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ih5y479   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<h3 class=\"module-title\">Digital Sovereignty in Canada: Why and How Higher Education Can Lead<\/h3>    <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n\t\t<p class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\">Digital sovereignty is the ability of a nation, organization, or individual to maintain control over their own digital data, infrastructure, and operations. It matters for security, safety, and compliance, and increasingly for managing the emerging risks that come with depending on tools, platforms, and jurisdictions outside our borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\">Sovereignty doesn&#8217;t mean isolation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\">This session makes the case that education sits at a critical intersection of human rights, data rights, consent, and security risk, and that this intersection makes Canadian post-secondary one of the most consequential places to show leadership. We&#8217;ll work through what each of those pillars looks like in practice, and where openness fits: as a concrete way to mitigate risk, and as a benchmark to hold proprietary vendors to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-font-claude-response-body gmail-break-words gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-leading-[1.7]\">You&#8217;ll leave with sharper vocabulary, a clearer sense of where Canadian education fits in a sovereignty conversation that&#8217;s moving fast, and a set of recommendations to bring back to your institution.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column col4-2 tb_b0qy975 last\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_d3u4147   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<h3 class=\"module-title\">Biography<\/h3>    <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n\t\t<p><span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">Emma Irwin<\/span> is founder and principal consultant at Open Practice Consulting. 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