December 24, 2024 - Some countries—such as Israel and the United States—started investing substantial public funds into biodigital research and development as well as biomanufacturing sectors, after identifying them as strategically important for sustainable growth and future economic competitiveness.

the key pillars of the biodigital convergence and aims to provide · a comprehensive understanding of the biodigital landscape ... We hope you find this work insightful and thought-provoking. By · reflecting on what might happen, we can support people in Canada · and decision-makers in considering which futures we want and ... The biodigital innovation space is changing quickly. Some countries—such as Israel ...

1 week ago - Global Context: While Israel focuses ... in bio-convergence, Canada is positioning itself to shape the regulatory and ethical landscape that will govern this merging of digital and biological systems globally....

February 22, 2024 - This is the first time Canada is leading an SEG. “Biodigital convergence is more than a technological change,” says Van der Elst. “It may transform economic and trade models, and industries such as manufacturing, health care, and agriculture. It could transform the way we understand ourselves and cause us to redefine what we consider human.

March 7, 2026 - Ethical and societal challenges ...k/mt/document/EPRS_STU(2022)729543 · A revolutionary cell programming platform based on the targeted nano-delivery of a transposon gene editing system ......

July 16, 2026 - The testimony points to a global operation involving not just Canada but other major nations like the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, and China. MacKillop highlights that powerful stakeholders and companies, such as Amazon, ...

But we may be on the cusp of another disruption of similar magnitude. Digital technologies and biological systems are beginning to combine and merge in ways that could be profoundly disruptive to our assumptions about society, the economy, and our bodies. We call this the biodigital convergence.

"In this initial paper, we define and explore biodigital convergence – why it is important to explore now, its characteristics, what new capabilities could arise from it, and some initial policy implications"--Foreword, page 5. Permanent link to this Catalogue record: publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.881083&sl=0 ... To request an alternate format of a publication, complete the Government of Canada ...

This report explores change drivers and how biodigital convergence could transform five economic sectors and areas of life.

July 29, 2021 - NARRATOR: Digital technologies and biological systems are beginning to combine and merge in ways that could be profoundly disruptive to our assumptions about society, the economy, and our bodies. We call this the biodigital convergence.

Convergence: this unified ecosystem allows us to answer questions, resolve problems and build things that isolated disciplinary capabilities cannot. Divergence: this creates new pathways, opportunities, competencies, knowledge, technologies and applications. Policy Horizons Canada (2020) outlines three main ways that biodigital convergence is emerging.

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Early movers seized opportunities, perceived challenges, and initiated deft policies that have provided benefits for decades. Now could be the time to make similar investments and make thoughtful decisions to guide Canada through the beginning of a biodigital convergence.

It is spurring biodigital innovations such as nearly real-time biosurveillance of virus spread and mutations; virus tracking via smartphone; and messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine development at unprecedented speed. Biodigital convergence, the merging of biological systems and digital ...

"Biological and digital systems are coming together in profound ways, creating a new domain called the biodigital convergence. Digital technology and living things are increasingly able to communicate and interact with each other. Digital technology can be embedded into living organisms, and ...

Our article begins with a discussion of the biodigital convergence and synthetic biology, we then introduce some useful orienting concepts from Haudenosaunee traditional teachings, and we finish with some thoughts on the importance of Indigenous philosophy for adapting to the biodigital convergence. New developments in digital technologies and our understanding of biological systems have led to interesting developments at the blurred border between the digital information and biology domains. Peters et al. (2021) identify the dialectic connection that positions “biology as digital information, and digital information as biology” (p. 370). This reciprocal relationship is taken up by Policy Horizons Canada, a federal government organization that employs foresight to inform the development of adaptive policies and programs in anticipation of increasing uncertainty.

May 18, 2023 - https://horizons.gc.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/ We are witnessing scientists, being financed by the big corporations, { Corporation of Canada included}, playing the role of creator for the different purpose of Enslaving all humanity. Free will which is the only limitation to total control must be destroyed.

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March 15, 2023 - This report was produced by Policy Horizons Canada. See other reports here. Full report PDF: https://horizons.gc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Biodigital-Convergence-with-Links-Final-02062020.pdf (original not found, changed link to web archive)