Since 1983, the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology has conducted research and graduate teaching at the University of Toronto, in the tradition of Canada's best-known communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980).

During the 1990s, Program director Derrick de Kerckhove and associate director Liss Jeffrey have applied McLuhan's insights to current policy questions.

Now at the Program, designers and researchers work together to innovate useful tools for the practice of digital democracy. Our home base is a virtual E-Lab located in the antique Coach House dedicated to McLuhan by the U. of T. Under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey, the originator of the Canada by Design visionary speaker series, the McLuhan E-Lab team, on behalf of the CRTC will host and moderate the CRTC's first web-based consultation.

The CRTC has initiated and funded the newmedia-forum with additional support from the McLuhan program.

The McLuhan Program wishes to thank sustaining sponsor Eckart Wintzen, CEO of Ex'tent, in the Netherlands. Our server has been generously donated by Dell Canada, and is running Red Hat Linux operating system.