What initiatives in infrastructure, networks and access could position Canada to lead a digital economy?
Solutions we're looking for: The networks that connect business and people including physical hardware and software that distribute, create, store, and share data.
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Public-Private Partnerships To Deliver Nationwide 4G LTE Connectivity
Brian Alkerton on April 13, 2010 at 11:42 pm Canada runs the risk of lagging behind other nations in the information age if we fail to have the infrastructure to deliver fast internet connections to all citizens. Government should enter into... more
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Declaration of Canada as friendly to communications infrastructure investment
Mark Goldberg on April 13, 2010 at 04:44 pm Governments at all levels need to take steps to stimulate, encourage and reward investment in communications infrastructure. This requires changes in tax policy, government purchasing, zoning and... more
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Infrastructure Research with Universities IT Networks as Prototypes
Lucy Eskedjian on April 13, 2010 at 10:24 am Universities often share resources with another to tackle large scale computing efforts in areas such as physics or engineering for high performance data crunching. Another resource that could be... more
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Digitizing Public Information for Universal Access
Russell Fordham on April 13, 2010 at 09:29 am If connectivity at its core is about linking people together, than programs to digitize government or public information and therefore giving universal access to Canadians could be an opportunity for... more
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Recreate the Chapleau Project in Towns Across Canada
Russell Fordham on April 13, 2010 at 09:17 am Several years ago a plan to make the town of Chapleau, Ontario into a state of the art connected city was conceived. For various reasons, the experiment is no longer being carried out in Chapleau... more
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Connecting Communities Through Secure Digital Forums
Andrew Light on April 15, 2010 at 08:07 am Electronic commerce has always suffered through the lack of trust & integrity (and anonymity) in verifying who you’re trading with. Despite this, trading through sites like ebay and Kijiji still... more
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Launch a UC Cloud innovation program
Neil McEvoy on April 15, 2010 at 03:55 am Do you see Clouds everywhere? Me too, and one great way to capitalize on growth markets like this is to define and specialize in a specific niche within it.
How UC (Unified... more -
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Heal the Burdened Power Grid with a Smart Grid
Lucy Eskedjian on April 13, 2010 at 10:32 am Canada's hydroelectrical system is aging and for all of those who experienced the big blackout several years ago, not having a stable and reliable power resource is now more top of mind than ever... more
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Canadian Banks Take Prominent Role in Mobile Payment Development
Russell Fordham on April 13, 2010 at 09:10 am When we shifted much of our banking online, from bill payments to account statements, banks took the lead in developing the services and security needed to make this what we now consider to be a... more
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National Digital Service Network
Strivan on April 19, 2010 at 02:30 pm To lead the Digital Economy Canada has to build the nationwide telecommunication infrastructure that will be capable to provide such digital services as:
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Micro and macro environment ecosystems
r0ss on April 18, 2010 at 06:36 pm We need to build micro and macro environment ecosystems tie together through project micro funding.
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking... more -
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Directing economic growth by automating the collection of transaction taxes - GST/HST/PST
William Olders on April 13, 2010 at 10:06 am The OnePassTax service innovation automates the collection of all transaction taxes (GST, PST, Excise, Local, Import and Export). The instant funds transfer from buyer-to-seller; transaction taxes... more
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Whitespace broadband for remote and northern communities
StuartJack on April 19, 2010 at 12:04 pm Countless Canadian communities lack sufficient access to broadband services across the country. The social and economic costs are high, resulting in socially excluded communities and disadvantaged... more
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| Started: | April 13, 2010 |
| Ends: | April 20, 2010 |
panel
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Barbara Bailie Director, Interactive Astral Media -
Jacob Glick Canada Policy Counsel, Google Inc. -
Jerry Brown Associate Partner in the Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP -
Mike Kirkup Director, Developer Relations at Research in Motion (BlackBerry) -
Olivier Vincent President, and CEO of Canpages and Ziplocal