The votes are in. Three winning ideas chosen!
You determined which three finalist ideas in connectivity, technology, education, policy development and media production provide Canada its best shot at leading in a global digital economy.
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World Leadership in Digital Health Care.
Brady Gilchrist on March 28, 2010 at 03:01 pm Modern big ideas are those that can turn into multi billion dollar industries and have hundreds of millions of potential customers. Strategic initiatives should be those that are transformational to... more
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Digital Literacy for All Canadians
Russell Fordham on April 1, 2010 at 11:14 am Just as reading and writing is seen as key to development and empowerment of citizens, there needs to be a focus on ensuring that Canadians of all ages are digitally literate. The focus of many... more
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Implement temporary advertising tax credits to stimulate Canadian-based on-line video distribution
Alan Sawyer on April 26, 2010 at 08:18 am Canadian's have few choices available to them for online content. Many turn their attention south of the border to get the content they want (and often have to disguise their geographic location to... more
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Create a Government Department Responsible for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
David Cooper on April 23, 2010 at 01:32 pm Currently it is not clear who is responsible within the Government of Canada for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. There are lots of elements that are required, such as having targets... more
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Creative Commons Licensing For All Publicly-Funded Cultural Content
Brian Alkerton on April 7, 2010 at 05:42 pm Any cultural content created with the assistance of public funding should be licensed in such a way that people who wish to remix, reuse, and build upon it to create new cultural works can do so... more
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The rural and remote divide
Mark Goldberg on March 24, 2010 at 01:06 pm A significant proportion of Canada's geography is inhabited with population densities that cannot economically support conventional wireline broadband connectivity, let alone more advanced speeds... more
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Network of Collaborative Innovation in Business Learning Environments (CIBLE)
Sharon M McIntyre on April 3, 2010 at 05:32 pm Build a network of Collaborative Innovation in Business Learning Environments (CIBLE) for undergraduates in Canada's post-secondary institutions. Today, undergraduate students (and often... more
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A Copyright Model for the Digital Age
Jerry Brown on April 19, 2010 at 05:00 pm If the true spirit of copyright is that artists and creators are entitled to be compensated for their work, digital distribution methods are forcing a new way to carry it out effectively. The new... more
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The Commitment To Canada Scholarship
Brian Alkerton on April 22, 2010 at 10:45 pm In order to combat the brain drain, offer grants to further subsidize the education of those students willing to make a commitment to stay in-province or in-country for a set number of years after... 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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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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Create Canadian Institutes of ICT
Mark Goldberg on March 31, 2010 at 03:56 pm Measured against its peers, Canada has historically had among the lowest number of PhD graduates per 100,000 population: in many cases, this may be because our top graduate students head abroad to... more
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iStockMedia :-) ... leverage the iStockphoto micropayment crowdsourcing system
Sharon M McIntyre on April 7, 2010 at 12:34 am Calgary's iStockphoto (now owned by Getty, but still HQ'd in Calgary) is the world's biggest supplier of crowd-supplied images (royalty-free stock). But (aside from photo sales) their biz model and... more
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Crowd-powered closed-captioning services
Alan Sawyer on April 9, 2010 at 04:01 pm Much content is inaccessible to the hearing impaired and when closed-captioning does exist, the quality is often poor. That's true of professionally produced content but even more so for the growing... more
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Canada Plays Host to International Cloud Infrastructure Powered by Natural Resources
Andrew Light on March 17, 2010 at 05:00 pm As cloud computing becomes the norm, all the digital data being transmitted needs a home, typically massive data servers. By combining Canada's unique wealth of resources including land and... more
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Evolving Liberal Arts Education into Digital Arts
Russell Fordham on March 31, 2010 at 03:13 pm The traditional liberal arts education was designed around the idea of giving post secondary education a breadth of knowledge and analytical skills in a variety of fields. As digital has evolved... more
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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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Content in Beta Testing
Kristian Roberts Nordicity on April 12, 2010 at 03:49 pm One of the newest and most successful business models in the digital world is that of the social/online games producer. Gamemakers Zygna and Playfish may continue to war between themselves - but... more
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Why Canada needs Fiber-to-the-Home
Peter Kallai Enablence on March 29, 2010 at 09:54 am Canada needs a broadband program that provides funds and government incentives similar to what exists in the U.S. to bring advanced broadband services to rural and small communities.
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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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Revisiting Gaming’s Past to Create the Future
Andrew Light on April 5, 2010 at 05:34 pm In the early PC era, many video games were focused on problem solving or strategy skills with an underlying focus on educational skills. In the last few years gaming applications that serve an... more
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Support Canadian wireless innovation by funding research and development
Sarah Blue on March 19, 2010 at 09:55 am Canada needs to focus on innovation in wireless. Whether it is infrastructure (will we get left behind in the race to LTE?), handsets, applications or carrier costs, we should look at fostering... more
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Building next generation 5G wireless network
Bill St Arnaud on March 19, 2010 at 09:40 am Wireless network operators are facing a capacity crunch because of new data demands on wireless networks. Many operators and equipment suppliers are talking about the need for mobile data offload... 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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Bridging the Gap between Business and Education Using a Web 2.0 Solution
Chandra Clarke on April 2, 2010 at 03:09 pm There's a huge gap between what academia thinks the economy needs, the quality of what schools produce, and what business actually needs.
We need a website that a) scrapes job ad... more -
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Unlocking and Sharing "Tacit Knowledge" in Business
David Jacobson on March 25, 2010 at 09:19 am In 1967, Michael Polanyi, distinguished philosopher and scientist famously remarked, "we know more than we can tell" or, put a little differently, we know more than we know how to tell. He was... 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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Digital innovation incubation project
ralphmercer on April 19, 2010 at 05:00 pm Goal is to maximize the creative fusion of ideas and digital technology to enhance the collective Canadian community. Establish a fund and events that show case the creative entrepreneurs and social... more
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Create a Canadian 'Design Ignites Change' initiative
Neil McEvoy on March 30, 2010 at 05:37 am Design Ignites Change is a US-based initiative for involving youth in more social activism, including 'School: By Design'. I'd propose creating a Canadian version with the same principles.
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Program to Develop the "Mobile Cloud" ICT sector
Barry Gander on March 27, 2010 at 08:56 am The Cloud is the next stage in the evolution of the Internet. The Cloud makes information available to a mass market. By using remote server capabilities to deliver information, the Cloud is “the... more
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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