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Creating a Unique Digital Identity
in Technology
Russell Fordham on March 25, 2010 at 10:30 pm Having everything stored digitally is convenient, but having dozens of different passwords and PINs is not. There are sites where you can manage all your logins, but having some sort of universal...
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World Leadership in Digital Health Care.
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Create a Government Department Responsible for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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A Copyright Model for the Digital Age
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Public-Private Partnerships To Deliver Nationwide 4G LTE Connectivity
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Implement temporary advertising tax credits to stimulate Canadian-based on-line video distribution
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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The rural and remote divide
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Why Canada needs Fiber-to-the-Home
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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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Creative Commons Licensing For All Publicly-Funded Cultural Content
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownBrian 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...
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Crowd-powered closed-captioning services
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownAlan 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...
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Digital Literacy for All Canadians
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownRussell 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...
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Network of Collaborative Innovation in Business Learning Environments (CIBLE)
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Digitizing Public Information for Universal Access
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownRussell 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...
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FUNDIND CRISIS
in Policy DevelopmentRKH on April 22, 2010 at 06:34 pm Film and Television drive culture. The Canadian Media Fund handles Television and it is administered by Telefilm Canada. Telefilm Canada handles film in Canada. Telefilm Canada could set up a...
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Provide Practical Help to Entrepreneurs by Subsidizing the Cost of Obtaining a Patent
in Policy DevelopmentCece on April 23, 2010 at 11:28 pm Canadians are inventive, but one obstacle to the advancement of this creative spirit is the financial hurdle of obtaining a patent. Obtaining a patent can cost roughly $20,000 per country in which...
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Revisiting Gaming’s Past to Create the Future
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownAndrew 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...
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Funding Programs to Address Gap Between Research Stage and VC/Angel Funding
in Policy DevelopmentRussell Fordham on April 19, 2010 at 05:00 pm To be a world leader, Canada must enable the kind of research and development in the digital space that takes place in large organizations as part of their product pipeline. However, this kind of...
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Tax Credits for Innovations that Lead to the Creation of Verifiable Intellectual Property Assets
in Policy Development
rtcdesigns on April 22, 2010 at 11:15 am For software start-ups, legal fees are one of the largest costs related to creating new products and services and commercializing new technologies. The costs involved in registering trademarks...
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Crowdsource for Capital
in Policy DevelopmentTrent Johnsen on April 24, 2010 at 04:49 pm Tax incentives for a broad base of Canadians to participate in early stage, entrepreneurial companies. Give friends and family investors (love capital) the same kind of tax advantages used for...
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Privacy and Personal Information
in Policy DevelopmentRussell Fordham on April 19, 2010 at 05:00 pm As we live more of our lives online, the issue of what is private and what is public becomes blurred. However, ultimately users should be the ones who determine to what extent their information is...
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The Commitment To Canada Scholarship
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownBrian 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...
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The Collage of Digital Transformation
in Policy Development
Michael Evask on April 22, 2010 at 10:23 am We need to build a place where we can talk, exhibit, workshop, develop policies, share Ideas, find funding, work and develop skills. Welcome to The Collage of Digital Transformation, I think if there...
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Digital innovation incubation project
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdownralphmercer 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...
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Support Canadian wireless innovation by funding research and development
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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...
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Leaders in Action
in Policy Developmentsmawani on April 20, 2010 at 01:28 pm Foster this type of culture by changing the way innovation is taught/fostered within the elementary/secondary schooling system. By adding in more leadership-type conferences, events, guest speakers...
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Declaration of Canada as friendly to communications infrastructure investment
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownMark 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...
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Launch a UC Cloud innovation program
in ConnectivityNeil 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.
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Canadian Banks Take Prominent Role in Mobile Payment Development
in ConnectivityRussell 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...
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Connecting Communities Through Secure Digital Forums
in ConnectivityAndrew 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...
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Infrastructure Research with Universities IT Networks as Prototypes
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownLucy 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...
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Heal the Burdened Power Grid with a Smart Grid
in ConnectivityLucy 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...
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Recreate the Chapleau Project in Towns Across Canada
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownRussell 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...
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Directing economic growth by automating the collection of transaction taxes - GST/HST/PST
in Connectivity
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...
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Brand: Made In Canada
in Media ProductionStrivan on April 11, 2010 at 01:14 pm Mission: Show to the World the significance of Canada's role in the Digital Economy
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Creating a Universal iTunes Store
in Media ProductionJerry Brown on April 5, 2010 at 05:25 pm One of the great things about digital is the ability for companies to get closer to their customers to gain a better understanding of their wants and needs and then develop creative products or...
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Industry Standards for Mobile Phones
in Media ProductionRussell Fordham on April 6, 2010 at 07:40 am For several years, the expectation has been that mobile will become the new mass media. High penetration of users and deep device integration in people’s lives, the ideas was that it will join...
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Long-Life-Education System (LLE)
in EducationStrivan on April 5, 2010 at 08:43 pm Digital Economy operates services rather than products. Current education is the product. You invested time and money and you have received the diploma - product. After than, nobody care about you...
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It’s An App World
in Media ProductionMichael Evask on April 6, 2010 at 01:51 pm Its time for Canada to realize app developers will distribute content from all sectors. Or should I say it is time for all sectors to start thinking as app developers. Apps have the ability to...
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iStockMedia :-) ... leverage the iStockphoto micropayment crowdsourcing system
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownSharon 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...
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One net, one point, one device.
in Media Productiondsdf on April 6, 2010 at 02:55 pm One net. Skynet. No, really - and AI system to ominvioiusly store, serve and protect its content. Affiliatied and with traceable verification that promotes responsible citizenship. Users can...
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If The Media Are The Messages, Let's Teach People How To Read Them.
in EducationBrian Alkerton on April 5, 2010 at 08:15 pm We live in a time of unparalleled technological change, and that change only accelerates with each passing year. Any commitment to ensure that our students are trained on the latest and greatest...
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Bridging the Gap between Business and Education Using a Web 2.0 Solution
in Canada's Digital Compass Showdown
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.
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Open Capital Network
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scorgie on March 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm The biggest barrier to entry for Canadians is not education or skill but rather capital investment opportunities for startups. Compared to the U.S. Canada has very little in the way of Venture...
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Create Canadian Institutes of ICT
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownMark 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...
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New Business Models Based on Partnerships
in Media ProductionRussell Fordham on April 6, 2010 at 07:32 am The good news for media developers and content produces is that the demand for content is not decreasing, it is in fact increasing. Meeting this demand for content is a challenge for media companies...
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Building next generation 5G wireless network
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownBill 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...
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Digital Media Taxi Meter
in Technologymeded on March 26, 2010 at 08:08 am Like water, like hydro electricity - and almost as valuable - digital media needs a meter. Some device or service that measures digital media content consumption bit by bit. It tracks the who, how...
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Mobile applications
in TechnologyChad Jones on March 28, 2010 at 04:57 pm Mobile applications
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Curriculum Development to Foster Digital Entrepreneurs
in EducationRussell Fordham on April 1, 2010 at 01:32 pm Over the last few years, the practice of “design thinking” has evolved as an important discipline, using the concepts of problem solving used by designers to create more effective businesses...
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Ensure public K-12 is fostering knowledge-based economy skills
in Education
LynnSutherland on April 4, 2010 at 12:38 pm Most Canadian citizens receive the foundations of their education in the public K-12 system. This early education sets up the interests, expectations, initiatives and goals of the students. We must...
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Evolving Liberal Arts Education into Digital Arts
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownRussell 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...
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Create a Canadian 'Design Ignites Change' initiative
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownNeil 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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Virtual Learning Environments and ELearning to Build Strong Communities
in EducationAndrew Light on March 29, 2010 at 12:00 pm The digital world connects people from all over the world instantaneously to communicate and share ideas. At the same time, education has often been named as a key factor in achieving success and...
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Aggressively Update Technical Curricula
in Education
Mike Barnlund on April 2, 2010 at 02:49 pm In my opinion, the biggest failing in tech education is simply the irrelevance of much of the skills a student acquires in university/college by the time they graduate and enter the work force.
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Knoweldge Integration - the key is putting it all together
in Education
Gordon ValaWebb on April 1, 2010 at 11:48 am Large and complex problems (or opportunities) require people from many different technical and functional areas to share their knowledge and to be able to work effectively together.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know
in EducationDavid Jacobson on April 1, 2010 at 07:05 am The title, a quotation from D J Boorstin in the 1960s or early 1970s tells us that becoming educated requires an open mind willing to listen, think about things and apply new-found knowledge. Albert...
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Imagination Olympics
in Educationdsdf on April 1, 2010 at 06:10 am The X games for the minds by discipline and age - whether creative in terms of art, science or business. A venue for practicing of ideas, competition and avenue of exposure. Growth and...
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Digital innovation incubation project
in Technologyralphmercer on March 25, 2010 at 07:48 am 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...
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Unlocking and Sharing "Tacit Knowledge" in Business
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownDavid 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...
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Program to Develop the "Mobile Cloud" ICT sector
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownBarry 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...
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Open Applications on RIM push technology
in Technology
Claudia Moore on March 17, 2010 at 03:39 pm Beyond the addictive performance of RIM's Blackberries is a push message system that holds possibility far beyond the real-time reliable email to BB subscribers as they roam. What about opening up...
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Canada Plays Host to International Cloud Infrastructure Powered by Natural Resources
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownAndrew 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...
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Rapid Integration of Skills & Knowledge (RISK) and The Knowledge Garden
in TechnologyJim Kinney on March 24, 2010 at 08:16 am Adaptation to rapidly emerging/obsolescing technological environments by abandoning traditional hierarchal modes of teaching in favour of leveraging the latent, collective abilities of an entire...
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National Digital Service Network
in ConnectivityStrivan 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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Transparency and Open Government
in Policy DevelopmentStrivan on April 25, 2010 at 07:42 pm Mission: Government efficiency
Vision: Government harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Any... -
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Transform the Content Encounter
in Media ProductionNeil McEvoy on April 7, 2010 at 07:14 am The TM Forum (tmforum.org) is the global forum for telco, cable and mobile service providers, and the 'Content Encounter' program is their initiative to engineer a cross-platform digital media supply...
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Content in Beta Testing
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownKristian 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...
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Whitespace broadband for remote and northern communities
in Canada's Digital Compass ShowdownStuartJack 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...
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Micro and macro environment ecosystems
in Connectivityr0ss on April 18, 2010 at 06:36 pm We need to build micro and macro environment ecosystems tie together through project micro funding.
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ICSP 2.0 - Framework for a Green Innovation Nation
in Policy DevelopmentNeil McEvoy on April 22, 2010 at 03:33 am The ICSP (Integrated Community Sustainability Plan) is an existing government program directed at 'Green investments', that could be easily enhanced into an overall "Innovation Nation" program.
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Policy Establshing Entrepreneurship Education in High School, College, & Universities
in Policy Developmentdmrobic on April 23, 2010 at 11:28 am Michael Robichaud – I suggest that Canadian Federal and Provincial governments establish a Policy of formally supporting Entrepreneurship Education in high schools colleges and universities...