Ottawa – Canada’s leading digital literacy organization, Media Awareness Network (MNet), is sounding the alarm that Canada will continue to trail other countries in productivity and innovation unless a national plan for digital literacy is put in place.
We can either continue with our traditional ways of doing business and educating our students, workers, [...]
Canadian digital media innovation will be in the spotlight when leaders from around the world attend the G-8 and G-20 Summits June 25 – 27. The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) has attracted high-tech participants from CDMN-affiliated organizations across Canada to the Experience Canada marketing pavilion in downtown Toronto where they will showcase unique digital [...]
The British Columbia digital media tax credit was passed into law by the province’s legislature on Thursday.
The credit, effective September 1, offers digital media companies a 17.5 per cent tax credit for in-province labour costs.
Spurred by local gaming companies and other digital interests, hopes to revitalize a sagging industry that contributed more [...]
A bill to amend Canada’s Copyright Act is being read in the House of Commons today. Here’s a list of the reactions so far. A good source of conversation and reaction can be found on the #C32 Twitter hashtag.
The Bill itself can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32401372/Copyright-Bill-C32
“Flawed but fixable” (video) by Michael Geist
The Problem with Bill C-32 [...]
TORONTO and WATERLOO, ON, May 20: MaRS, a Toronto-based not-for-profit innovation centre, is the newest addition to the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN). The collaboration will enhance levels of technology commercialization and help develop successful companies in the digital media sector. The announcement follows on the Canada 3.0 2010 digital media forum in Stratford, held [...]
Fact: Canada’s laggardly Internet speeds and adoption rates put the country at a competitive disadvantage on both a social and entrepreneurial plane .
Canada’s broadband speed is 1/100 to 1/1000 slower than 20 major competitors
The Chair of the new i-Canada Alliance, William Hutchison, has issued a call for a Declaration of Support to yank this nation [...]
Answer our Canada 3.0 poll (you should see it on the right) and we’ll post your take right here.
So far:
“These conferences say little and accomplish little. Same issues as 10 years ago.”
“We need to act, and not just talk!”
“Actionable items for industry – you had the right people there in the room”
“Maybe. [...]
Hundreds of students participated in a ‘camp’ style forum during Canada 3.0. Their concepts and visions of the what Canada’s digital future look are fascinating — and they’d best be, as they are the first immersively digital generation, and represent tomorrow’s scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
Here’s a graphical synthesis of what they think the future holds.
The second Canada 3.0 conference is in the books. Over 2000 attendees, dozens of speakers and hundreds of press and students made for a cauldron of reaction, opinion, and chatter.
Below are links to videos from the event, audience reactions, and more. An archive of the Twitter conversation can be found here.
Penticton, B.C. and Waterloo Region, ON (May 4, 2010) – The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) today announced that the Okanagan Research and Innovation Centre (ORIC), a BC-based non-profit organization providing high-tech business incubator and accelerator programs and facilities, has joined the CDMN. The CDMN is working to connect organizations such as ORIC in a [...]
