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, [...]
The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN), the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), CANARIE, Compute Canada, and the Council of Canadian University CIOs (CUCCIO), recently presented this submission, entitled Canada’s Digital Environment for Research, Innovation and Education to the Government’s Digital Economy Strategy consultation.
Preface
The foundation for a prosperous, sustainable and growing digital economy is a broad [...]
With the conclusion of Canada 3.0, what is the state of Canada’s global competitiveness in terms of intellectual property?
“Mind that bird”, Taiwan and other outliers
According to OECD, China had been innovating its way past competitors in the same fashion as “Mind that Bird” at the 2009 Kentucky Derby.
The biggest outlier, however, was Taiwan.
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 [...]
The gathering of Canada’s digital media leaders in Stratford on May 10-11 2010 produced intense discussion about this country’s accomplishments, plans and capacity to expand our performance as a digital nation.
The collective ambition? Nothing less than to
Deloitte has outlined a number of changes to Digital Media and Film tax credits in provinces across the country.
They can be found on the Deloitte website here.
Wavefront, the community-based commercialization centre supporting the growth of Canada’s wireless and new media development companies, has joined the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN), the CDMN announced today.
The CDMN is working to connect organizations such as Wavefront in a nationwide network to collaborate and share digital media research, technology development and commercialization expertise.
“Becoming [...]
Join us for a conversation on Canada’s future. Canada 3.0 Interactions will bring together this country’s leading thinkers on emerging trends and future opportunities.
Brought to you by the University of Waterloo – Stratford Campus, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Canadian Digital Media Network, Canada 3.0 Interactions will include a series of discussions across the country as we [...]
