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Edmonton tech experts build low-cost network of sensors, make data accessible to residents
How Okotoks became North America’s role-model for water consumption
Okotoks water infrastructure was wearing out and the city favoured a water infrastructure modernization project to revamp the way it manages its supply.3 Manitoba municipalities create their own fibre optic internet service
In Southwestern Manitoba, communities’ low debit internet resulted in poor quality phone calls and almost impossible to stream videos.Article
Animikii Raises $1M to Scale Social Impact Through Indigenous Technology
Largest investment of its kind into an Indigenous technology social enterprise. Investment led by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners with additional financing from BDC.
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Group will use $10M prize to teach tech skills across Nunavut
Pinnguaq partnership to create a network of makerspace hubs in communities.
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Indigenous Innovation
The Indigenous Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICIE) aims to spark an eventual Indigenous business and cultural district: the first of its kind in Canada.
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5 Questions Canadian Businesses Need To Ask About The Internet Of Things
To help understand the impact IoT can have on their industries, here are five questions that every Canadian business should be asking.
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How Canada got so smart on artificial intelligence
When the robots take over, lots of strange things are going to happen. Possibly the strangest thing of all will be where the robots will be invented. High on the list of likely birthplaces is Toronto.
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We Are Already Experiencing The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence
The more information the computer is given, the better it can learn.It's no coincidence that Facebook suggests which friends to tag in photos, or Amazon recommends certain products.
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Monetizing Smart Cities: Framing the debate
A debate is developing in Canada about who will control and profit from the massive volume of data generated by smart cities in the future. The stakes are high for two reasons: this data holds large financial value and it will have a huge impact on citizen life in cities.
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Winners announcement
The four winners of the Canadian Smart Cities Challenge were announced on May 14, 2019 in Ottawa.
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Animikii Raises $1M to Scale Social Impact Through Indigenous Technology
Largest investment of its kind into an Indigenous technology social enterprise. Investment led by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners with additional financing from BDC.
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Without a critical approach to big data it risks becoming an increasingly sophisticated paradigm for coercion
A central issue in knowledge creation today is the pervasiveness of quantification. The ability to quantify has become so embedded in the discourse of “innovative knowledge production” as to constitute an epistemic virtue.
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How will Ottawa build a successful digital government?
If the government of Canada is going to reimagine its service relationship with citizens, it has to make key changes to how the public service works.
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City of Markham continues its digital strategy with Your Voice Markham
The online engagement platform is a new avenue for the city to unveil project plans as well as for citizens to voice their opinions and ideas for projects, submitting opinions and ideas to be viewed publicly.
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How Can Smart Cities Improve the Health and Wellness of Citizens?
As the urban population is getting older, health management is a key issue for smart cities in the future. Proactively addressing health and wellness issues can be done using Smart Cities Solutions.
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Smart Cities Improve The Health Of Their Citizens
This article intends to explore two questions: how can Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and systems engineering enable people to address the area of health in cities and what are the business implications of these?
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How Smart Cities are Making their Citizens Healthier
If the power of technology in the transformation of transportation and infrastructure systems in cities is a given, it can also tackle health and environmental challenges associated with city living.
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Smart cities can’t exist while there’s a digital divide
How digital inclusion has to be placed at the center of smart cities strategies. Providing equal access to service and digital tools is the solution to benefiting all citizens and making the smart city a truly equitable place.
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A city is not a computer
Brain as computer VS city as computer. Urban intelligence involves experience, observation, sensory engagement. We need new models for thinking about cities that do not compute.
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Artificial Intelligence at the service of smart cities v2.0
How conversational artificial intelligence platforms will make cities smarter? This article explores the idea of integrating these new technologies in an ethical way, in order to improve and simplify the life of citizens.
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I Commute from the Suburbs. Is Anyone Thinking of Folks Like Me?
Transit service has to be thought through as cities expand.
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Solving the mobility puzzle: Portland tests analysis tool based on cell phone data
Using data in order to know how people actually move around the city.
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How Washington DC’s ridesharing saves money, reduces congestion
A new ridesharing program set up by the Washington Department of Public Works (DPW) aims to reduce the number of cars on the roads.
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