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Access and analyze trusted COVID-19 (Coronavirus) global data
With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 respiratory illness around the world, data and facts are essential for public understanding and an organized response.
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Newly-launched COVID-19 Monitor reveals Canadians largely heeding public health advice, though confidence in government response varies
Data scientists at Vox Pop Labs have launched the COVID-19 Monitor.
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World Health Organization, Facebook, Microsoft team up in COVID-19 hackathon
#BuildforCOVID19 focuses on the development of technology of value during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Lake research video translated into Ojibway to help promote language as well as science
Emma Bruyere, a grade 9 student narrates Ojibway version of Experimental Lakes Area video on mercury research and hopes to spread awareness about her language.
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Using canoes and virtual reality, local project explores Indigenous traditions
A project funded by the provost's Grand Challenges Research brings Indigenous communities together while advancing science and technology.
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Civic-Indigenous 7.0
On October 9, 2019, 16 people from diverse expertises and worldviews gathered in Toronto to explore socio-ecological pathways that weave civic and Indigenous imaginations to better support current and future generations.
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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.In New Brunswick, Open Data Keeps the River on Watch
In New-Brunswick, a group of civic tech leaders created an app to monitor and forecast river levels in their province.Image: Aerial view of green rooves
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Small town near Toronto plans to transform into a city of the future
Innisfil, a small town roughly 60 km north of Toronto is set to become home to futuristic city called the Orbit.
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Lesson from a phone jack
Something as small as a phone jack can provide a wealth of wisdom as how to plan technology infrastructure. As this kind of framework tend to stick around for a very long time, one has to carefully plan its deployment.
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The Planet Needs a New Internet
Internet is not necessarily the first thing we think about when it comes to sustainability, yet its impact is wider than we realize.
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City dilemma: Making smart tech work citywide with limited funds
Cities and tech companies are eager to make the leap to larger-scale smart-city technology projects. But can they work with limited funds?
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Indigenous Women in Tech
Most of the time Indigenous women in the tech industry are the only woman in the room and almost always the only Indigenous woman. As they are under-represented in the tech industry Animikii made a list of women who are changing the field.
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Circularity in cities is about equity, too
Getting to design cities of the future will go through equity thinking too. Sharing could be the key to a more climate friendly and inclusive city growth.
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Why open standards are fundamental to deploying data for smart city services
In order to improve the citizens’ quality of life smart cities will have to be built in an open and standardised way.
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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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What Does The Next Generation Of Smart Cities Look Like?
How do we build a world ready for the future, today? Smart cities are an emerging solution to this question.
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Resilient Cities, Post COVID-19
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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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Inuit Food Insecurity in Canada
Addressing food insecurity in Inuit communities is a complex challenge.
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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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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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Learning uninterrupted
As technology is making its way in the classroom, networks have to allow learning to go uninterrupted.
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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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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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Looking for the next battery breakthrough? Think small
As more and more interest is shown in Electric Vehicles (EVs) the full potential of the technology is not quite there yet. A battery still takes an hour to recharge, but this could change in the near future.
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How self-driving cars will make our cities more charming
As autonomous vehicles are getting a reality, how will they shape our cities ?
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Fighting extreme heat in cities with urban design
To adapt to climate change, we need to build cities like we did in the past – moving toward a climate-responsive urban design, centered on people.
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Tree cover is not enough: Keeping cities cool calls for a commons-based climate response
With climate change, urban heat is a major issue. Trees are usually presented as the solution, but are they?
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How AI and data turn city water management from an art to a science
More cities are looking to drones and other equipment for preventive maintenance, but it is uphill work in a sector that has traditionally resisted change.
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The ‘parasitic’ homes that could change cities
As urban centres face housing shortages and skyrocketing prices, parasitic structures could open the door to a whole new way of living in cities.
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Emotional response to city design could guide urban planning
Scenario-testing models are being built to help urban planners and architects to see the impact of their designs.
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Can a city solve homelessness with an app?
As cities deploy community-facing apps to alleviate homelessness, questions linger around who the tech is intended to benefit.
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The Future (of City Building) is Female
Women are now more than ever leading, collaborating and driving change in their communities. Here are seven women who are inspiring us.
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Disruption is opportunity: Innovative ideas & Unexpected solutions from across Canada during COVID-19
When some doors close, others open.
Read about the innovative ideas & Unexpected solutions from across Canada during COVID-19
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