The Canadian federal government launched the Smart Cities Challenge in 2017 to award up to $50 million to municipal governments that are best able to leverage technology to improve life in their cities.
The challenge is part of the government's Impact Canada Initiative, which aims to address complex economic, environmental and social problems across the country.
Weiterlesen: Why Canada's Smart Cities Challenge Is Missing The Mark
Question remains whether the vision for Markham Centre will be embraced by the people it aims to serve
As the dawn of 2024 breaks over Markham, the city is charging ahead with its ambitious urban development plans, aiming not just to grow in size but also to emerge as a beacon of smart city innovation in the north.
Positioned as Toronto's comparable in the northern region, Markham's strides in urban development show no signs of slowing down.
The Canadian federal government launched the Smart Cities Challenge in 2017 to award up to $50 million to municipal governments that are best able to leverage technology to improve life in their cities.
The challenge is part of the government’s Impact Canada Initiative, which aims to address complex economic, environmental and social problems across the country.
Weiterlesen: Why Canada's Smart Cities Challenge is missing the mark
Digital literacy is crucial for the public to understand the changes in our lives. To date, we’ve largely underplayed one widely available and publicly accessible avenue to a digitally literate public: libraries.
AI changes so quickly. In just the past year, we have ricocheted between the introduction of ChatGPT to the idea that AI could possibly destroy humanity to the recent OpenAI management drama. We have a proposal: to keep on top of AI, Canadians should turn to the hard-earned human intelligence available at … their local libraries.
Weiterlesen: CA: Citizenship in the age of data: The critical role of libraries for digital literacy
The Canadian federal government launched the Smart Cities Challenge in 2017 to award up to $50 million to municipal governments that are best able to leverage technology to improve life in their cities.
The challenge is part of the government’s Impact Canada Initiative, which aims to address complex economic, environmental and social problems across the country.
Weiterlesen: Why Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge is missing the mark