The City of Vancouver was recognized Tuesday night at the 2018 IT World Canada Digital Transformation Conference and Awards Ceremony in Toronto, winning in the Large Public Sector Transformation category for its Digital Strategy.
Vancouver is the first city in Canada to develop and implement a digital strategy and the first to hire a Chief Digital Officer. The four-year strategy, implemented in 2013 has seen the City go from having low digital maturity relative to other global cities to now being a template and model for cities around the world looking to take their digital footprint to the next level.
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Current’s CityIQ platform will help Canada’s cities gain insights into parking, traffic, public safety and air quality
Nokia is partnering with Current, powered by GE, with the aim of improving operational infrastructure in cities across Canada and to deliver new services to citizens.
The sudden retirement of its only family doctor in June has left the village of Apsley, Ont., searching for a new physician.
For residents of the community north of Peterborough, the nearest doctor is now a 100 to 120-kilometre round trip south to either the village of Lakefield or Peterborough. A challenging commute for many residents including Rachel Thuston, the mother of a two-year-old child.
A policy that allows provincial government employees to instantly know they are dealing with status Indians is now being reviewed, after inquiries made by APTN Investigates.
Eleanore Sunchild, a Cree lawyer from the Thunderchild First Nation whose office is located in Battleford, Sask., says the policy may have affected the jury selection process in the trial of Gerald Stanley.
$16 million will improve high-speed coverage in Saint-Damien, Indigenous communities of James Bay and Kawawachikamach
More than 2,800 households in 13 rural and remote communities in Quebec will be able to do business online, participate in distance education and benefit from online employment opportunities, thanks to a Government of Canada investment of more than $16 million in high-speed Internet.
The funding was announced by Parliamentary Secretary David Lametti, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, during a visit to Saint-Damien, one of the communities that will benefit from this funding.
Read more: CA: Rural and northern Quebec to benefit from faster Internet