Central to this will be the development and publication of policies for ‘Digital Economy’ leadership.
This is a crucial piece of the puzzle, because as the article Digital Nation 2011 from Backbone Magazine highlights, Canada is still missing this essential policy.
Read more: Defining Canada’s missing Digital Economy Strategy
Construction on The Northern Ontario Broadband Expansion Project kicked off in the spring after a federal environmental assessment was approved in April.
Since then, despite setbacks caused by forest fires, over 270 kilometres of broadband cable has been laid in three separate parts of northwestern Ontario. Also, a regional First Nation construction company has been awarded a contract for a huge portion of the project.
Read more: CA: Ontario: Broadband project will ‘open new world’
New Brunswick's Department of Education has a dilemma.
It needs to cut costs, but it doesn't want to do so at the expense of what happens in the classroom, so it has launched a public consultation in a bid to gather ideas on how exactly to do that.
One of the ideas being bounced around is finding ways to share services between school districts, anything from IT and human resources to transportation, food services, and professional development.
Read more: CA: New Brunswick: School districts eye shared services
After a decade of false starts and spending scandals, Ontario's move from paper charts to electronic health records is still grinding on, but Dr. Gregory Rose is a few steps ahead of most physicians.
Rose, an infectious disease specialist, is among 240 doctors at The Ottawa Hospital who are the first in Ontario to be linked to provincewide databases that give them a more complete picture of a patient's health.
Read more: CA: Ottawa: Ehealth slowly spreads across province
So the Telehealth idea seems like a long time coming. Sure that is more involved than simple video conferencing. There is special equipment, scheduling and security to deal with, but the benefits to this system are obvious and plenty.
Read more: CA: British Columbia: Ladysmith: Obvious benefits to Telehealth