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Looking To Protect Your Students’ Data? Start With Their Login Accounts
Protecting children鈥檚 privacy online is a top-of-mind concern for educators. But for the IT administrators tasked with this job, the 鈥渉ows鈥� of doing so can be complex and multi-faceted. One good place to start is through managing the online accounts that students create to access their learning tools (such as […]
Canada鈥檚 Research and Education Community Strengthens Cybersecurity
知阴视频 is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the first procurement for a new national Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) infrastructure. The SIEM initiative involves a collaboration of 13 provincial, territorial and federal partners of Canada鈥檚 National Research and Education Network (NREN). The proposed solution will enable all […]
知阴视频 Supports SWIFT Call For Equal Access to the CRTC鈥檚 Broadband Fund
Bright/translucent lines: Areas where SWIFT estimates internet service provider offer service packages with speeds that meet or exceed CRTC鈥檚 50/10 鈥渂asic service鈥� target. Dark hexagons: Areas considered served/ineligible to apply to CRTC fund. Last week, 知阴视频 submitted a letter in support of Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT)鈥檚 appeal to the […]
知阴视频’s Latest Initiative Teaches Data Science Skills to Alberta Entrepreneurs
The rise of the digital data economy 知阴视频 has unveiled a new service to provide data science training and tools to Albertans. The聽Data Science for Entrepreneurs聽initiative provides Alberta entrepreneurs, businesses, and social enterprises with free training workshops and access to data science expertise. Funded by the聽Government of Alberta鈥檚 Community and […]
知阴视频鈥檚 Case to the Telecommunications Legislative Review
Last week, 知阴视频 submitted a brief to the federal government鈥檚 Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel. The panel has been tasked with reviewing Canada鈥檚 communication legislative framework in the digital age, focusing on issues of content creation, net neutrality and cultural diversity, and how to strengthen the future of Canadian […]
知阴视频 then and now: 25 years and counting
Reviewing 知阴视频鈥檚 impact on the past, present, and future of technological innovation in Alberta Can you name the significance of 1994? 1994 was a momentous year. Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa. OJ Simpson made his infamous dash from police on the Los Angeles highways. The […]
Internet Buying Group Offers 11th Major Price Decrease
As a holiday present to our members, 知阴视频 is once again dropping the price of bandwidth for the Internet Buying Group. As of January 1, 2019, the price will go down from $2.25 per Mbps to $1.75 per Mbps, a 22% decrease. This is the 11th price drop for the […]
New Hub in Red Deer Will Help Schools and Researchers Collaborate Easier and Faster
After years of negotiations and maintenance work, 知阴视频 is pleased to announce that a high-speed networking point of presence (PoP) has been installed in Red Deer. Red Deer College and the Red Deer Public School District were the first institutions to connect to the new PoP, at a rate of […]
Introducing the AI Initiative: Alberta’s Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Source
By Shea Johnson, Founder of the AI Initiative What is the AI Initiative? Borne from the drive to learn more about artificial intelligence, my vision for the AI Initiative is to provide post-secondary students, the general public, and eventually K-12 students with the knowledge and resources to work with AI. […]
ShareIT Adds Security Services and Knowledge-Sharing Opportunities
As global hacks and data breaches continue to dominate headlines, Alberta educators are moving to increase the sophistication of their security tools, while collaborating on a joint line of defense. Last month, Alberta鈥檚 ShareIT procurement program added security services to its catalogue of offerings. In addition, ShareIT is now offering […]
SuperNet Outage
Category: Network service disruption on the Calgary SuperNet Start Time: Thursday, Nov 1, 2018, 08:23 MDT End Time: Thursday, Nov 1, 2018, 09:40 MDT Duration: 77 minutes This was a wide spread outage and service interruption to multiple services in the Calgary and aggregating communities. Axia dispatched a tech to […]
8 Reasons To Attend The Cyber Summit
With the 2018 Cyber Summit just around the corner, we wanted to give you even more reasons why you don鈥檛 want to miss out! Top 8 reasons to attend the 2018 Cyber Summit: 1. Hands-on learning. Big level thinking. With over 24 speakers, two fantastic keynotes, and two hands-on workshops, […]
Andrew Keen On How To Fix The Future
In the lead up to the 2018 Cyber Summit, we interviewed keynote speaker Andrew Keen to get a sneak peak of his talk. Keen is a well-known provocateur when it comes to discussing the digital revolution. He has worked in Silicon Valley since 1995, and in recent years, has focused […]
ConnectIN:Testing the gaps in First Nations鈥� Internet connectivity
Getting adequate access to internet continues to be an issue for First Nation communities. But the extent of this problem is still not fully known. In 2019-2020, ConnectIN evaluated the internet connectivity of First Nation communities in western Canada. Led by led by three First Nations regional technology organizations, its […]
ShareIT expands its catalogue offerings
Alberta鈥檚 ShareIT procurement service has successfully entered its second year, marking $3.38 million in savings thus far for participating members. Now, the catalogue of end-user computing and networking hardware that can be purchased through ShareIT has expanded to include more products (under the categories of laptops, desktops, tablets, and wireless […]