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Alberta’s Public Sector Celebrates Four Years of (More) Affordable Internet

By Admin / Jul 27, 2016

Members of the Alberta Internet Buying Group may have noticed their internet bill was a little lower this month. July 2016 marked the seventh major decrease in the cost of bandwidth for the group, which was reduced from $5.75/Mbps to $5.00/Mbps. This month also marks the fourth anniversary of the Internet Buying Group. To celebrate its […]

How Organizations can use Pokémon Go

By Admin / Jul 19, 2016

Pokémon Go was officially released in Canada this weekend. The game has proven to be great for socializing, giving folks a reason to get out more, and people are even finding their love interests through the game (looks like Tinder has some competition). But the game is also giving headaches […]

Doing Science with Data

By Admin / Jun 23, 2016

As part of ÖªÒõÊÓƵ’s mandate to explore new technologies and share our experiences with stakeholders, we are actively looking for new ways to improve our processes and bring value to our research and education community. One of the first projects I worked on when I joined ÖªÒõÊÓƵ was our metrics […]

Data Science – So Hot Right Now!

By Admin / Jun 6, 2016

Last month’s Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) started with some hands-on problem solving for attendees to mull over: How long will it take 3,000 people  to filter through one registration desk, given there are four possible streams they could register through, sorted alphabetically by last name? You might be tempted […]

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SDN Symposium 2015

By Admin / May 24, 2016

ÖªÒõÊÓƵ will be hosting an invite-only, one-day technical symposium in which participants will learn and exchange practical technical experiences with SDN, OpenFlow, and OpenStack. The symposium will kick-start exploration and adoption in the Canadian Innovation, Research and Education community. It will precede the 2015 Cyber Summit, which this year is […]

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Connecting Calgary through sports

By Admin / May 17, 2016

For anyone thinking about creating their own app, my advice would be to just get started. It doesn’t matter how, but just start taking things forward. Moments build momentum.

CRTC Wraps Up Hearing on the Future of Broadband in Canada

By Admin / May 12, 2016

Last month, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) wrapped up a three-week hearing on the future of broadband in Canada. Nearly 90 academics, public interest groups, individuals, municipalities, and telecom companies appeared before the commission to comment on the feasibility of including high speed internet as a “basic telecommunications […]

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Disaster recovery cloud resources available to Albertans

By Admin / May 4, 2016

Businesses or individuals who are affected by the fires in and around Fort McMurray are invited to use Alberta’s Rapid Access Cloud to temporarily store a backup of their servers, or get their websites, email hosting or other services back up and running. Available through ÖªÒõÊÓƵ, Alberta’s not-for-profit technology accelerator, […]

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Banff Venture Forum

By Admin / Mar 1, 2016

Alberta Enterprise is a Foundation Partner of the Banff Venture Forum.  Hosted on September 22 & 23, 2016, the Forum is designed to showcase the hottest hi-tech companies from across North America, offer insight into key issues within the industry, provide a premium networking opportunity and give companies a chance to […]