In October 2021, Centraide of Greater Montreal secured funding from the Quebec Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity (MTESS) to launch the DATAide program. Spanning three years (October 2021 to October 2024), DATAide is a skills and leadership development program designed to help community organizations in Quebec succeed in their digital transformation efforts as […]
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A recent conference in New Zealand had data governance and maturity as some of its foci, showing that the conversation has moved from a few of us ‘data nerds’ going on about it while everyone else falls asleep, to managers and leaders recognizing these are both key and an issue. Last week, I travelled north […]
At the end of last year, we conducted two more workshops in the Community Solutions Network community of practice program, one on Stakeholder Mapping and another on the Civic Values of a project. In addition to the fascinating content of the conversations, these workshops also revealed more about what it takes to really learn from […]
A couple of weeks ago, we had our second Community of Practice (CoP) workshop. Initially, I had conceptualized this blog as a kind of hot take coming right on the heels of each exciting event, but Workshop #2 was so rich with collaboration, and the one-on-one ‘office hours’ conversations we had with various participants contained […]
This is the second blog post in a series spotlighting the newest workshop series from the Community Solutions Network program. For this initiative, Open North is launching three new Communities of Practice and an online collaboration forum. These communities are composed of civil servants and Indigenous leaders from towns, cities, or regions all across Canada. […]
This is the first blog post in a series spotlighting the newest workshop series from the Community Solutions Network program. For this initiative, Open North is launching three new Communities of Practice and an online collaboration forum. These communities are composed of civil servants and Indigenous leaders from towns, cities, or regions all across Canada. […]
As Canadian communities across the country explore smart city initiatives, there is a pressing need to better understand the opportunities and risks presented by data and emerging technologies. Over the course of summer 2021, we successfully held our webinar series on Open Smart Communities. These webinars explored themes that emerged from research briefs to provide insight on […]
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Adopting an open smart city lens, the Community Solutions Network Research Briefs provide formidable insights into how data and technology intersect with challenges local communities are grappling with as well as key considerations for policymakers and practitioners. A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to redefine the place of technology in our daily lives, radically […]
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Looking at the world around us, it’s not difficult to find instances of data and technology being used for questionable or harmful ends. Intrusive contact tracing technology, facial recognition, and crime prediction software — to name a few — not only threaten individual and collective privacy but embed further bias and discrimination into our cities. […]
Smart cities, intelligent cities, sustainable cities, sentient cities, cities as platform, the next city, innovative cities, programmable cities, connected cities, and hackable cities are among the list of labels observed by the Open Smart Cities in Canada project’s Environmental-Scan (E-Scan) and Gap Analysis to describe data-driven and networked urbanism. These labels are created and used […]
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