Thursday, March 08, 2012
Ontario preparing to meet IT accessibility deadline At a recent seminar, public servants were told that making the province's electronic material accessible to the disabled is more than an obligation
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
How Privacy by Design should meet electronic health records Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Ann Cavoukian, released a white paper about electronic health records reminding operators to keep Privacy by Design in mind at every stage of the process
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Ontario should outsource IT further: Report The debt-laden province needs to look at shifting as much of its information technology systems as it can to the private sector, says commission
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
4 tough challenges for RIM's new team For the first time since its founding, Research in Motion has changed its top leadership, with a new president/CEO, a new board chairwoman and a new major investor who specializes in turnarounds. But can they save RIM?
Monday, November 28, 2011
U of T upgrades e-mail infrastructure using PbD In a lot of cases, making decisions by committee is a great way to sink innovation. However, in the case of U of T, and its project to move e-mail and personal storage into the cloud, it worked and helped focus priorities
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Ontario health centres mobilize case management The Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres is building on the success of an existing IT project by offering access through laptops. The point of care just got more powerful 
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Stikeman Elliott streamlined its data with DataCore Using DataCore’s SANSymphony V, corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott was able to re-purpose valuable storage devices and add new units into the chain without risking downtime
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Ontario cities prowl U.S. show for IT investment The person beside you at Interop New York is shopping, but not for a router or a server. Meet Blair Patacairk, who's part of a team encouraging IT execs to branch out 
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
IBM stakes $20M in Southern Ontario Water Consortium The tech giant joins more than 70 companies and eight universities in Ontario in an effort to research safer and more efficient water practices
Monday, August 22, 2011
Former colleague remembers Mark Vale The province's deputy minister of government services remembers the late Mark Vale, Ontario’s first chief information and privacy officer
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cisco, Ontario to invest almost half billion in R&D CEO John Chambers and Trade Minister Sandra Pupatello sign a memorandum of understanding for a five-year deal. The province will add $25 million to Cisco's $455 million investment in Ontario research facilities
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Ontario government’s first CIO Mark Vale passes away Vale, the Ontario government’s first chief information and privacy officer, passed away on Friday Aug. 12. Here's a brief look at his career in IT. WITH VIDEO
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Huge expansion for Ontario telehealth network Deal with Vidyo will allow the Ontario Telemedicine Network to offer videoconferencing to thousands of health professionals from their offices to patients in their homes
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Guelph upgrades network for Bring Your Own Device policy A new security network infrastructure was needed by the City of Guelph after it introduced a BYOD allowance to employees and contractors. What the combination of visibility and automation means for IT departments that must do more with less
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Cambridge strives to be the next Smarter City With the help of IBM, the City of Cambridge in Ontario is leading the way to create smarter, more interconnected cities. How analytics identifies and schedules maintenance for issues that haven’t yet happened, and how the 90s PC game, SimCity, might play into this
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Centre Wellington Township uses xRM for automation The municipality wanted to get more of its business processes happening electronically, but a lack of integration was making things difficult. Learn how the IT director defined his application landscape
Thursday, May 26, 2011
E-health raises issues of data management, privacy: panel While electronic health records means more lives will be saved with broad access to patients’ medical information, a panel of experts discuss the challenges brought on by going digital. Plus, Ontario Shores’ cloud journey
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Ryerson U wins ORION award for HD IP broadcast network Built atop the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network’s fibre optic infrastructure, the Global Campus Network connects 4,100 academic institutions around the world. Why one expert thinks Canada’s innovation approach must change to focus on the endpoint
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Ontario will be more open to cloud, says head CIO The country's biggest province is willing to look closer at private and public cloud technologies, as long as security and privacy controls are there
Thursday, March 10, 2011
GE Canada’s innovation hub could help data centres With the help of the Government of Ontario, the energy giant’s Canadian division will open a smart grid tech and energy management testing centre next year in Markham, Ont. Plus, the company will hire nearly 150 new positions, including software developers
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Good luck finding a driving app for that Why finding an app that allows you send and receive e-mails while driving, complies with Ontario distracted driving laws and actually helps you get your work done isn’t as easy as you think
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Is that smart phone app legal on the road? Over 19,000 distracted driving charges were issued from police forces across the province in the first five months of ticketing and 4,444 came from the OPP. What drivers should look for in a smart phone app before using it for hands-free emailing and texting while driving in Ontario
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Open data or social networking? GOVCAMP: Government can't do it all. Should open data or social networking take priority? A round table discusses
Monday, August 09, 2010
CGI scores $46 million for Ontario’s diabetes registry The Montreal-based IT contractor was chosen by eHealth Ontario as part of a “rigorous evaluation process.” Once completed, CEO Greg Reed said, the registry will be expanded to cover other chronic diseases
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Cancer Care Ontario swaps Excel for SAS The provincial agency uses analytics to forecast who will need chemotherapy and where they will go for treatment – to better prepare for patient care. The SAS solution replaces a former manual process that pulled numbers from different data stores into an Excel workbook