Author Archives: Lee Rickwood

About Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
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CBC TV Goes Over-the-Top with IBM Video Services

by Lee Rickwood
The new CBC video player is part of an overall strategy and specific migration plan to greater digital content creation and distribution capabilities, both for pre-recorded content and eventually live programming.

Canada’s Privacy Act Urgently Needs Major Upgrade

by Lee Rickwood
“[W]e have seen massive government breaches affecting tens, even hundreds, of thousands of citizens,” says Canada’s Privacy Commissioner. So the laws must change, he adds, calling on Canadians to provide input and ideas around protecting personal information in the online world.

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Canadian Technology at Play in U.S. Election

by Lee Rickwood
As well as managing the technological challenges of real-time data ingest, processing and output, these graphic solution designers must also consider analytical, subjective and even emotional implications of visualization.

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Canadian Police Forces, Emergency Services Seek to Harness ICT

by Lee Rickwood
Police forces seek to harness the power of various information and communication technologies, and to incorporate best practices for digital evidence management, Next Gen 9-1-1 services, body-worn video camera deployments and cloud-based data storage and processing.