E-Commerce Fuels Small Business Growth in Canada
By Yasmin Ranade
PayPal Canada recently analyzed data from 4,000 Canadian small businesses that use its platform to reveal growth data about e-commerce by small business.
Tag: Canadian Innovation
Deep Learning Challenges, Opportunities for Students, Businesses, Governments at AI Summit
by Lee Rickwood
There’s an identified need for education, awareness and informative case studies about AI and machine learning to help government (and others) understand the risks and rewards of deploying artificial intelligence.
Children’s book, ‘Ara the Star Engineer,’ Shows STEM is for Everyone
By Yasmin Ranade
On International Day of the Girl a couple of weeks ago I read about a first-of-its-kind illustrated book for kids about engineering. The book, titled Ara the Star Engineer, follows a 6-year old girl, Ara, on a quest to build an algorithm to solve a big problem.
Lacking Affordable Internet, Indigenous Communities Take D.I.Y. Approach to Technology
by Lee Rickwood
Doing it for yourself in this case means setting up Internet and mobile phone access in remote rural and northern communities.
Hollywood, Health Care and High-Tech Help Patients Walk the Walk
by Lee Rickwood
Technology can be used to help diagnose, address and even rehabilitate patients who face mobility challenges, and it’s often the same technology used in Hollywood movies.
Toronto Opens Doors to Open Data, Open Government with Calls for Civic Engagement as Art
by Lee Rickwood
Civic decision-makers and members of the wider community are hoping that data can help them solve the charged social, political and technical issues that the city faces.
The road to simpler small-business billing
As with all businesses, time is money. Tofino Bus needed a better solution, but it also needed to work within its physical and personnel limitations.
Find Out About Digital Privacy at Public Library
by Lee Rickwood
The public library is a great place to get information about digital privacy and online security. Talks, lectures and a full day of digital privacy and online security sessions are being staged in Toronto.