Tag: Canadian Innovation

The
Poverty Hackathon: Toronto and Nairobi, November 20-22

November 10, 2015

By Yasmin Ranade
The
Poverty Hackathon is a Devs Without Borders 28-hour event that brings charitable minded developers from Toronto and Nairobi together – simultaneously – to build web and mobile applications in education, business and farming for people living in rural and impoverished areas in East Africa. The winning solution gets real exposure, and will be implemented by Free The Children in rural Kenya.

New Doll Aims to Teach Young Girls To Love Math & Science

November 8, 2015

By Christine Persaud

There has been a long list of initiatives aimed at getting more women involved in the S.T.E.M. fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). And it’s no surprise that getting girls interested at a young age can help encourage them to pursue such careers once the time comes. A new toy doll from MGA Entertainment Canada has an interesting idea on how to go about this.

Canadian Tech Companies Combine to Deliver Live Immersive 360 6K Video

October 29, 2015

By Lee Rickwood
While multi-camera rigs can and have been used to create very similar immersive content, with this particular system, only one camera is required to capture a real-time live 360-degree experience, thanks to unique lenses and processing algorithms developed in Canada

Canadian Tech Develops New Mobile Education App for Kids in Developing Countries

October 16, 2015

By Lee Rickwood
The initiative is one of several to target education and access needs in poorer countries around the world, by the way: perhaps most well-known is the One Laptop per Child Initiative, but also the so-called ‘Zedu-pad’ program, active in disparate countries such as Afghanistan and Zambia, respectively.

Can Selfies Be the Key to Online Security?

October 8, 2015

By Lee Rickwood
A Toronto digital development company is confidently gearing up for as many as 25,000 users in its first year, a number that surely is well below the number of folks who say they want or need anonymity online.