Canada 3.0 Keynote Address Day 2

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Opening Remarks

Ken Coates Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo June 9, 2009

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Canada as a Digital Nation

  The new economy is crucial to Canada’s success as a nation

  The country has strengths, but lacks depth and reach in the digital media sector

Canada as a Digital Nation

  Collaboration, content and commitment to Canada are the core requirements of the new order

  Responding to the challenges of the digital media revolution could be a nation-building enterprise of fundamental significance.

What is a Digital Nation?

  Every citizen is connected   All content used in society

is available   An ownership model is fair

and transparent   Common activities in

society are just as easy in digital

Canada Project: Enable Canadians

Only 1% of Canada’s content is online….

* It costs less to scan a book than to print a book

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Digital Media Ethics

Intellectual Property Rights

  No country has figured out a sustainable approach to intellectual property rights for the 21st century

  A huge national advantage will result for the nation that bridges the rights and needs of content providers, technology providers and commercial interests

Intellectual Property Rights

  Moving forward requires both a new approach and a new mindset; this is not a time to rely on old models and long-standing assumptions

Participate @ Workshops

Digital Shovels Mobility and Media Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Enterprise Information Management

Talent Attraction and Retention

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Digital Shovels

Helen McDonald, Industry Canada: Assistant Deputy Minister

Digital Shovels

Peter Bruce, Deputy CIO, Government of Canada

Ron McKerlie, Deputy Minister Government Services

Digital Shovels

  Canada has lost its early advantage in digital infrastructure. Significant improvements are needed if the country is to remain competitive

  ICT strengths of Canada have not been matched by their take up and use in all sectors of the economy

Digital Shovels

Digital Shovels

  Canada has built decent pipelines but has not yet produced the content base to keep the pipelines full of Canadian material.

  Put simply, is the Internet a means of building a sense of Canadian identity or is it simply a highway to international content

Digital Shovels

Digital Shovels

  The country needs to keep a close eye on international developments. The appropriate benchmark is whether or not Canada has kept up with the rest of the world

  ICT is crucial to the delivery of modern public services

  Canada will benefit significantly from a proper digital infrastructure

Digital Shovels

Digital Shovels

  Canada needs a national program to get the content unique to Canada online for all Canadians

  This program needs to be led by the federal government but it must be supported by other levels of Government and the private sector

Digital Shovels

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Talent Attraction and Retention

Jeannette Kopak, Dir. Business Development and Operations, Centre for Digital Media (Vancouver)

Talent Attraction and Retention

Ken Coates, Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo

Lisa de Wilde, CEO, TVO

Talent Attraction and Retention

  Canada’s universities and colleges needs to do a better job of producing and training talented digital media personnel

  There is a disconnect between industry/sector needs and the skills and training of college and university graduates

Talent Attraction and Retention

Talent Attraction and Retention

  Canada’s post secondary system needs to respond more quickly to changes in the digital media space

  Our colleges and universities need to pay urgent attention to the manner in which we train, cultivate and support entrepreneurs

  Expand definition to include social entrepreneurship

Talent Attraction and Retention

Talent Attraction and Retention

  This country needs to build loyalty among its highly skilled people, entrepreneurs.

  Canada needs to work harder to keep its top people in the country.

Talent Attraction and Retention

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Digital Media Research & Commercializ’n

Arlene Dickinson, CEO, Venture Communications Ltd.

Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Eugene Roman, CIO, Open Text Corporation

Kevin Tuer, Managing Director, Canadian Digital Media Network

Research and Commercialization

  Building a culture for entrepreneurship and risk taking is key

  Entrepreneurs should be treated like ‘rock stars’

  Time to look to the arts for a source of innovation

Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Research and Commercialization

  Canada’s challenge is to commercialize new ideas and accelerate companies

  Use digital media to augment your business rather than to become a digital media business

  The challenge lies in the nurturing of partnerships between universities, governments, companies, and creators.

Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Research and Commercialization

  Canada lacks the models, venture capital and commitment to match competitor nations

  Financing models needs to evolve to meet the pace of change

  Build the business plan first, before looking for finance

  Governments should help by filling the gaps that private sector cannot

Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Day 1: Review

  Canada as a Digital Nation   Intellectual Property Rights   Digital Shovels   Talent Attraction and Retention   Research and Commercialization   Mobility and Media

Mobility and Media

Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art & Design

Mobility and Media

John Meyers, VP and GM: Communications Solutions Group, Open Text

Mobility and Media

1.  Support and incent innovation, risk-taking, and match-making so that Canadian innovators can succeed and breed.

  Create public/private fund that supports SMEs and micro-companies to innovate and compete (take the revenues from the next spectrum offer and create such a fund.)

Mobility and Media

Mobility and Media

2.  Canadian companies require an international market place to succeed.

  Create a Canadian mobile super brand and build opportunities to bid into the international market (including developing world).

Mobility and Media

Mobility and Media

3.  Canada needs high quality low-cost widely available mobile data networks.

  Incent network roll-out through government procurement, migrating services and content to mobile platforms, and policy action that supports competition.

Mobility and Media

Mobility and Media

4.  Mobile business capacity building that addresses the explosion of social media, individual consumer needs, emerging technology opportunities and knowledge transfer.

  Centres of Excellence that can accelerate training, support research transfer and act as a test bed for next generation products and business models.

Mobility and Media

Central Message

  Canada needs to unify around a single vision

  We do not need scale to be successful but we need a sharp focus

Chad Gaffield President SSHRC June 9, 2009

Keynote

Canada as a Digital Nation in the 21st century: The Innovative Contributions of the Social Sciences and Humanities Chad Gaffield, Ph.D. FRSC President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Canada 3.0, Stratford, June 9, 2009

Technology: Phones

Technology: Change/History:Transfer of Knowledge

CREATIVITY DIVERSITY

COMPLEXITY

Our support for excellence must span engineering, the natural and health sciences, and include the human sciences – the social sciences, humanities and the arts.

Learning, culture and societies are being transformed in this rapidly changing, technologically driven world. The human sciences will be central to understanding and advancing human and social well being in this new milieu.

Indira Samarasekera, President, University of Alberta National Science Day, May 27

If it is possible – and it surely is – that the application of science, technology, and innovation to all the above challenges can have unanticipated consequences, some of them negative, is it not to the social sciences and humanities that we must look to conduct the ethical, economic, environmental, social, and legal impact assessments that will forewarn us of those negative possibilities and enable us to avoid or mitigate them?

Preston Manning, National Science Day, May 27, 2009

The understanding of the human mind - memory, emotions, and what it means to be human - will be advanced through collaboration between neuroscience and the humanities.

Successful societies are built around creative and well-balanced communities, University of Toronto president David Naylor told a Toronto business crowd recently. You can't have them without the social sciences, the arts and the humanities.

Globe and Mail, May 25, 2009 re: David Naylor, President of University of Toronto, Economic Club of Canada speech, May 14

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

University campuses with an RDC

….in rapid expansion

Number of researchers attached to active contracts

….one-third are students

Growing numbers of researchers…

CANADA AS A DIGITAL NATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Harold Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952)

Marshall Mcluhan (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980)

Keynote

Honorable John Wilkinson Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation June 9, 2009

Welcome

Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario June 9, 2009

Ken Coates Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo June 9, 2009

Housekeeping

Participate @ Workshops

Digital Shovels Mobility and Media Digital Media Research & Commercialization

Enterprise Information Management

Talent Attraction and Retention

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Housekeeping

  Toilets   Blue shirt staff for questions   Purple shirts will provide directions   Showcase – Open all day   Lunch – in your breakout rooms   Today’s final plenary kicks off at 3:45pm sharp!

Thank you

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