What Was Said: Idea Forums

Welcome to the Ideas Forum on Canada's digital economy strategy.

There are five forums — one for each of the themes in the consultation paper — where you can submit, share and rate ideas:

We encourage you to review the consultation paper.

The public consultation period ended on July 13, at which time this website was closed to additional comments and submissions. We encourage you to continue visiting this site in the weeks and months to come. News and updates on progress towards Canada’s first digital economy strategy will be posted in our Newsroom, and in other prominent locations on the site, as they become available.

Between May 10 and July 13, more than 2000 Canadian individuals and organizations registered to share their ideas and submissions. You can read their contributions — and the comments from other users — in the Submissions Area and the Idea Forum.

Top Three Ideas

To Compete You Must Compute

Theme: Digital Infrastructure
Submitted by Susan Baldwin 2010-07-08 08:32:20 EDT

High Performance Computing (HPC) or Supercomputing is critical digital infrastructure for productivity, innovation and research and for building and sustaining a digital economy, indeed, a digital society.
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Idea Status: +463 | Total Votes: 499 | Comments: 40

Open Access to Canada's Public Sector Information and Data

Theme: Canada's Digital Content
Submitted by Tracey Lauriault 2010-06-10 11:28:30 EDT

Create a data.gc.ca for Canada's public sector information (PSI) and data in parallel with the excellent NRCan GeoConnections model (e.g. GeoGratis, GeoBase, Discovery Portal).
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Idea Status: +338 | Total Votes: 370 | Comments: 28

Improved Access to publicly-Funded Data

Theme: Innovation Using Digital Technologies
Submitted by rakerman 2010-06-03 22:49:09 EDT

I support the statement in the consultation paper that "Governments can help by making publicly–funded research data more readily available to Canadian researchers and businesses."
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Idea Status: +197 | Total Votes: 211 | Comments: 14

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