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View from the 'Loo: The good word on government funding
14 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Ontario’s $15-million pledge to fund Communitech over the next three years, and the federal government’s five-year, $8.75-million contribution to the Canadian Digital Media Network, Communitech’s national… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: VeloCity Foundry to be a forge for hardware startups
07 November 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
The VeloCity Garage tech incubator is not exactly the place for people to be bending metal and drilling holes. That much became clear in 2012, when a student-led startup called BufferBox moved into the… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: On venture partners who invest in people
31 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Social Venture Partners, a global network of philanthropists, look for the same things any venture capitalist would: a good team, solid fundamentals and the potential to change the world, the difference… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Alexis Ohanian, Saul Colt weigh in on Waterloo Region tech [VIDEO]
24 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Video interviews with Alexis Ohanian and Saul Colt, conducted by Anthony Reinhart.Communitech’s annual Techtoberfest, held last Thursday and Friday, served up several such opportunities. I grabbed my video… Read more
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Participation: Essential fuel for new-age cities
15 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Smart cities need people like Anna Beard. She blogged a civil, measured critique of Day 1, noting that for all that was said about their importance, millennials (the under-34 cohort) seemed under-represented… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Great news from that other Waterloo university
10 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
University of Waterloo is one of the world’s top institutions for math, computer science and engineering. You needn’t look too deeply to find UW’s intellectual DNA. Often overlooked, though is the impact… Read more
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Weather challenges could be opportunities for smart cities
10 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Flood-control and power-grid investments are expensive, but Hoornweg, who is also Ontario’s chief safety and risk officer, said Toronto and its neighbours in the Greater Golden Horseshoe already have measures… Read more
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CityAge conference explores the big ideas that make city living attractive
09 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Municipal governments planning attractive urban centres would do well to satisfy Generation Y and they should also build urban features appreciated by women, who will make up two-thirds of the white-collar… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: The problem with parking
03 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Wouldn’t the prime inner-city parking spots be more valuable as spaces humming with activity, where we could bump into more interesting, creative people? It’s a question worth pondering as tech-sector… Read more
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CityAge conference Oct. 9-10 looks at challenges, opportunities of urbanization
03 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
We are trying to integrate planning and transportation infrastructure. Economic development is intimately related to planning issues and infrastructure issues. The real premise underlying CityAge is that… Read more