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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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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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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
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Where there’s light: P & P Optica broadens uses of spectrometry
24 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
P&P Optica is in the spectrometry business, developing better devices for reading the light signatures that compounds and elements give off. The heart of P&P’s success lies inside those discs: A thin layer… Read more
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I Think Security turns to Kickstarter to fund Dropbox protection device
18 September 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
I Think Security has taken a further step into the consumer market with a Kickstarter campaign to fund its latest product: the Qi4BOX, which secures Dropbox users’ files. The $30,000 crowdfunding campaign,… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Notes from an itinerant guest in the Communitech space
05 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, View from the 'Loo
Christian Aagaard recaps their experience as a summer guest in the Waterloo Region ecosystem. Read more
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Report beats drum for putting musically talented workers into tech jobs
23 August 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Music is much more than a luxury. A report released supported the idea that music and arts had an impact on the tech sector. Read more
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What's new HYPERDRIVE?
28 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Startups
Change seems to be a theme this month for HYPERDRIVE, Communitech’s startup accelerator, as it welcomes its third cohort of startups. But it isn’t just the people, products and pitches that account for… Read more
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What's new HYPERDRIVE?
28 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Startups
HYPERDRIVE is back, with a new cohort, a new style, and brand new ideas. Read more