Showing all articles in the Data driven innovation category
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Building a smart world, one city at a time
18 October 2016 | By Andrew Robertson in: Data driven innovation
Smart cities use open data to take an integrated approach to improving city operations, citizen quality of life and local economy. Read more
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2016 Open Cities Index: Open data making Waves in Canada
10 October 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
The results of the second annual Open Cities Index results reflect lots of change in the last year, confirming that Canadian cities are making waves with open data. Read more
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ODX Ventures
29 September 2016 | By Michael Chan in: Data driven innovation
The ODX Ventures program provides up to $50,000 in financial support to start-ups, small, and medium-sized enterprises to get their companies investment ready. Read more
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Company Profile: HotSpot Merchant Solutions
27 September 2016 | By Michael Chan in: Data driven innovation
HotSpot Merchant Solutions is a mobile parking app for municipalities and businesses. It allows municipalities to collect data, drivers to pay for parking from remote locations, and businesses to reward… Read more
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How we know where to go: survey lights path for open data in Canada
26 September 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
Canada's Open Data Exchange is running a survey to find out what kinds of Canadian companies use open data that governments published and how they earn revenue from it. The survey results will help ODX… Read more
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Private partners belong in the public conversation about open data
28 July 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
Canada's Open Data Exchange brings together 21 companies to discuss their use of the government's open data. Read more
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OD150 – First out of the gate
20 July 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
A full list of companies who have joined the ODX OD150 project, helping connect companies to open data. Read more
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Student Developer Turns Machine-Readable Curriculum Data into a Social Platform for Teachers
08 July 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
The platform allows teachers to share insights and best practices regarding the curriculum while using a rating system to show how hard a concept was to understand. Read more
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Guelph pilot project rolls out welcome mat to open data entrepreneurs
28 June 2016 | By Kevin Tuer in: Data driven innovation
The project brings data entrepreneurs and municipalities together to use open data to solve the issues they're facing. Read more
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Open data and municipalities; start now and start small
28 June 2016 | By Samantha Clark in: Data driven innovation
Members from ODX, City of Guelph, and InnoCité MTL met to discuss the Civic Accelerators Driving Government Innovation” and the role of open data in the initiative. Read more