[Advisors] "digital strategy" canada?

[Gary W Kenward]

There's a lot of ironic humour in your comment.

Thank you.
Gary



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On 2013.02.22, at 1:58 PM, Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net> wrote:

> Ken, I don't have the answer to this question.  James has been working =
really hard on getting i-Canada to understand the concept of community.
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> I'll pass this to him.
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> Marita
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> On 2/21/2013 11:42 PM, imaginit wrote:
>> Marita:
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>>   Please clarify for me: the strategy outlined in Michael's posting =
lines up with iCanada's "Innovation Nation" objectives, which focusses =
on investment incentives for internet businesses? An agenda that the =
current government (that is, Prime Minister Stephen Harper) can easily =
align himself with?
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>>   I am all for promoting investment in high tech in Canada (although =
not a fan of some of the stimuli, such as SR&ED tax credits, another =
component of iCanada's 'platform"). However, based upon the information =
provided on iCanada's web site and it's prolific LinkedIn postings,  I =
find the proposition that iCanada is working for the community to be =
misrepresentative.
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>>   Do you know of activities by iCanada that are aimed at directly =
engaging Canadian communities, particularly rural, aboriginal, elderly =
and other communities in need?
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>> Regards,
>> Gary
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>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
>> the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to =
himself.
>> Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
>>     - George Bernard Shaw
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>> On 2013.02.21, at 6:43 PM, Marita Moll<mmoll@ca.inter.net>  wrote:
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>>> The elements of the govt's digital strategy listed in the letter -- =
see link below -- are laughable.  Maybe we should send the minister a =
letter with some suggestions of what a real digital strategy might =
consist of.  Actually there are several articles in the collection "The =
Internet Tree" which would suffice very well.  One is by our very own =
Garth Graham, another by Michael Geist.
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>>> Marita
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>>> On 2/19/2013 7:05 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
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>>>> I don't know which is worse... Not having a digital strategy for =
Canada or
>>>> having the kind of digital strategy that we are likely to get from =
a Harper
>>>> Government :(.
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>>>> The government's response to digital strategy critics
>>>> <http://wordsbynowak.com/2013/02/15/digital-strateg/>
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