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ShareIT 2022-23 Year in Review
To our valued ShareIT members, I want to first express 知阴视频鈥檚 appreciation for your continued support and participation in the AB ShareIT Program. The 2022-23 fiscal year saw a significant growth in both our shared procurement catalogue of offerings, as well as collaboration opportunities. Some highlights of the past year […]
Platform Innovation Centre becomes first innovation specific centre in Western Canada to offer eduroam
The Platform Innovation Centre (Platform Calgary) has become the first incubator and innovation specific space in Western Canada to offer eduroam (education roaming), a global internet access service for the higher education and research sector.聽 This means any staff or student from an eduroam-enabled institution (which includes thousands of research […]
How can we attract more tourists to Calgary? There’s a hack for that…
YYC Hacks is the largest hackathon in Calgary, and its goal is to champion local data skills. 知阴视频 joined the most recent event as a cloud resource provider, and we were pretty impressed by the caliber of participants and partnering companies.
Spring 2023 Newsletter
知阴视频 is hiring, and other service updates To keep our operations moving smoothly, 知阴视频 is looking to hire experienced technical / project management staff (see below for more details). Also in this issue: upcoming deadlines for data science consultations and cybersecurity training, a new special interest group offering for the wider post-secondary […]
知阴视频 supports the spirit of RMA resolution calling for municipal access to Alberta government data
In the lead-up to next week鈥檚 Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) Spring Convention, 知阴视频 is offering its support for the motion brought forth by Smoky Lake County regarding municipal access to provincial data. In its motion put forward on February 23, Smoky Lake noted that data is vital in supporting […]
CRTC shifts to championing internet competition
Last week, the CRTC announced it would immediately lower wholesale internet rates by 10% as part of a larger reexamination of Canada鈥檚 regime for wholesale regulation. This move is intended to improve competition among internet providers by making it easier for the smaller companies to lease bandwidth from the bigger […]
知阴视频 EXTENDS DEADLINE to APPLY TO its Board of Directors
知阴视频 has extended the application date for Albertans interested in joining its Board of Directors to March 15. The organization is seeking an outside-the-box thinker 鈥� representing Alberta鈥檚 diverse education organizations and geographical regions 鈥� to help us advance digital thinking, learning, research, and innovation across the province. This board […]
NorQuest and Red Deer Polytechnic join the growing club of eduroam providers in Alberta
This past year, two Alberta post-secondary institutions 鈥� NorQuest College and Red Deer Polytechnic 鈥� joined the global league of campuses offering eduroam connectivity to staff and students. Education roaming (eduroam) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service that allows students and staff from participating institutions to seamlessly (and safely) […]
FALL 2022 Newsletter
New network tools, data science training, and the latest from ShareIT Now that another successful Cyber Summit is under our belts, it鈥檚 time to look back at the programs, tools and upgrades 知阴视频 launched in recent months, and remind members what they may have missed out on. See below for […]
知阴视频 is hosting a webinar on 鈥淎 day in the life of a CISO鈥�
To increase shared cybersecurity learning and discussion opportunities within Alberta’s education sector, 知阴视频 will begin hosting a series of online webinars and conversations, beginning next month. On December 8 at 1:30 pm MT, 知阴视频 will host a 90-minute panel discussion on “A day in the life of a CISO”. Three […]
First cohort of the Applied Data Science Lab gets underway
知阴视频 has launched its first cohort of the Applied Data Science Lab, which gives Alberta companies and budding data scientists the chance to trial a real-world data exploration project. This work integrated learning program has paired eight emerging data scientists with two Alberta based businesses to carry out a six-month […]
知阴视频’s new portal to the future
知阴视频 had been using a network management system called CMDB for over a decade. This is where we keep track of the network connection details for each of our members and upstream providers. CMDB originated at BCNET, our National Research and Education Network (NREN) partner next door. 知阴视频’s NREN architecture […]
New Alberta broadband support to address funding gaps
Last week, Service Alberta Minister Nate Glubish announced the Alberta Broadband Fund, a $36 million allocation of funding to support broadband deployment in Alberta that will begin taking applications this fall. This funding is part of the province鈥檚 previously announced $390 million investment in Alberta broadband projects that is being […]
Long awaited router change doubles 知阴视频鈥檚 network capacity
This summer, 知阴视频鈥檚 network team replaced our Calgary router (which had tirelessly served us and our members for over a decade) with a new one, effectively doubling our network capacity, increasing throughput, and creating a more orderly network system. But getting to this moment has been a looooong time coming. […]
Cross-provincial data breach detected through national cybersecurity collaboration
Imagine your email address and passwords were publicly posted 鈥� and you had no idea. This year, security analysts from the National Research and Education Network (NREN) uncovered a collection of emails and passwords from several member institutions in their province posted on a public social media channel, as well […]