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Teaching students data literacy through everyday curricula
The free, interactive platform that has helped over 88,000 students across Canada learn and apply data science skills through their everyday curricula has been renewed for a further two years. With the new funding from the national CanCode program, the Callysto platform will continue its focus on developing responsible digital […]
知阴视频 launches three cybersecurity services for wider member community
To meet the growing cybersecurity threats faced by Alberta鈥檚 research, education, and public sectors, 知阴视频 is launching three new services this spring. The goal is to聽provide members better insights, tools, and advice on how to detect and protect themselves from malicious activity.聽 The new services are: Threat Feed for Education […]
CyBear provides Alberta a new level of cyber security
知阴视频 is about to launch a suite of new security services, including CyBear! Hailing from the Canadian Rockies, this cybernetic grizzly will protect kids and 鈥渃ubs鈥� in Alberta鈥檚 school districts from malicious online agents. 鈥� Okay, CyBear may be an April Fool鈥檚 joke, but the increase in cyber threats is […]
Sharing the results from 知阴视频’s community outreach
知阴视频 recently ran a series of focus groups and surveys with our community, to get their input for our 2022-25 Strategic Roadmap. We are pleased to report the feedback received on 知阴视频’s services was overwhelmingly positive, with 93% of respondents indicating our services are unique and could not be easily […]
Alberta budget and broadband strategy hold promise, but concerns remain
Last month, Alberta鈥檚 Finance Minister Travis Toews tabled the provincial government鈥檚 Budget 2022. It builds on a number of commitments outlined in the government鈥檚 Alberta Recovery Plan and Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy by introducing a number of investments relevant to advanced education, innovation, and skilled labour development. […]
Lessons learned from our recent outage
On Saturday, February 26, one of our network team鈥檚 worst nightmares occurred. A major incident took place during planned maintenance at one of our data centres. Thankfully, this occured on a weekend, our major services were restored the same day, and access was restored to all 知阴视频 services by Monday, […]
ALBERTA BROADBAND STRATEGY AIMS TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BY 2026
Today, Premier Jason Kenney and Service Alberta Minister Nate Glubish released the long-awaited Alberta Broadband Strategy 2022: connecting Albertans, growing the economy. 知阴视频 was pleased to see many of the initiatives we have previously advocated for in the new strategy, which we believe are necessary to create vital connectivity links […]
知阴视频 cloud helping Alberta school protect student privacy
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Alberta offers several lesson plans to help students protect their privacy on the internet, including one titled 鈥淕etting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube: A Lesson on Online Information.鈥� The lesson鈥檚 main takeaway is that, once something is put online, it鈥檚 almost impossible […]
HackED Beta gives tech “newbs” a chance to try out a hackathon
This past November, the University of Alberta鈥檚 Computer Engineering Club held its fifth annual HackED Beta 鈥� 鈥淎lberta鈥檚 friendliest beginner hackathon,鈥� of which 知阴视频 was a proud sponsor. The 24-hour coding competition is geared towards beginner programmers who are either in high school or the first two years of post-secondary […]
Rapid Access Cloud user profile: PinterEC explores remote video capture
Periodically, we like to chat with one of 知阴视频鈥檚 Rapid Access Cloud users, to find out what fun and innovative projects they鈥檙e exploring on our cloud. In this post, we talked to Chris Pinter, CEO of PinterEC Technology Projects, a research and development firm that works with companies to build […]
Data science fellowship helps companies and emerging data scientists flourish
Last August, 知阴视频鈥檚 Data Science For Albertans (DSFA) team wrapped up its 2021 industry fellowship. This was the third year we offered the program, which provides an opportunity for emerging data scientists to get real-world experience, while assisting local organizations along their data science adoption journey. Five industry partners, from […]
Summer hackathon highlights Alberta’s neuroscience skills
Many people may not be aware of this, but Alberta is a global leader in neuroscience 鈥� the study of the brain and brain behaviour 鈥� and, increasingly, the development of neurotechnologies, i.e. the practical applications of this science. One organization that is aware of this fact, and is doing […]
Alberta鈥檚 public shared procurement program surpasses $30M in savings as more security offerings added
Alberta鈥檚 ShareIT public procurement program has passed the spend milestone of $50 million since it was implemented in 2017. This equates to a total estimated savings for its members of +$30 million (over their average education discount rate). This milestone comes as the program adds a variety of new firewall […]
Network use jumps in 2021-22 school year
It’s hard to believe, but students are now in their third year of schooling while dealing with COVID-19. During each year 鈥� and each interruption 鈥� 知阴视频 has seen wildly different network traffic patterns. While I do plan to write about our experience as a whole, I’ll save that for […]
Canada鈥檚 NREN bolsters security with MANRS
The partners in Canada鈥檚 National Research and Education Network (NREN) are pleased to announce today that Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security, or MANRS, has been implemented on the majority of Canada鈥檚 research and education networks. Ninety-nine per cent of organizations connected to the NREN are now聽connected to a MANRS-compliant […]