An Integrated Digital Environment in Support of Canada's Research, Innovation and Education Communities

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Submitted by CANARIE 2010–07–09 09:38:57 EDT

Theme: Digital Infrastructure
Idea Status: +26 | Total Votes: 28 | Comments: 3

Canada needs a strategy for an integrated digital environment in support of research, innovation and education, together with a vision of how the various elements, and the organizations that provide them, must align.

The benefits of this environment include an enhanced capacity for innovation; strengthened leverage of Canadian talent; increased support for content creators and innovators; and maximized leverage of the intellectual capital of Canada's highly qualified personnel (HQP)

Comments

ChuckHamilton — 2010–07–09 15:02:11 EDT wrote

An integrated digital environment would better support Canada's Research, Innovation and Education communities and the global innovation community as well. What is abundantly clear is that today's disconnected and disparate knowledge communities fail to leverage collective wisdom and services for innovation opportunity. It is our knowhow that lacks integration.

The classroom, our universities, our workplaces and research environments are simply not big enough to foster the level of innovation required today. Front line innovation spaces are more akin to the web itself, acting like an infinitely scalable collection of people and technologies working as a knowledge creation collective.

As we struggle to provide cost effective spaces and experiences in cross geography, cross cultural global settings, we learn first hand that silo organizations, while vibrant nerve centers, are also bottlenecks in the delivery ecosystem.

Evolving second generation web spaces reach far beyond the physical reference points we once understood and are expanding exponentially. If we hope be able to innovate and prosper at the confluence of these spaces we are going to need to be among the first to embrace some of the new virtual social environments now forming. New virtual landscapes, coupled with industry best practices form a new type of infrastructure, which connects us all. These hybrid, well integrated spaces that are forever changing what collaboration and innovation mean for the next generation.

perimeter — 2010–07–13 14:06:44 EDT wrote

As more traditional sectors fall prey to global levelling, it will be absolutely critical that Canada develop a strategy to attract and nuture organizations providing research, innovation and education opportunities. Digital infrastructure is a key component of this plan and this submission is an important summary of what many of us believe are the fundamental requirements of a digital infrastructure strategy.

artmcdonald — 2010–07–13 14:08:50 EDT wrote

I would like to support strongly the arguments made convcerning the value to Canada pf an integrated digital environment for the future as described in the joint submission from CANARIE and its co–submitters. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and the new SNOLAB international underground laboratory are world leaders in basic physics and astrophysics research and continue to benefit by the excellent digital connectivity provided by CANARIE, ORION and by high performance computing centers such as HPCVL. We are now hosting the best fundamental science experiments in the world as envisioned by the CFI international program that funded SNOLAB. It will be possible for Canada to lead this exciting and important area of fundamental science using the lowest radioactivity laboratory in the world if Canada maintains its leadership in providing an integrated digital environment as outlined in the CANARIE submission. In the process we can showcase Canada's scientific and technological abilities internationally, attract and train the next generation of top students for high tech industry and academia and create economic advantages through innovation and progress in understanding the basic laws of nature at a fundamental level. I encourage you to consider the arguments made in this submission very seriously and enable Canada to remain at the forefront with a high–quality digital environment for Research, Innovation and Education.

Professor Art McDonald Gordon and
Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics
Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Associate Director, SNOLAB Institute Stirling Hall, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

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