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Canada’s “Moonshot”,the Intelligent Communities Movement
and the Role of Public Libraries
OLA Superconference 2011K. Dubeau, SDI, Newmarket PL
There’s something happening …• Multiple conversations about Canada’s Role in the
Digital Economy– Canada 3.0 – “Moonshot”– i-Canada – a New National Dream– Intelligent Communities Foundation
• Today: share some of the thinking, and ask the question:
What is the role for Public Libraries?
• Started in 2009 in Stratford, Ontario• Collaboration with University of Waterloo• In 2010: More than 2000 attendees• Key Message: “Take stock of today so you can
imagine tomorrow”• Shared Goal: 2017 - Canada’s “Moonshot”
By 2017, any one, can do anything online in Canada
Five Streams:
• Creating – developing content & commercialization opportunities
• Learning – finding and retaining talent and research opportunities
• Changing – how digital rights, regulations, policies need to change
• Empowering – focusing on networks, infrastructure and mobility
• Revolutionizing – focusing on Health ICT
Creating:• The tools have changed us; the medium for opportunity -> Digital Experience
Management• How to manage and create distribution techniques• How to monetize the channel• Learning how to rally communities around your content : new trust models• The trust enabled by the community allows transactions at a higher value• Role of “packager”, role of “distributer” in an era of explosion of content
• Risk fund to support artistic experimentation• Single, integrated portal for gov’t services
Learning:
• Not only about the technology, but the practices and processes• Innovation occurs at the margin – true innovation is experienced
by the majority as uncomfortable• Innovation-based leadership – is Canada ready?• Google’s recipe for success – 98% failure rate
• National and provincial plan to integrate digital resources across K-12 curricula
• Develop open source repository of resources
Changing:• Become more strategic with Canadian content policy• Begin to develop a taxonomy for facilitating open and cost-effective
rights management and transactions• Commercial and technical infrastructure to build strong companies
Empowering:“Next generation networks are going to be as important to where businesses locate today, as railways were in the 50’s”
• Approach next generation network infrastructure as a public utility• Wi fi networks made widely available and accessible (on par with
basic cable)• Harness the energy, momentum and vision of the attendees to keep
moving development forwards
Revolutionizing:• Call to digitize the health care system by 2017: enabling practitioners
with digital tools, automating processes to increase productivity and allowing patients to manage own health care
• All levels of government to standardize and harmonize Health ICT standards
• Call for an innovation strategy that leverages the current 182 billion spent by Canadians annually on health care.
Wireless – Future of Mobile Technology
• Opportunity: multi-lingual, multi-cultural, new tactile interfaces -> poised @ massive explosion of creativity that will shift paradigms
• Need to nurture “folks in the garage” -> innovation coming from outside traditional channels – how can you identify, harness?
• Pace of technology change is an issue• Devices – continued fragmentation, yet 60-70% of gross margin $
being eaten up by a relatively small # of manufacturers• Applications eating up all available bandwidth – wired networks are
becoming full; hybrid networks• VC Investment – lowest level in 14 years• Thin client devices - cheaper to get to developing world than a
truckload of books
Digital Strategies Around the World
• Ignore other countries at our peril• Sense that Canada does not recognize the _scale_ of what is
happening across the world• Taiwan – 10 years ago, launched e-Taiwan, 4 years ago, launched
M-Taiwan (M-Learning: schools, museum, library, gallery, M-Services – warehousing, local gov’t, harbour, healthcare, M-Life – entertainment, culture) now launching U-Taiwan – ubiquitous network
• Singapore – iN2015< Imagine Your World: combining research, teaching, incubators
• Asia – slowly turning back on Western world – are becoming the innovation leaders
• R&D $ -significant shift in last 5 years; lg. Multinational companies now spend 62% of R&D in China and India
iCanada Declaration
• Program from the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA)
• Need for high speed (ultra-fast) networking to support/spur innovation
• Statistics: • Canada is 22nd out of 30 countries – broadband adoption network capacity, pricing• Canada’s speeds are 1/100 to 1/1000 of the top 20 competitive nations• Canada ranks 33rd globally in download speeds to the home
• Vision:• Come together across many sectors, share ideas, best practices, strategies to form a national plan, a national collaborative• BY 2020: Canada is one of the world leaders in global Smart, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Communities• http://www.cata.ca/Advocacy/iCanada/default.aspx
iCanada Declaration
”We need a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social safety network through the creation of smarter communities that are information-rich, interconnected, and able to provide opportunities to all citizens”;
•Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities, (2009); Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard and Stanley S. Litow, IBM*.
ISSUE: HOW TO STIMULATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CREATE JOBS AND DRIVE THE SOCIAL AGENDA IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
ANSWER: CREATE GREAT PLACES AND SPACES WITHIN A
FRAMEWORK OF ESTABLISHING THE WORLD’S LEADING GREEN AND SMART COMMUNITY
ANSWER: CREATE GREAT PLACES AND SPACES WITHIN A
FRAMEWORK OF ESTABLISHING THE WORLD’S LEADING GREEN AND SMART COMMUNITY
ANSWER: CREATE GREAT PLACES AND SPACES WITHIN A
FRAMEWORK OF ESTABLISHING THE WORLD’S LEADING GREEN AND SMART COMMUNITY
The Waterfront Toronto Example From This To This
And Much More……………!
i-Waterfront: The 21st Century Intelligent Community
INNOVATION
SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMIC
Buildings, Parks, Ravines, Mountains, Waterfronts
Communications, Roads, Rail, Trails, Transit, Water, Energy, Waste
Creativity Index, Open Innovation, Synergy, Facilitation, Community Animation, Social Networks
Live, Learn, Work, Play
e-Health, i-Building, e-Education, e-Arts, e-Government, e-Community, e-Business
How Do We Create Intelligent Communities?
LIFE
APPLICATIONS
COLLABORATION ECOSYSTEM™
INFRASTRUCTURE
PLACE
i-COA®: Intelligent Community Open Architecture®© 2010 All Rights Reserved: Hutchison Management International
The Foundation for Innovation?.....The Open Access Intelligent Ultra Broadband Communications Infrastructure
Computing
Data Gathering
Networking
Revolution in Information Systems
New Frontiers For Digital CommunitySolutions
Technology Push Application Pull
InternetComputation
Tele-communication
WWWOpen Access Intelligent Infrastructure
First-wave Second-wave
Adapted from: Dan Atkins – Chair NSF, Cyberinfrastructure Panel
Third-wave
Intelligent Communities
The Winning Characteristics:•Economic Growth and Investment•New Knowledge Economy Employment•Social Prosperity•Community Collaboration•Digital Democracy•Effective Marketing •Sustainability •Advanced Communications Infrastructure
Intelligent Communities
"I think one of the great triumphs was the recognition of Waterloo as one of the most Intelligent Communities in the world in 2007. That was not simply the existence here of good ICT tools, it was how well the community was using these tools to improve not simply the prosperity of the community but the lives of everyone.“
– David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic and author, and the outgoing president of the University of Waterloo. He succeeded Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada on Oct. 1
Intelligent Community For
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org
What role do public libraries play in this transformation?
Opportunities
• Join the conversation; engage• Libraries uniquely positioned to advocate for
residents: • Education/awareness• Digital Inclusion: access, affordability, support• Community-based collaborative strategies • Knowledge repositories• Support Innovation engines
What Next?
• Raise the i-Canada declaration• Plan to participate (even virtually) in Canada 3.0• Become involved in advocacy issues (UBB)• Educate the local community – roundtables, guest speakers;
identify champions• Engage with other libraries on Intelligent Communities• Investigate fibre/broadband infrastructure• Discover what is happening in your community by reaching
out to Town, Chambers, schools, post-secondary etc.• Take a leadership position
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