[Newsbot]

Title: Tories want Canadians to catch up to digital wave
Category: Political
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2010-04-05 09:59:03
Canadian

[tritium]

Great!! One could hope for industry deregulation and the abolishment of the CRTC as a start.

[Regina]

It would be nice...........but I bet they're just trying to figure out another revenue stream on the backs of someone else's work.

[KorbenDeck]

Just make sure some 16 year old kid can't bring our whole economy to its knees for fun.

[QBall]

$1:

The Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Business Innovation last year noted that the average investment in information and communications technology per worker in Canada was only 60 per cent that of the American worker.

Well, there is such as thing as progressing too far too fast. While it's great you've decided to upgrade your IT resources, if you haven't figured out how to fully utilize the technology, or more importantly, how to ensure that the technology doesn't turn into a security risk, then caution becomes the optimum word. Advancing for the sake of advancing if foolhardy.

[herbie]

You want IT decision making to be in the hands of ignorant old white men in gov't?
Like the ones who think a Privacy Law in Victoria will protect our medical info on a server in the USA?
Like the ones who allowed a private company access files that you can't so they can scan your license plate when you cross the bridge and send a bill to your mailing address, but are too fucking stupid to set up an online method to pay the toll?
They can gut Privacy laws for profit and convenience but don't know about PayPal?
Yeah, these bozos are gonna 'help'.

[Public_Domain]

[bootlegga]

We've always been years behind other nations when it comes to technology for the simple reason that we've got a low population base spread over a huge geographical area. It easier and more affordable to expand or roll out a fancy new technology when you have a large customer base in a small area, but far more difficult and expensive when they're spread out over a huge country like ours.

Most of the 'technological leaders' have large populations crammed into relatively small geographic areas (like Japan, South Korea, the UK, etc). Japan, for example, has 4 times Canada's entire population in an area HALF the size of Alberta! Even countries like the US have small regions with tens of million crammed into them (California, Texas, the NE, and the SE).