Industry committee  The confluence of those technologies, right now, as we've talked about, is driving economies and connecting people. If you can have nations fall because of collaboration with social media...the power of it is immense. Not to recognize that and the benefit of that within the conte

Industry committee  The Ontario government has implemented a program, privacy by design. It's out of the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Ann Cavoukian. It walks through a fact-based process that allows both government and agencies that want to use cloud computing.... I

Industry committee  Once again, I think we need to be adopters of it. At a government level, we need to be consuming it. A BlackBerry, iPad, or any of these devices is not merely there to e-mail and play solitaire. It's a device that you can run a business on, and this is what truly innovative compa

Industry committee  I would say if we looked at what the U.K. has just done within the legal framework, the privacy and data protection framework of the EU, there must be some incredible learning to take away from there. If they can do it, I'm not sure why Canada can't do it, because they have a fra

Industry committee  Martin hosted a panel at our last conference in Banff in March. It was a panel of his peers, mostly lawyers who know this issue to a t. It was fact based. It was unemotional. I found it interesting, but some were a little bit bored by it. It was a practical discussion. It drove o

Industry committee  Competition is good. Competition is very good. As I said earlier, if you have an employee who wants to use a cloud-based solution but the cost per month on his mobile device is well over $1,000 because of the usage costs, I'm going to tell that employee that he's not using it, an

Industry committee  Most businesses can't live without Internet of some sort. Most businesses in Canada have that access. With Internet access can come access to those cloud-based solutions, so if you have that, you are doing quite well. The other challenge is in certain regions. If you go out into

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. Look at Australia. They have a national broadband strategy. It's not cheap, but neither was the moon shot. They're doing it because they want to enable all those diverse communities. They have a very broad country as well, and if you get that into the hands of

Industry committee  Spectrum is not necessarily something I've been following in detail.

Industry committee  They're a key element.

Industry committee  We can provide some studies which state that they now believe the cloud can be more secure than the status quo.

Industry committee  To add to that, there is a point to note that we can provide to the committee afterwards. About two months ago the CIA announced that they were awarding a contract to Amazon Web Services for $600 million to build their cloud. Even that organization which has the incredible resou

Industry committee  From a U.K. perspective, any kind of modernization.... If they had a business requirement from a department, and that business requirement was to manage a grants program for a term of one year, they would look at that app store and see five providers, let's say, and one with the

Industry committee  I haven't seen anything more recent than that, except for the e-government report that came out in March of this year. Those are the two reference points that I saw. I would respond in a couple of different ways. The overall climate that we described among Canadian enterprises

Industry committee  I'll respond in a couple of ways, and I'll ask Martin to chime in as well. Most modern providers of cloud computing are no different from traditional providers of outsourcing. They have to have a service level agreement that has to meet a certain uptime and they build out their