I guess from my angle, what I'm seeing at my university is an explosion of creativity with old boxes of knowledge. History is a very traditional discipline, very archival, and we were very slow in adapting to new technology and new media.
What we're seeing now is this tremendous creativity, where community history, oral history, new media, and the arts collide. Great things are happening. Of course, this kind of work needs funding. It needs to grow, and sometimes these good ideas become commercial ideas.
In my mind, if you're talking about building capacity or training people on these new technologies and how to access these new technologies, you have to realize that content should not be an afterthought. It's what often drives people to the technology.
I think we need targeted programs that fund grassroots or local projects, but also national ones. I think a multi-approach is needed, as there's no one way. Even with things like server space, if you start talking about video files and so on, you need real server space. Having that kind of infrastructure for Canadians to speak to one another, I think, would be huge.