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OCRI/ITAC Present Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.
Chairman,
Live in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre
As part of ITAC's commitment to bring the most influential and notable industry
visionaries to Ottawa, OCRI and ITAC are pleased to present an opportunity for
Ottawa’s technology community to hear Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
Corporation at a special OCRI and ITAC breakfast. The breakfast will take place
February 20, 2007 at the National Arts Centre.
Click here for further details.
Please note that corporate boxes are now SOLD OUT.
The box office will open for single and multiple ticket sales on December 8.
FSA and ITAC to
Collaborate to Offer February Conference for the Canadian Microelectronics
Industry
November 29, 2006 – FSA and
ITAC have announced that they will cooperate to provide thought leadership
opportunities for the microelectronics industry. The first project in this
collaboration will be a conference, “Creating a Robust IP Ecosystem in
Microelectronics,” which will be held in Ottawa in February, 2007.
Click here for
further details.
Fiscal Update
Moves Canada Toward Productivity Improvement
November 24, 2006 – ITAC, which has advocated the need for Canada to address its
lagging productivity performance for nearly a decade now, greeted the proposals
outlined by Finance Minister James Flaherty in the Fiscal Update he presented
yesterday as positive steps in the right direction. Plese
click here for
the ITAC news release.
OPS Technology Town Hall
Ron Huxter, Corporate Chief Technology Officer for
the Government of Ontario, would like to invite you to attend the OPS Technology
Town Hall on December 7, 2006.
This is the second in a series of open dialogue information sharing sessions
designed to improve your understanding of issues and topics that influence the
outlooks and directions in I&IT at the Government of Ontario, as well as being
an opportunity for the Ontario Public Service to better familiarize themselves
with the innovative trends and developments that are emerging in the IT industry
in a non-sales setting.
This session will be focused on "Accessing your Information Anytime, Anywhere,
with Any Device" and will feature technology updates as well as industry analyst
impressions on business drivers and preparations needed to get ready for a world
of universal access.
A light lunch will be provided, but you must register in advance for this event.
TO REGISTER, please indicate your interest by sending an email with your name
and telephone number to: events.occs@mgs.gov.on.ca
or contact Carolyn Haydu, IT Excellence Unit, 416-327-1937
New Estimates for ICT Investment Gap Between Canada and the United States
The Centre for the Study of Living
Standards has updated their estimate of the gap between Canada and the US
rates of ICT investment per worker. Estimates for 2005 suggest the situation is
improving slightly, up 54% in 2005 from 51% in 2004. (This number was revised
from the estimate given in the CSLS study, "What
Explains the Canada-U.S. ICT Intensity Gap?" prepared for ITAC in December
of 2005.) Details of the current estimates are
available here.
November 2006 NetFlash Highlights:
November 21, 2006 – 2006 Executive Forum on Microelectronics • Ontario Moves
to Harmonize Federal and Provincial Corporate Tax • Rob Schock Explains How to
Do Business with Xerox • ITAC to appear before House committee on privacy issues
• Public Sector Business Committee Update • Branham Group Outlines Size and
Future Direction of US Outsourcing Market and Canadian Nearshore Opportunities •
ITAC partners with Deloitte to examine talent management • CWC and ITAC partner
to advance the interests of women in technology careers • ITAC SMB Breakfast
Series • NASSCOM Mission 2007 • HR Forum Update • ITAC members win Microsoft
Canada Partner Program IMPACT Awards • EPSC outlines environmental design
initiatives of electronics industry
CWC
and ITAC partner to advance the interests of women in technology careers
November 16, 2006 – Canadian
Women in Communications (CWC) and the Information Technology Association of
Canada (ITAC) are pleased to announce a new cooperative agreement aimed at
supporting the participation and advancement of women in the information and
communications technology (ICT) sector through involvement in CWC and its
programs. Please
click here for the full text of the news release.
 A frontline perspective on the Indian IT Revolution
The TATA lecture series, offered in association with ITAC, aims
to introduce leading thinkers and activists in the information
and communications technology revolution to leaders in Canadian
industry, government and academia. On Thursday, October 5, Dr. F.C. Kohli, Founder of Tata Consultancy Services and father of
the Indian software industry, spoke to an engaged crowd of
students and business leaders at York University's Schulich
School of Business.
Dr. Kohli led the IT revolution in India. A trained electrical
engineer, he founded the IT industry in India within the Tata
Group - a diverse business conglomerate with industry holdings
in steel, automotive, power and real estate. Tata first
conceived of large scale use of IT by computerizing every aspect
of India's power systems. Dr. Kolhi said that Indians realized
that IT was an area in which they could be considered world
leaders, as they have a natural ability for IT. "Here was a a
new technology that required the ability to think clearly - this
we had plenty of in India."
Under Dr. Kohli's guidance, TCS has grown to be the largest
Indian exporter of IT services and one of the largest global IT
services companies. TCS’ success has contributed immeasurably to
the success of India’s IT revolution. Since 1999-2000, the
Indian IT and IT enabled services industry has grown at a
calculated annual growth rate of 28 per cent. It is worth is
over $36-billion today and employs 1.287 million people. Most
notably, through, Dr. Kohli said that half of India's
productivity growth is due to IT knowledge and use.
For more information about ITAC and its partnership with NASSCOM,
please click here:
http://www.itac.ca/PolicyandAdvocacy/nasscom.html
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