2016

Using Technology Responsibly

Lessons learned from the Cyber Summit 2016: Using Technology Responsibly In an increasingly interconnected world, how can people maintain some semblance of privacy while preventing their devices from being hacked? More importantly, are we doing enough to ensure the generations to come have the tools they need to navigate an increasingly interconnected and automated world? […]

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Non-profit tech advice helps local independent film society enter the app business

As more Canadian not-for-profit arts organizations make the leap from paper-based systems to online tools, new opportunities for collaborating, sharing and innovating are emerging. Such is the case for the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA), whose efforts to build and expand a software tool for sharing its videos and services has created a national

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Albertan elected to global internet advisory council

An active voice in Albertaโ€™s telecommunications community, Alyssa Moore, has been elected to the Advisory Council of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). She is the first Albertan, and first member of Canadaโ€™s National Research and Education Network, to take on this role. Over the next three years, Alyssa will work with an elected

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New reports from Cybera give the low-down on Alberta’s networking capabilities

Where are all the fibre networks in Alberta? How manyย free WiFiย spotsย do we have access to in the province? And how soon until we seeย internet delivered by drones? After a year of researching, Cybera has unveiled a comprehensive update to the networking chapter of its 2014ย State of Alberta Digital Infrastructure Report. The in-depth review looks atย the

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Canada’s Internet Performance: What the Numbers Show

By the Cybera Data Science Team Introduction To an ever increasing degree, participation in the economy and society at large is mediated by the internet. If people donโ€™t have good internet access, they feel disenfranchised. Currently in Canada, there are many, many people who feel disenfranchised. For several years now, it has seemed that internet

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Cybera recognized for its support of gender diversity in IT

This week, Cybera’s Vice President of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Barb Carra, was pleased to represent Cybera as it accepted the inaugural KNOVO Award of Distinction for corporate gender diversity. Cybera was one of 11 organizations honoured at the awards ceremony, which was held on Tuesday in Calgary’s Jubilee Auditorium. KNOVO was launched in 2015

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Alberta Educatorโ€™s First Major Shared Service Passes the Test

When over 53,000 students at three of Albertaโ€™s post-secondary institutions went online this month to register for courses and communicate with their teachers, it was under the watchful eye of the University of Albertaโ€™s IT staff. The institution has successfully transferred the operations of one of Albertaโ€™s first educational shared services from Cybera (Albertaโ€™s not-for-profit

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That Escalated Quickly

One of Cybera’s newest projects involves creating a pilot Identity Federation for Alberta K-12 School Authorities. This Identity Federation, known as MyUnifiED, will give participating school staff and students the ability to log into different web services using their school’s login account — they no longer need to have a separate set of credentials stored

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Area51 Declassified

Welcome to the Rapid Access Cloud Experimental Region NOTE: The Area51 cloud region was decommissioned in 2018 Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud provides a stable and reliable platform for non-production, demonstrative, or development purposes, using tried and well-tested OpenStack services like OpenStack Compute (nova) and OpenStack Object Storage (swift). Introducing new services to the Rapid Access

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Municipalities โ€œto the right of the dotโ€. Imagine the new opportunities!

By Richard Schreier,ย Project Managerโ€‹,ย Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Until recently, there was not a lot of choice in what domain name came after the dot in your web address. Traditionally, .CA or .COM were two of about 250 top-level domains (or TLDs in domain industry jargon) available, most of which were very specific to the

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Classroom Case Study: Working with NoSQL Databases on the Rapid Access Cloud

By Michael Strobl, PhD Student, University of Alberta A common use of Cyberaโ€™s Rapid Access Cloud has been for classroom learning. Instructors from a number of Alberta institutions have used the cloud to run student assignments, teach the basics of cloud computing, or run modern-day analytics. This post highlights one such use case from the

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โ€œCY-Fiโ€ brings super-fast Wi-Fi speeds to Calgaryโ€™s tech innovators

Visitors accessing the public Wi-Fi at Calgaryโ€™s Alastair Ross Technology Centre (ARTC) will now experience some of the fastest internet in Calgary. The ARTC โ€” which offers affordable office space and business advisory services to over 100 local start-ups โ€” has recently connected to Albertaโ€™s Research and Education Network to provide innovators with an invaluable

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