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Delving Through 65,000 Pages of Government Submissions: The Challenges

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Authors: David Ackerman, Alyssa Moore, David Chan, Tatiana Meleshko, Byron Chu Last June, Cybera’s data scientists took on a monumental task: to create a tool that can easily examine the thousands of documents and testimonials that were provided to the CRTC for its 2016 “basic telecommunications service” consultation, and search for key words and common […]

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A Christmas IPv4 Miracle

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Christmas came early for Cybera, as we recently received the #1 item on our wish list: more IPv4 addresses! We had been “getting by” for years on our allocation of 2,000 IPv4 addresses, but as the popularity of our Rapid Access Cloud continued to grow, our stock of addresses became depleted (an individual IPv4 address

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Cyber Summit 2018 moving to a new location

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Mark your calendars for November 6-8, 2018, when the annual Cyber Summit will be in a new location! Located one-hour west of Calgary, the newly-renovated Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge is a one-of-a-kind mountain destination offering year-round activities and breathtaking views. The Cyber Summit is the annual gathering of Western Canada's public, education and start-up technology leaders. The

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Cybera maintenance

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Subject: Cybera maintenance Category: Scheduled Hardware upgrade for Google Cache Server (No down-time expected) Start Time: Saturday, Dec 16, 2017, 9:00 MDT End Time: Sunday, Dec 17, 2017, 16:00 MDT Duration: 31 hours During the time frame indicated above, Cybera will be performing hardware upgrade for Google Cache Server in Cybera. Google Services should not be affected

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New Board Members Bring K-12 Education, Business Analytics Experience to Cybera

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While Cybera continues to expand its role in the public sector as Alberta’s not-for-profit technology accelerator, its newest board members promise to reinforce efforts to improve internet connectivity and the reach of data science in the province. At its November AGM, Cybera elected two new board members: Brenda MacDonald, Deputy Superintendent of Clearview Public Schools,

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New virtual firewall services will offer improved digital security to Alberta’s public sector

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Two new cloud-based systems from Cybera and CIRA are giving educators “defence in depth”, while improving the cost and flexibility of their online systems The rise and increasing pervasiveness of the internet in our work, education, and play has also led to the rise of malware, spam, and harmful websites. Firewalls are a necessary tool

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Alberta Educators Save Nearly $1.7 Million in IT Procurement in 2017

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Six months into the launch of Cybera’s ShareIT procurement service, Alberta’s education institutions have already saved nearly $1.7 million. ShareIT began in June 2017 as a collaboration between 19 post-secondary institutions who were looking to reduce the cost of their IT hardware and service purchases. Facilitated by Cybera (Alberta’s not-for-profit technology accelerator), the program has leveraged

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Cybera boosts network to increase capacity, reduce costs

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With Cybera’s network transporting more data than ever before, staff have taken steps to boost the overall capacity of CyberaNet, while improving the affordability of our bulk buying group. Reducing the cost of the Internet Buying Group This past summer, Cybera reduced the rates for the Internet Buying Group for the ninth time, from $3.75 per Mbps

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High-speed drug discovery

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A supercomputing collaboration between Alberta and Ontario, made possible by the national research and education network (NREN), is speeding up life-saving drug discoveries. How do you screen billions of drug compounds to find the right one? Connect a research team at the University of Alberta with a supercomputer 2,700 km away in Ontario using a

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What Digital Services Does Your Education Institution Need? (And What Is Already Available?)

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This month’s Convergence Conference in Calgary will feature a pre-conference workshop on Making the Most of Cybera: Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource on Wednesday, October 25. This half-day session will provide an overview of the many services Cybera members have access to, including: Internet Buying Group (the internet bulk buying program) Shared firewall pilot High-speed National Research and

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Making it… thunder? Notes from the inaugural JupyterCon

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UC Berkeley’s Introduction To Data Science course has just become its fastest growing course – ever. The class has 1,200 students enrolled, representing more than 60 different majors. Under the hood of the course? Jupyter notebooks, used to power the interactive textbook students are using to learn concepts of programming and data science. Classes there

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Virtual Reality Provides Access to New Learning Environments

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Kris Hodgson and Tyler Heaton, from Lethbridge College and the University of Lethbridge, respectively, will deliver a full-day workshop on Introducing Virtual Reality to the Classroom at the 2017 Cyber Summit. This workshop, being held on Nov. 7 in Banff, will showcase how virtual reality can create new kinds of learning environments. Why should we

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Three-day makeathon creates specialized solutions for people with disabilities

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Article by: Brian Cechmanek The Tikkun Olam Makers:Calgary (TOM), run by local non-profit Kadima Dynamics, proudly celebrated Calgary’s spirit of innovation at its third annual makeathon event. Local engineers and designers (‘Makers’) collaborated with people living with disability (‘Need-Knowers’) to create real-life solutions for their everyday challenges. From August 24-27, 13 teams of 4-6 individuals,

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Alberta K-12 schools invited to make use of shared IT procurement agreements

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Less than six months after the successful launch of the Alberta post-secondary ShareIT procurement service, K-12 schools are now invited to benefit from this cost-saving program. ShareIT is an Alberta-based shared service that was formed by 19 post-secondary institutions in the province. Together, they have leveraged economies of scope and scale to give participants access

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Make your voice heard on the future of rural broadband

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The House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is undertaking a study on Broadband Connectivity in Rural Canada. Cybera will be submitting a brief to the Committee. We are inviting members, stakeholders and interested parties to share their experiences and input with us to incorporate into our submission. We believe this is

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The dream of connecting Canada’s north has taken a huge leap forward

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The Northwest Territories (NWT), like much of Canada’s north, faces serious disparities with internet access. A 2014 government survey found that, on average, around 20% of households in NWT were without internet. But this is just the average; in communities such as Fort Providence, Nahanni Butte, or Detah, the reality is that nearly two-thirds of

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