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Cyber Summit keynote is encouraging thousands of women and girls to learn to code

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The organizers of the 2017 Cyber Summit are pleased to announce that Heather Payne, Founder of Ladies Learning Code, will provide the second keynote address. Ladies Learning Code is a national not-for-profit that is encouraging thousands of women and girls to learn to code. Since 2011, Ladies Learning Code has expanded from its Toronto headquarters to […]

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Representatives from ShareIT at the 2017 CUCCIO Awards

Massive collaborative effort nabs Alberta educators national IT award

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Only weeks after officially launching, Alberta’s ShareIT procurement service has been nationally recognized by CUCCIO, Canada’s community of information technology leaders in higher education, for its groundbreaking collective achievement. At last week’s Canadian Higher Education IT Conference (CANHEIT), the Alberta post-secondary service received the esteemed CUCCIO Collaboration Award. ShareIT is a shared service that leverages

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Cybera’s data science team to explore Canada’s internet regulatory process

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A year after launching its data science team, Cybera is now ready to take on external projects from stakeholders looking to discover the utility of their data. For their first major project, the team has received funding to examine the thousands of documents and testimonials that were provided to the CRTC for its 2016 “basic

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Alberta Post-Secondaries Come Together to Share IT Services, Expertise

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In a groundbreaking move that will increase the technology capabilities of Alberta’s educators, while reducing their IT costs, a group of 19 post-secondary institutions (PSIs) have united to share their IT experience, knowledge, and procurement practices. ShareIT is an Alberta-based shared service that leverages economies of scope and scale — along with group procurement —

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Cyber Summit opening keynote sees global internet access as a “critical” need

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Organizers of the 2017 Cyber Summit are pleased to announce that Greg Wyler, Founder & Executive Chairman of OneWeb, will be the opening keynote. A successful telecommunications entrepreneur, Wyler founded OneWeb in 2012 with the mission of connecting every unconnected school in the world by 2022. OneWeb’s new satellite constellation, a major component to achieving this

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Astronomers Use Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud To Find ‘Very Unusual’ Star System

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Adapted from the University of Alberta press release This graphic features an artist’s impression of the extraordinarily close stellar pairing, known as X9. Photo credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Astronomers from the University of Alberta have found evidence of a star that orbits around a black hole every 28 minutes. This could be the

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Alberta’s Rapid Access Cloud unveils free tools for powerful computing and deep learning

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As data analysis becomes more complex — with people looking to sort through, process and visualize information from massive volumes of data — traditional computers are proving ill-suited to carry out such deep learning / artificial intelligence work. Graphics processing units (GPUs), however, are a great fit for these applications. Today, Cybera is pleased to

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

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

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

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Cybera recognized for its support of gender diversity in IT

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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 Educator’s First Major Shared Service Passes the Test

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When over 53,000 students at three of Alberta’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 Alberta’s IT staff. The institution has successfully transferred the operations of one of Alberta’s first educational shared services from Cybera (Alberta’s not-for-profit

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“CY-Fi” brings super-fast Wi-Fi speeds to Calgary’s tech innovators

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

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Disaster recovery cloud resources available to Albertans

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Businesses or individuals who are affected by the fires in and around Fort McMurray are invited to use Alberta’s Rapid Access Cloud to temporarily store a backup of their servers, or get their websites, email hosting or other services back up and running. Available through Cybera, Alberta’s not-for-profit technology accelerator, this free disaster recovery service

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