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Internet Buying Group Offers 11th Major Price Decrease
As a holiday present to our members, Cybera is once again dropping the price of bandwidth for the Internet Buying Group. As of January 1, 2019, the price will go down from $2.25 per Mbps to $1.75 per Mbps, a 22% decrease. This is the 11th price drop for the […]
New Hub in Red Deer Will Help Schools and Researchers Collaborate Easier and Faster
After years of negotiations and maintenance work, Cybera is pleased to announce that a high-speed networking point of presence (PoP) has been installed in Red Deer. Red Deer College and the Red Deer Public School District were the first institutions to connect to the new PoP, at a rate of […]
Introducing the AI Initiative: Alberta’s Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Source
By Shea Johnson, Founder of the AI Initiative What is the AI Initiative? Borne from the drive to learn more about artificial intelligence, my vision for the AI Initiative is to provide post-secondary students, the general public, and eventually K-12 students with the knowledge and resources to work with AI. […]
ShareIT Adds Security Services and Knowledge-Sharing Opportunities
As global hacks and data breaches continue to dominate headlines, Alberta educators are moving to increase the sophistication of their security tools, while collaborating on a joint line of defense. Last month, Alberta’s ShareIT procurement program added security services to its catalogue of offerings. In addition, ShareIT is now offering […]
SuperNet Outage
Category: Network service disruption on the Calgary SuperNet Start Time: Thursday, Nov 1, 2018, 08:23 MDT End Time: Thursday, Nov 1, 2018, 09:40 MDT Duration: 77 minutes This was a wide spread outage and service interruption to multiple services in the Calgary and aggregating communities. Axia dispatched a tech to […]
8 Reasons To Attend The Cyber Summit
With the 2018 Cyber Summit just around the corner, we wanted to give you even more reasons why you don’t want to miss out! Top 8 reasons to attend the 2018 Cyber Summit: 1. Hands-on learning. Big level thinking. With over 24 speakers, two fantastic keynotes, and two hands-on workshops, […]
Andrew Keen On How To Fix The Future
In the lead up to the 2018 Cyber Summit, we interviewed keynote speaker Andrew Keen to get a sneak peak of his talk. Keen is a well-known provocateur when it comes to discussing the digital revolution. He has worked in Silicon Valley since 1995, and in recent years, has focused […]
ConnectIN:Testing the gaps in First Nations’ Internet connectivity
Getting adequate access to internet continues to be an issue for First Nation communities. But the extent of this problem is still not fully known. In 2019-2020, ConnectIN evaluated the internet connectivity of First Nation communities in western Canada. Led by led by three First Nations regional technology organizations, its […]
ShareIT expands its catalogue offerings
Alberta’s ShareIT procurement service has successfully entered its second year, marking $3.38 million in savings thus far for participating members. Now, the catalogue of end-user computing and networking hardware that can be purchased through ShareIT has expanded to include more products (under the categories of laptops, desktops, tablets, and wireless […]
JupyterCon: (Some of) The Callysto Team Goes Global!
This past August, myself and fellow Cybera data sciencer Byron Chu, as well as some colleagues from the Pacific Institute of Mathematics (PIMS), travelled to New York to attend JupyterCon. JupyterCon is an annual event for both users and developers of Jupyter notebooks to come together to discuss how they […]
Foreshadow: What you need to know about the IaaS vulnerability
Intel recently raised awareness of several new vulnerabilities that affect its hardware processors. The vulnerabilities, known as L1 Terminal Fault, or “Foreshadow”, enable malicious users to obtain sensitive information from a processor's cache that should normally be secured and unaccessible. The Foreshadow series of vulnerabilities is particularly dangerous in Infrastructure […]
Helping Edmontonians Access The Services They Need
Hundreds of Edmontonians are able to access benefits more easily, thanks to a new tool hosted on Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud. Individuals, families and community workers in Edmonton are spending less time sifting through the myriad of information on financial needs and assistance, thanks to the recently launched online screening […]
Cybera’s Chief Operating Officer Selected To Sit On Alberta’s Talent Advisory Council on Technology
Cybera’s Barb Carra is one of 16 Albertans selected to form the province’s Talent Advisory Council on Technology. Together, they will provide advice and input to the Government of Alberta on strategies, investments and outcomes on tech-related training programs. The council – a mix of leaders from the tech industry and post-secondary institutions, […]
The Ins and Outs of Blockchain — What Alberta Organizations Need to Know
By Cybera’s Data Science Team Key Blockchain Terms Smart contract: A programming technology that validates a transaction automatically. It can authorize or decline a transaction, based on whether it meets pre-existing conditions. The smart contract could be compared to a banking program that immediately declines your debit card payment when […]
Western Canadian teachers trial new technology to build computational thinking
Callysto training workshops empower teachers to lead digital literacy programs in the classroom Teachers from across Western Canada are embracing their technological curiosity and learning to navigate a new educational platform that will build the computational skills of their students. Callysto integrates research and analytics capabilities, along with other computing […]