innovation

The symposium is underway. My computer has been taken over by Dr. Andy Miah to give the first presentation. Kris handed his computer over and I've taken a few pictures with my cameraphone. Robert is taking pictures with his "good" camera and taking a few notes as well.

We started by going around the room and having everyone introduce themselves. Internet service providers, website developers, research consortiums, and content providers are here. Words like innovation, promotion, and research are being used a lot. This is a very interesting group of people, and I'm already thinking of just opening up my 15 minutes in a very different way. There are many experts in the room and I'd love to hear them all speak.

A representative from Top-IX talked about taking technologies from something that people are perhaps aware of or at a research level, and promoting them and making them real to people. Their challenge is about promoting home Internet broadband -- I pointed out that we have much to share. Canada has some of the highest per capita home broadband usage, but we lack sadly in mobile technologies.