The City of Toronto is inviting counter-proposals to the unsolicited proposals received from PayIt LLC by them to find prospective suppliers for a digital government and payment platform. The product and service categories
Published on: September 25th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
Cisco Canada and the City of Toronto have come together to launch Digital Canopy, an investment of over $1 million of in-kind technology and services to expand Wi-Fi access in the city’s low-income
Published on: September 9th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
Google Canada says it's committing $1 million to expand Digital Main Street’s ShopHERE program nationally in an attempt to help get 50,000 small businesses online by 2021. The tech giant announced the expansion
Published on: May 28th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
Google Cloud is building a new platform region in Toronto to support its expanding customer base in Canada, the company announced in a blog post today. It will launch with the company’s core
Published on: March 5th, 2020 Pragya Sehgal @itbusinessca
The City of Toronto recently updated its open data portal with new features and data sets. The newest datasets are "Catalogue Quality Scores", "Report Request Log – City Council and its Committees", and
Distributed ledger technology will likely find a home in the city’s back-office, review and consultation processes, before any citizen-facing platform, says Tina Scott, one of Toronto’s IT business application services managers. “That’s where
Imagine a shuttle bus that gets you to that transit stop that's just too far away to walk to - now imagine that shuttle has no driver. Well, that's exactly what the City of
Published on: December 11th, 2018 Meagan Simpson @megesimpson
In many ways, Canada's tech sector growth is Toronto's tech sector growth. The largest city in Canada is also recognized for having the hottest tech sector in the country on just about every
While the saga on Toronto’s waterfront continues, Matthew Tenney quietly solders sensor wires in his apartment. He's focused on a separate project that's gathering data for the city, one which he says will
Managing the City of Toronto's plumbing takes a lot more than a few wrenches and plungers these days. Toronto Water is using drones, augmented reality, and Internet of Things (IoT) connected smart maps
Waterfront Toronto has been criticized by some for the way it has handled privacy and intellectual property issues with Sidewalk Labs at its planned landmark smart city community. Now it faces another critic:
Published on: December 6th, 2018 Howard Solomon @howarditwc
Toronto’s smart city project with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs is set to move forward after signing a new agreement with Waterfront Toronto. Waterfront Toronto announced Tuesday that its board voted to move
Published on: August 1st, 2018 Meagan Simpson @megesimpson
TORONTO - Responsible data use and privacy are top priorities of Sidewalk Toronto’s smart city development project in Toronto’s Quay Side community, organizers told a public gathering on Thursday night. But developer Sidewalk
