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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada May 21, 2019 – Ottawa, Ontario Every day Canadian teachers empower young people to shape our future. They nurture a culture of curiosity in Canada...

Ottawa – May 7 th , 2019 By recruiting FinTech ready post-secondary education students, financial institutions can access untapped talent pools to advance their competitive advantage and propel Canada...

May 2, 2019 ICTC, in partnership with Bow Valley College, and March of Dimes Canada, is pleased to be leading a first-of-its-kind study focusing on connecting job-seekers with disabilities with...

Sheridan College and the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) are pleased to announce a partnership that will help support students and employers in the digital sector. ICTC has...

Do you think you have what it takes to prevent a cyber-attack? Registration for next year’s CyberTitan competition is now open! CyberTitan is one of Canada’s largest cyber defense competitions...

This year ICTC will host the inaugural CyberTitan Awards Gala following the CyberTitan II competition. The gala will take place on May 15th, 2019 in the stunning Meryl Cameron Hall at the Ottawa...

This spring will mark an important first for Canada. In late 2017, Infrastructure Canada announced a unique challenge, urging cities to think about their futures and how best to plan for them in an...

Over 1,000 of Canada’s brightest young students have been battling to protect virtual systems from cyberattacks with the hopes of earning an all-expenses paid trip to Canada’s capital and a spot in...

Downloadable PDF Today, the Information and Communications Technology Council is pleased to announce a strategic initiative to help Canadians gain greater insights and build sustainable pathways for...

Calgary, AB, March 27, 2019 — Today, Calgary Economic Development, in partnership with the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC), will release the findings of its Tech and Digital...

This Friday, March 8, 2019, people around the world will celebrate and recognize women of all ages and in all industries for their achievements as part of International Women’s Day (IWD). With this...

DigitalYouth initiative is going to launch its First Business Skills Challenge! This Business Skills Challenge is a unique opportunity for students from grades 6 to 12 to use digital skills in solving...

MIT Tech Review: Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked An attacker had somehow gained control of more than half of the network’s computing power and was using it to rewrite the...

In a recent report released by the Brookfield Institute, it was found that visible minorities made up 31.9% of Canada’s tech workers and were more likely to work in tech occupations than non-visible...

Ottawa, Thursday, February 21, 2019 – The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) is pleased to announce that the Communications Security Establishment is now a Platinum sponsor for...

ITWC: Almost 60 per cent of Canadian firms surveyed were victims of cyber attacks: Report Of the firms surveyed, 58.48 per cent reported having data exfiltrated in 2018. Of those, just over 24.5 per...

Today, The Information and Communications Technology Council is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with the IMD World Competitiveness Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, to better benchmark and...

Bill Gates, Charles Babbage, and Steve Jobs… the majority of us know these names, right? What about Grace Hopper? As her creation of the compiler program led to the development of a universal computer...

Today, the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) announced a collaboration with LinkedIn Canada to share labour market data and learning resources to empower Canadians to rapidly...

Inspiring a Shared Digital Future - ICTC is a national centre of expertise for the digital-based economy, is the trusted source for evidence-based policy advice, forward-looking research, and creative...