Canadian Internet Forum 2016 Report

Countries that are more progressive and adopt ICTs and the Internet in a faster and more meaningful way see actual, material bumps in GDP,” Holland told the CIF audience. “This is not just theoretical… [ICT adoption] is critical for our overall economy.

If we’re talking about innovation and doing things smarter, faster and better, we’re talking about the broadband Internet,” Gillis told the forum audience. “The Internet is the infrastructure that [Canada’s] innovation agenda will run on.

We need strategies, a pot of money and a community willing to execute those strategies,” said Holland. “What I hear at the federal level is that there’s a pot of money, there’s a desire for strategy… so all of us in this room can start to execute on making those strategies happen.

Where the Internet ends, so does prosperity,” said participant Lynn Hamilton, president of the Internet Society, Canadian chapter. “The minute you have slow speeds, the minute you are not an innovator; you are not moving forward.

If parents are fearful, they’re not going to teach their kids to code.