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Tackling A Wicked Problem: Digital Development in Rural Ontario

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Tackling A Wicked Problem: Digital Development in Rural Ontario

Time: March 18, 2014 from 4pm to 6pm
Location: Innovation Guelph
Website or Map: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/t…
Event Type: uofg, event
Organized By: Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship, University of Guelph
Latest Activity: Mar 13, 2014

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The challenge of overcoming the digital divide between rural and urban areas has been the topic of a multi-layered community-university research partnership with highly practical interactions involving municipalities in Eastern and Southwestern Ontario. Many rural communities realize that 21st century revitalization will involve socio-economic opportunities that are mediated by the Internet and mobile technologies. However, many public, private and civil society stakeholders agree that rural broadband is a 'wicked problem' defined as "the persistence of a status quo of divided interests, even in the face of the benefits to everyone from a change and the considerable risks to everyone from a lack of change." This panel discusses the challenges and the opportunities of rural broadband deployment in Ontario, with comparisons to other communities across Canada who unite to in what some have called the "new Canadian dream" of digital inclusion and intelligent development.

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