For old timers to this blog, you can skip this one because it is essentially a repeat but I was asked yesterday to explain why this blog exists. Here is a novel explanation. Most people ask this question: What do…
Continue ReadingICT full court press
What’s not to love about Gerry Pond? He gently cajoles government today about getting focused on the ICT industry as an economic development. Jerrie Fowler pops up in the same article. The old war horses of the ICT industry are…
Continue ReadingNorway? Maybe
I like Norway. I don’t know why we don’t spend more time investment prospecting there. It is a small market and there is limited potential but it could be a niche market. New Brunswick doesn’t need piles of investment every…
Continue ReadingShould we have an ICT Czar?
Ian Cavanaugh wants New Brunswick to have a Minister for ICT as a way to focus in on the sector from an economic development perspective. I have hammered the drum for focus since Adam was a cowboy and I applauded…
Continue ReadingIn defence of EGM
I have worked with Enterprise Greater Moncton in the past and hope to in the future so take my comments in that context but I think that motion to slash funding was misplaced. It was voted down but it does…
Continue ReadingIndians can be greedy too
I just read in the NYT that Satyam has been willfully inflating its revenue and profit numbers for years. Over $1 billion US$ worth of outright fraud. This is disappointing to me. The article says it will shake the foundations of…
Continue ReadingThose ex NBTelers keep popping up
NBTel is a bit like a Timex watch – it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. On second thought, it’s more like that Terminator in #2 that could reconstitute itself into any form it wanted. I am referring to…
Continue ReadingBeating the drum – again
I hate to sound like a broken record on this but I continue to believe we need a serious research organization based in New Brunswick to study the reasons why New Brunswick has not prospered and policy recommendations to try…
Continue ReadingWither ACOA
Alec Bruce has a good article in the T&T today about ACOA. I zoomed in on a particular statement that he must have pulled from the organization’s annual report. According to its most recent five-year Report to Parliament, “each dollar…
Continue ReadingFinding our niche
I will be attending the Worldsourcing conference in Halifax next week. I am very interested to discuss and develop further this notion of Atlantic Canada wedging in as a ‘nearshore’ component of the onshore, nearshore and offshore global business model. …
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