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What digital means for journalism: Q+A with Mathew Ingram

You’d be hard pressed to find a classically trained journalist more hopeful and embracing of digital media than Mathew Ingram, a veteran Globe and Mail staffer who left to join San Francisco-based blog network GigaOM in 2010.

Ingram, who writes about the evolution of media and web culture from his home base in Toronto, was instrumental in establishing the Globe’s first real-time online presence in 2000, which has grown exponentially even as Canada’s National Newspaper renewed its long-term commitment to print. [...]

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Canada losing ground: Q+A with Dr. Ian Wilson

The Moonshot goal adopted at the inaugural Canada 3.0 conference in 2009 was to make Canada a digital nation by 2017, but the reality on the ground suggests we’re slipping compared with other countries.

At CDMN Canada 3.0 2012 in April, Dr. Ian Wilson, executive director of the Stratford Institute for Digital Media, released some sobering findings in his latest Stratford Report on our progress towards the Moonshot.

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Confronting the ICT talent crunch: Q+A with DMZ’s Valerie Fox

Talent will be key to making Canada a digital nation by 2017, but a shortage of people with the right skills continues to plague our ICT sector.

At CDMN Canada 3.0 2012, a panel discussed national and international findings around ICT talent, and the challenges and opportunities they present as Canada builds its digital economy.

Valerie Fox, executive director of the Digital Media Zone at Toronto’s Ryerson University, brought her own perspective to the panel based on 25 years in tech, in industry as well as academia. [...]

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