Apps Store Innovation Nation

June 8, 2012 By Neil McEvoy Leave a Comment

Government Cloud Computing (GovCloud) is about far more than just moving apps around from one data centre to another.

Instead it offers an entirely new paradigm for the role IT plays within political policy, especially with regards to local innovation. For Canada, a country that has been long suffering from an ‘Innovation Gap’, this is critically important.

Symptoms of this include a weak and declining Venture Capital industry, such that Canadian entrepreneurs are finding it increasingly impossible to launch and grow the new businesses that are essential to the future prosperity of the country and development of its knowledge economy.

Through an ‘Apps Store Architecture’ for enabling more innovation, Cloud Computing offers a platform for addressing this situation and catalyzing an “Innovation Nation”.

Harnessing the Cloud to build an ‘A’ Grade Canadian innovation culture

April 6, 2013 By Neil McEvoy 3 Comments

Since moving to Canada I have become fascinated and passionate about the situation of how the country faces an ongoing poor rank for innovation and economic productivity, most notably the “D for Innovation’ report series the Conference Board have been running for a while. They have just published a new announcement but a repeat of the […]

Chromebooks for Canada!

March 19, 2013 By Neil McEvoy Leave a Comment

It’s exciting to be on board with Sheepdog and be part of the Google channel. Although we already think of Google as a Cloud giant, they are really still early in their industry growth and there’s much more to come that will blow the market away. A great couple of articles with insights into this […]

Slides available for E-Health disruptive business models seminar

February 25, 2013 By Neil McEvoy 3 Comments

Courtesy of the Centre for Global EHealth Innovation we held our first CCN seminar last week, entitled Cloud Computing and disruptive business models for E-Health. The seminar focused on the disruptive and transformational impact new technologies like Cloud Computing and Open Data will bring to Healthcare, and the commercialization opportunities this presents for entrepreneurs. This followed […]

2013 – The Year of the Sheepdog

February 6, 2013 By Neil McEvoy Leave a Comment

I am very pleased and excited to announce I’m joining the sales team at Sheepdog, a Cloud consulting firm based out of Nova Scotia. This is exciting because I don’t believe a Canadian firm has yet seized the mantle of ‘Canada’s Cloud company‘, the firm most associated with the trend here in Canada, so it’s a winners […]