More comment on the new Alberta Innovation program from Cybera, an Alberta non-profit dedicated to Cyber Infrastructure technologies. The question raised “What is the killer voucher app?” is a good starting point to try and start a conversation around this program.
So far, when I introduce this program to industry, I get looks that seem to be equal parts interest and skepticism. Interest, of course, because our SMEs are always looking for new sources of funding, and skepticism that they will actually get the vouchers in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable amount of effort.
However, I think that the details are deliberately vague in order to allow for some creativity be applied so that voucher applicants (industry) and voucher consumers (Cybera, NEWT, CTI and others) can dream up solutions and put them into the applications to the government. If this works, we should be in for a very innovative few months and next year our landscape may look very different.
Cyberinfrastructure 2.0: What is your Killer Voucher App (or Service)?
Tags: alberta, innovation, voucher
