Overall Sector Strategy

There are five major stakeholder groups we are engaging as part of our 'Be Where People Are' (BwPa) technology strategy. BwPa requires that we understand how to organize & maintain our information in an effective manner so that larger audiences can engage with us to run Timeraisers and develop the Civic Footprint model.
 
Develop & maintain relationships with 15 schools, departsment or research centres. Identify up to 3 students/co-op programs or researchers by end of 2010.
 
Construct an overview of the technology strategy and policies of selected municipal, provincial and federal government ministries, agencies or departments.
 
Engage 5 of Canada's leading technology umbrella and association groups. In doing so, appear on content they posted to their web site, blog, twitter, linkedIn, newsletter, etc collateral.
 
There are a handful of very savvy NGOs and Social Innovators (SIs). These organizations and individuals want to work better together, and rely on cutting edge technologies to get there. We will engage with 25 organizations and individuals 
 
To enage with at minium 10 hardware/software vendors we use by the end of 2010. The goal is to establish a more formal resource development pipeline such as loaned representatives (secondment), product donation, financial support, CSR communication, etc.