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Canada: Ottawa, Surrey Win IBM Smarter Cities Grants for 2012 |
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itbusiness.ca |
| Source Date: |
Friday, March 16, 2012 |
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ICT for MDGs
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| Country: |
Canada |
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Ottawa and Surrey, B.C. are the two Canadian cities that will receive part of $50 million in grants from IBM Corp. this year.
That money will be shared with 31 other cities around the world as part of Big Blue’s Smarter Cities Challenge grants, IBM announced yesterday. This is the second year of a three-year program that will see a total of $50 million worth of services distributed among 100 cities. Each city typically gets a $400,000 grant in the form of a team of eight to 12 IBM employees working on an IT project for a period of three weeks.
Ottawa will see a dedicated team of IBM experts work on its land use exercise program for properties surrounding a planned light-rail transit expansion. The project aims to develop the area around the new transit stations in ways that are attractive for residents to live and work there.
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