Season’s greetings from everyone here at Cybera!
The holidays are just around the corner, and Cybera will have a holiday closure of its offices in both Edmonton and Calgary. Offices [...]
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Unlimited budget + Secret Santa + tons of creativity = ?
In the spirit of the holidays, the Cybera Communications Team staged a hypothetical Secret Santa gift exchange. Names were drawn and each Cybera [...]
First Nations’ Immunization Records Are Now Going Digital
In a breakthrough initiative that is expected to greatly improve healthcare delivery, four First Nations communities in Alberta have announced a move from [...]
Geospatial data project finishes pilot phase
December marks the end of a geographic pilot project, managed by Cybera, that improves researcher access to international environmental data drawn from more [...]
11 Questions with Leslie Warren
Cybera is running a series of blog posts that showcase Alberta's innovative technology and research community. Over the course of 11 months, we [...]
Revolutionizing Space Research: CESWP Portal to Open to Users
Space scientists will be ringing in the new year with an innovative new online platform for research and collaboration. The Cloud Enabled Space [...]
CyberaNet used to transfer space research data across Western Canada
CyberaNet, in collaboration with CANARIE, BCNET and SRnet, is being used to transfer nearly 300 terabytes — the equivalent of about 25 million large phonebooks — [...]
Perfecting the art of online conversation
On November 27, hurricane force winds caused mayhem right across Southern Alberta. My daughter in Calgary called to tell me a huge tree [...]
When it comes to data, quantity outweighs quality
One of the biggest concerns about the use of “open data” revolves around the quality of data being shared. [...]
Building Open Data Bridges between Policymakers and Researchers
The Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing (GeoCENS) team recently travelled to the CANARIE Showcase in Ottawa, ON, during Nov 16-18. [...]