Thursday, November 25, 2010
WestJet Ideas Festival Contest
Win 2 tickets to ANYWHERE WestJet flies!!All you have to do is enter 1 idea that you think can move Atlantic Canada forward.Enter your idea as a comment to this discussion. Please enter your name when you post your idea. We will draw 1 person from the top 10 ideas!We will draw for the tickets tonight at the soiree. Dont miss it!
4 comments:
For Atlantic Canada to truly tap into its true potential, we need all provinces to work in collaboration togethor with our partners in the public, private, non profit and government sections.
Ray
We need to develop the new infrastructure for the creative economy. This is not factories nor traditional businesses. We need to accelerate connections and collaboration.
The industrial revolution was incubated in London's cafes, where new forms of business were created. I suggest we invest in a distributed infrastructure of "commons, or third-spaces, in our communities.
These exist already in Halifax & Charlottetown, and one is being set up in Moncton. If we can establish the most "commons per capita", we may have a leg up in the next economy. This is a much cheaper form of infrastructure than roads and will give us a better return on our investment. Let's build the necessary third-space that will connect the social, the business and the technology aspects of our economy.
http://www.jarche.com/tag/commons/
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/commons/
I think it would be amazing to start using people's stories to create meaningful engagement of the general population on issues of collective importantce in Atlantic Canada. Maybe the somewhat abstract nature of our "encouragement of people" to engage is that we have not done a good job of making it relevant for them based on the human element of change. We need to meet people where they are at. Its all about relevance.
Cheryl Stewart, NSCC
The First Nations of Atlantic Canada had it right when they developed the Peace and Friendship Treaties in our region. There were no competitive boundaries between the nations, they relied upon the skills and strengths of each nation to support one and other. Whereas we are in an era of Comprehensive Claims Negotiations with the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passmaquoddy Peoples regarding Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, now more then ever, the Atlantic Provinces need to build unity- amongst the provinces and with the First Nations to develop an Atlantic Canada collaborative strategy in all sectors. No more competition amongst the provinces. Begin with Energy as the pilot and move from there. This unity will lead to economic development opportunities never before realized by our region. Unity in the spirit of Peace and Friendship.
Darrah Beaver,
Maliseet from the Tobique First Nation, NB
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