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Government of Canada Invites Small Businesses to Propose Ways to Rapidly Verify Portable Digital Credentials
Friday, September 13, 2019
Process will seek Canadian small businesses able to offer innovative solutions to two challenges
Vancouver, BC, September 13, 2019--(T-Net)--Through the Innovative Solutions Canada program, Canadian federal government departments are inviting small businesses to propose a new innovative solution that addresses a specific challenge they face.
Successful small businesses may receive up to $150,000 to refine their research and development and could, if accepted into Phase 2, receive up to $1 million to develop a working prototype. The government can then act as a first customer, which helps small businesses to commercialize their innovations, scale up their business and create good middle-class jobs across Canada.
The Government of Canada has announced the launch of two new challenges.
Shared Services Canada (SSC) spends too much time and money and too many resources gathering information on current technologies, applications and services in aging data centres. That is why it is seeking a solution to collect and analyze information from multiple data centres in order to develop new options for reducing its infrastructure and create new plans for data centre migrations.
Additionally, SSC and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat are seeking a standardized method for issuing and rapidly verifying portable digital credentials. A successful solution to this challenge will help reduce human error, increase efficiency and ensure digital credential validity, using cryptography.
Innovative Solutions Canada is a key component of the government's Innovation and Skills Plan, a multi-year plan to make Canada a global innovation leader and prepare Canadians to succeed in tomorrow's economy.
"Our government is using its purchasing power to help small businesses innovate and become more competitive. Through Innovative Solutions Canada, the government is able to access quality, innovative products that help solve some of our most pressing challenges, while businesses are able to grow and create good middle-class jobs." said Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.
"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and employ over 8 million hard-working Canadians. That's why our government is committed to helping small businesses start up, scale up and access new markets. Innovative Solutions Canada is a fantastic program that uses government procurement to help small businesses innovate and then commercialize their innovations. These are worthy new challenges, and I can't wait to see what our innovative Canadian small businesses come up with." stated Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion.
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