CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
to help small businesses adopt digital quickly , to gete-commercee in place quickly so they could compete and participate in an online world .”
Economic Development also set up a Microsoft Teams site to engage with industry by sector . “ The intention was to create a digital forum because Economic Development could no longer go and have meetings and bring people together . So the MS Teams site became a collaboration platform for industry to access economic development and create business-to-business interactions . There was a lot of business growth in those sectors , so many businesses transformed and pivoted .”
“ This was about place making and city building . It was not about technology , although digital runs through it ”
SHAWN SLACK CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER , CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
But it ’ s not just about technology , Slack is clear on that . “ This was about place making and city building . It was not about technology , although digital runs through it .” He describes visiting other cities for inspiration and to learn from others – Dublin in Ireland , Milton Keynes in the UK , Las Vegas in the US – benchmarking for success to “ de-risk failure ”.
Benchmarking “ We were looking at Las Vegas and the autonomous vehicles and what ’ s happening down there and at the applicable use and the electrification of vehicles . In high heat , charging electric vehicles is a problem .
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