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In the evolving landscape of technology and business, organizations face a challenge in updating their workforce members’ skills and fostering growth and resilience. The uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range provides a space where organizations can train their employees and spur research and talent acquisition. It’s poised to help grow Canada’s cybersecurity and cybersafety workforce across government, academia...

Note: this op-ed was first published in the Hill Times’ Policy Briefing edition on October 17, 2023.Gone are the days when international delegations and venture capital tours skip over the National Capital region en route from Montreal to Toronto. These days, for anyone probing Canada’s innovation agenda, the capital city and the University of Ottawa a...

 It’s a typical Tuesday morning. As you read through your emails and sip your coffee, your work phone rings. It’s the IT manager calling about a worrisome network incident: employees are reporting strange anomalies when signing into their accounts — important files are inaccessible and sketchy errors keep popping up. You suddenly recall recent news reports about a wave of cyberattacks targeting yo...

The unique academia / industry partnership will offer immersive cybersecurity response training through highly realistic, simulated cyberattack and cyber threat simulations.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Societty is delighted to announce that, for the second year in a row, the Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) Network has been named as a finalist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Awards in the Partnership Award category.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is pleased to welcome Ginika Ezeoke as the inaugural Ian R. Kerr Fellow for the LLM in Law and Technology.

The Pleodendron costaricense is an ancient tree on the verge of extinction. Only nine specimens are known to exist. Found in Costa Rica, in the mountains near the Pacific Ocean and in the Osa Peninsula, the tree is referred to by botanists as a “living fossil” because of its historic lineage.

For decades, the University of Ottawa has played a leading role in research, innovation, and skills development in the city – working closely with industry partners to find solutions to challenges and train the next generation of talent. 

A world-first clinical trial published in JAMA could provide an easy way to save tens of thousands of units of blood every year in Canada and much more worldwide. The trial, which involved more than 27,000 patients in 25 adult intensive care units (ICUs) across Canada, showed that taking less blood for lab tests using “small-volume” tubes reduced the need for almost one blood transfusion for every...

On 26-27th July 2023, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), the US Institute of Peace and the Afghanistan Human Rights Coordination Mechanism at Freedom House co-organised a roundtable in Washington DC for US- and Canada-based organisations that in different ways engage in documentation of human rights violations in Afghanistan. Approximately 50 participants joined the event onsite and online, inc...