Quebec has identified more than a million lakes, 130,000 watercourses of which 4,500 are rivers. Quebec holds 2% of the earth’s fresh water… in short Quebec is water. For all these reasons and for many others (Foundation One Drop, Code...
Idenergie aims to solve global issues
Last week we had the pleasure of meeting the President of Idénergie. This is a Montreal based startup that has invented a river hydroliène to provide electricity to people in need or to secondary houses. Idénergie’s founders agree that the...
Challenges that require Social Innovation in Quebec
But where the danger is, also grows the saving power. - Friedrich Hölderlin Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein Historically, companies have developed new tools and methods to meet the...
Crowdfunding for Science and Research Projects
This Crowdfunding platform is different by enabling you to get in on the research game RocketHub is an online platform that balances typical/questionable business ideas with more high-minded pursuits. CEO Brian Meece wants science to be funded by people. He...
Kiva comes to Montréal for the KWS conference
In April 2004, Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley start work on an initiative they call Kiva. Kiva is an online lending platform that allows individuals in the developed world to loan to small business people in the developing world. In its first year, the site featured a...
Few Things we learnt at Fred Harper KWS13 conference
“If you are not on Google…sorry you don’t exist”… This sentence underline the whole presentation of Fred Harper last year at KWS Montréal. The genius and talented Senior Tech evangelist at Mozilla insisted last year on the necessity to have...
Social Innovation : Is it a fad?
It all started with a questioning that we had last January about the social economy. Stopped by a newspaper article from LE DEVOIR, about social economies companies, it was asked if the social economy as a whole was a new...
The Panic button app from Amnisty International will protect human rights activits
Human rights activists in some of the world’s most repressive states will have improved access to assistance when facing the risk of attacks thanks to a smart, easy-to-use app launched by Amnesty International last May. “Panic Button”, a mobile app for...
Nadim Kobeissi wants to enhance Cryptocat for the happiness and safety of all
Last week I had the chance to meet Nadim Kobeissi, the brilliant programmer of Montreal, founder of the platform encrypted messaging Cryptocat. This platform has nearly 200,000 active users and allows users to have encrypted conversations. Indeed, with the many threats...
Rami Sayar Growth Hacking for Traditional Marketers
After his amazing talk at KWS13 last September at Concordia University, Rami Sayar the Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Canada will share his passion and knowledge during the technology for Good Week, through an interesting conference titled : “Growth Hacking for...