Top 25* Innovators

the Atlantic Ocean in 1906.

Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin Okay, so the BlackBerry didn’t stand the test of time, but its use for a while was so prevalent and addictive that it was nicknamed the

CrackBerry. Their company also created the first two-way pager and won an Oscar and

One of the things I’m really passionate about is that the rules of the production economy, which is where Canada has found its way, and the rules of the information economy are fundamentally different. The supply-chain, trickle-down effects that are true in the production economy are not true in the information economy. The information economy is a winnertake-all game based on monopolistic control of data. When we do innovation in Canada, we fund universities, we fund incubators, and we call that innovation. But if what we really mean by innovation is creating an economic engine that can fund health care and roads for the next 50 years, we’re not doing that yet.

In Canada, we come up with programs like the Strategic Innovation Fund, Supercluster

The part of the data-driven economy that keeps us up at night is also the part we find most exciting: privacy and security concerns driven by digital identity. Today, citizens are asked to navigate numerous identification methods to satisfy the onboarding needs of the organizations they seek services from. At the same time, fraudsters are collecting information to know as much, and sometimes more, about the citizens they are impersonating.

Until this point, privacy and security have not been built around identity or keeping