Calgary pours tech into traffic-congestion mitigation

Calgary pours tech into traffic-congestion mitigation

The City of Calgary says it’s doing a good job managing vehicular traffic congestion and it wants drivers in the city to help out by thinking ahead.

XPRIZE picks Calgary for first international hub; city and province invest $3M

The University of Calgary has been chosen as the site of the first international XPRIZE hub, a $10-million, five-year initiative to connect Canadian innovators with global efforts to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges.

U of Calgary becomes XPrize Foundation’s first international hub

The XPrize Foundation, a non-profit that creates large innovation competitions to solve global problems, has chosen the University of Calgary as its first Canada Hub as well as its first international hub. The school is receiving $10 million CAD to fund the five-year effort. The provincial government is contributing $1.5 million from Alberta Technology and Innovation to help operate the hub, with the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund (OCIF) pr…