TAGGED AS SIMON KENNEDY
We didn’t ‘see any utility’ for Palantir: ISED’s Kennedy
telecom | 12/14/2020 2:15 pm EST
An April meeting between Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) and a former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. now working for the controversial U.S. data-mining company Palantir Technologies was part a normal response to a company's offer of services at the start of the pandemic, ISED deputy minister Simon Kennedy has said. In response to questions at a Friday meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee, Kennedy said that Palantir was simply one of many companies that responded to an ISED call for action in the early days of the pandemic. "In that call we had almost 200 digital service firms and software firms, very large companies, very small, large...
UBF won’t have fixed affordability requirements
telecom | 11/19/2020 5:30 pm EST
Government officials have indicated that the newly-launched Universal Broadband Fund will seek to allow for affordable internet pricing across Canada, although it will not impose many firm or fixed affordability requirements on companies that receive funding via the UBF, or on companies that provide internet service through UBF-funded infrastructure. Responding to questions during a Thursday meeting of the House of Commons industry committee, deputy minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Simon Kennedy confirmed that applicants to the $1.75 billion UBF would be asked...
CIB, UBF to collaborate on projects that fall between market cracks
telecom | 11/13/2020 12:08 pm EST
The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek...
ISED pushing Bell to show progress on CTI rollout: docs
telecom | 03/27/2020 4:35 pm EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) will be...
Simon Kennedy replaces retiring Knubley at ISED
telecom | 08/26/2019 2:53 pm EDT
The Office of the Prime Minister announced late last week that Simon Kennedy would become deputy minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development starting September 3. Kennedy will be replacing John Knubley, who retired in June after seven years at ISED and 39 years in public service. Kennedy has been deputy minister of health since...
Telecom, broadcasting lobbying hits July lag
Media | 08/16/2017 3:41 pm EDT
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...