The Information Economy Initiative / L’Initiative de l’information de promotion de l’économie


	english \| francais Information Economy Initiative (iei) - project completed Nova Scotia is connected to the world and to a future of economic advantages, thanks in part to the largest single public investment in Information Technology (IT) infrastructure in the province's history— the Information Economy Initiative, or the iei, for short. Completed in 2003, the iei constituted a collective investment that amounted to approximately $49 million in direct federal/provincial contributions over the five-year life span of the project. The $49 million leveraged the total investment upwards to $90 million – in computers, software, Internet connections, technical support, professional development and infrastructure and research support. These investments in our IT foundation took place in our schools, universities, and communities all across Nova Scotia. Highlights During its five-year duration, the iei: placed more than 6,200 computers in 181 secondary schools partnered to bring high-speed Internet connections to every public school, library and community-college campus in Nova Scotia trained hundreds of teachers to use technology made major university investments in Dalhousie, the University College of Cape Breton — now Cape Breton University (UCB) – and Acadia completed high-speed connectivity projects to link three rural universities (Acadia; St. Francis Xavier, and UCB) to high speed research CaNet 2 national network helped the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology, become a centre of excellence for the application of IT at all educational levels supported Dalhousie's Global Information Networking Institute – GINIus Inc. – in researching e-commerce, software engineering, telemedicine and bioinformatics. The legacy* Today, Nova Scotia students continue to have a technology-rich education through the latest network connections, which are based on the foundations laid by the iei. The Department of Education's iei Extension Project is a great example. The province's businesses, and public health and safety systems are now among the leaders in using IT to respond to their needs. The website The Information Economy Initiative was completed in 2003. The website was removed in 2007. If you have questions about how the project worked or wish to gain access to the archived website, please contact comm@gov.ns.ca.