The most important infrastructure that you’ve never heard of
The first in a five-part series on Canada’s unique research and education network and the organizations that are using it to create socio-economic value for all Canadians.
There are highly successful companies and organizations in Canada (and globally for that matter) that you have probably never heard of and would instantly wonder how you could live without them once you knew of them and what they did. CANARIE and the National Research and Education Network (NREN) are perfect examples of this. While collectively they provide the technology infrastructure in Canada for the research, education, and innovation sectors, Canada wouldn’t be where it is on the global stage without them. Think what life would be like without advances in healthcare, in innovation, in science, and more that you have come to rely on in everyday life.