Building a Community of Geniuses

E.B. White once wrote that “genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one.” Indeed, it is most often true that tales of veritable genius begin with a problem needing to be solved.

The true beauty of ICT is that it provides people and organizations with never-before-seen tools that can help solve just about any kind of problem – tools that originate from places far outside the ordinary, and that allow our world’s true innovators to use their imaginations and achieve what many deem impossible.

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Pointe-de-l’Île Community Health Centre

André Gagnière, Executive Director, Pointe-de-l'Île Community Health Centre, gives his acceptance speech at the June 14 gala

Winner in the “Large Public Organization” category

Located on the eastern tip of the Island of Montréal, Pointe-de-l'Île is a primarily industrial area that is home to 200,000 residents. Fifteen per cent of them live below the poverty line.

The Pointe-de-l'Île Community Health Centre is responsible for providing a full range of healthcare services for this neighbourhood. Each year, its requests for at-home health services increase by 20 per cent. In a province where healthcare costs account for 53 per cent of the annual budget, providers have found it increasingly difficult to provide Pointe-de-l'Île residents with the healthcare they need.

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Ontario Telemedicine Network

Ed Brown, CEO of the Ontario Telemedicine Network [centre, holding award], with his OTN team

Winner in the “Small-to-Medium Size Public Organization” category

Some 2.6 million Ontarians live in rural and remote areas and many require specialized medical treatment of some sort. However, only 9.4 per cent of physicians are located in these areas. While the province of Ontario has established different programs throughout the 1980s and 1990s to address this issue, healthcare costs have continued to rise well into the new millennium, calling for a new and innovative solution.

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The Globe and Mail’s Catalyst program

Communities Editor at the Globe and Mail, Jennifer MacMillan [right] and Vanda Vicars of Bell Canada

Winner in the “Large Private Business” category

With a weekly readership of approximately one million, The Globe and Mail is Canada's most widely read national newspaper.

But as digital technologies evolve and permeate all aspects of our lives, the newspaper industry has had to undergo dramatic changes—one of which is finding ways to truly interact with and engage readers.

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