Many people have posted intellegently about the April 19th ICT Toronto gathering at the MaRS Centre, where ICT Toronto announced their “cluster development strategy” paper. Joey has extremely detailed notes and insight about the event, Mark offers his perspective and insight on the strategy and Tom took the coolest picture of the mayor I think I have ever seen.
The only thing that I’d like to comment on is ICT Toronto’s completely naive views on offshoring. How can they support a firm like IBM (not that IBM isn’t cool) offering consulting services in Toronto when their blended rate is supported by offshore development. Native Toronto firms will need to outsource to compete with these large American, offshoring firms and ICT Toronto should help Toronto firms establish relationships possibly by starting sister city relationships.
[tags]cluster, creativecluster, Ontario, talent, technology, Toronto[/tags]
