CROWN COLLABORATION INNOVATION
Crown collaboration innovation continues with a number of goals in support of the Crown Sector Strategic Priorities and Saskatchewan’s Growth Plan, such as:
• Growing revenues.
• Supporting growth and innovation within the technology sector by working with start-ups for mutual benefit and co-developing services based on mutual strengths. • Collaborating with Crowns and government to benefit the province and people of Saskatchewan. Crown collaboration innovation continues ith number of goals in support of ll i i v io i it f l i f
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Examples of key innovation successes from 2020-21 include: Ministry of Highways (MoH) SaskTel was introduced to the MoH Operations business unit, which provided an overview of its key challenges. From this list of challenges, MoH prioritized management of their snow plough fleet as an initial area of focus and opportunity. As a result, SaskTel is working closely with the MoH team to aid in collecting snow plough asset data, consolidating this data into MoH’s analytics and GIS platform, and creating data visualization dashboards. This aligns with MoH’s vision of both fleet management as well as other potential future initiatives. Innovation Saskatchewan Innovation Saskatchewan invited SaskTel to participate in the Northern Food Innovation Challenge, a pan-Canadian challenge where organizations come up with innovative strategies to strengthen the food systems in the northern territories. SaskTel hosted and participated in sessions across the province. All teams presented to a panel of Deputy Ministers, and SaskTel was on the winning team with its Connected Greenhouse concept! With a $5,000 budget and five-week timeline, SaskTel collaborated with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Lead Agronomist and delivered a proof of concept in Robertson Greenhouse. The Ministry of Agriculture created a new Senior Indigenous Advisor role and SaskTel has been approached to re-engage in a Connected Greenhouse initiative, this time working directly with both the Ministry and an Indigenous community.
River City Innovations
Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) was brought to SaskTel’s attention through the Saskatchewan start- up community. LoRaWAN is a cost-effective means of providing low-bandwidth. Internet of Things (IOT) networking for both cities and rural areas. Through SaskTel’s build of this network, availability is open to all, enabling greater access and reduced costs for both entrepreneurs and end users. In addition to helping enable River City Innovation’s (RCI) Asset Tracker solution, the launch of the network and the relationship with SaskTel contributed to RCI’s success in receiving an investment from the Conexus Credit Union Venture Capital fund. Hyon SaskTel partnered with Hyon and generated revenue by allowing Hyon’s verified sellers to sell used furniture. SaskTel previously paid a vendor to discard of the furniture. Hyon provides SaskTel with an environmentally sustainable way of disposing of unneeded furnishings. FIX IT UP FIX IT UP is a quoting software that pairs businesses to users looking for a quote. SaskTel’s partnership with FIX IT UP saves the company time when seeking quotes and drives cost savings by increasing bid competitions.
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