About CreativeEconomyCapital.com

Welcome to CreativeEconomyCapital.com, the community-driven Web site that tells Ottawa’s tech success stories to the world!

  

On February 6, 2008 the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) announced the 82000reasons promotion campaign to celebrate record employment in the city’s technology sector.  Created by market2world communications inc. in co-operation with General Assembly Productions Center, the multimedia promotion campaign integrated traditional and social media to create a growing online record of tech Ottawa’s success. On the site, Ottawa technology companies and employees profiled themselves via online blogs or YouTube videos. The site and its launch received international press coverage. See this News and Press Release page.

In 2010, Professor Richard Florida, the award-winning author of Who’s Your City?, rates Ottawa as the “Best Overall” city in Canada on a “Creative Class Index” based on the 3Ts of economic development – Technology, Talent and Tolerance – higher than American cities such as New York, Boston, Washington and San Jose and also higher than international cities like London, England. In turn, Ottawa has dubbed itself “Canada’s Creative Economy Capital”, and OCRI rebranded, redeployed and refreshed the content on 82000reasons.com in June, 2010.

Enjoy CreativeEconomyCapital.com! If you have any questions or inquiries, please contact Kelly Daize (kdaize@ocri.ca) of OCRI at (613) 828-6274 ext. 286 or Jill McCubbin (jill@market2world.com) from market2world communications at (613) 256-3939.