CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
is within a few hours ’ drive of
Fortune Global 500 Canadian North America ’ s richest markets in headquarters . Canada and the USA with access That didn ’ t happen by accident . to 164 million consumers . With As an entity Mississauga is relatively close to 55,000 registered new having been founded in 1974 . It ’ s businesses employing more had the advantage of growing up with than 425,000 people , the advent and growing capability of
Mississauga is home technology , an advantage it has seized to 61 Fortune 500 with both hands , explains the city ’ s
Canadian or major Director of Information Technology divisional head and Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) offices Shawn Slack . Slack has been in and 50 various leadership roles for the last 18 years including CIO for the last four years . The City of Mississauga
“ We found that we could make significant savings , many of them in ways we did not anticipate ”
– Shawn Slack , Director Information Technology and CIO became one of the first in the world to install fibre infrastructure in the late 1990 ’ s to its buildings and facilities .
Back then it was a bold move to abandon the traditional telco provider model in favour of VOIP communications delivered over a fibre network , but it happened fortuitously when the City couldn ’ t get any of the telecoms companies to provide a service
4 January 2017