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91ÑÇÉ« and IBM want students to tackle poverty in summer smart city challenge

Posted on 17 May 2022

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91ÑÇÉ« and IBM want students to tackle poverty in summer smart city challenge

By Staff

May 17, 2022

2:26 pm

National Observer - 91ÑÇÉ« is joining with IBM in a challenge for students to reduce poverty in Markham using "smart" city technology.

The school’s turns its attention to the top (end poverty everywhere in all its forms) in the latest six-week summer version of the interdisciplinary program, which will also act as a test run of the tech company’s Silicon Valley-based student outreach.

Markham, with a little over 300,000 residents northeast of Toronto, is working to become a smarter city — broadly defined as a more internet-connected one — but it also has a high poverty rate, particularly among newcomer communities from South Asia.

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