Manara

Projects

• Strategic & Media planning for Youth Voices Research Group at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• Designing a SMART Social Media Strategy for Sharpe Blackmore
• Contributing to program design and content development of OCAD’s Master Program in Strategic Foresight & Innovation
• Customer engagement strategies at ING Direct Canada
• Research and Writing contribution for Don Tapscott’s book “Grown up Digital”
• Research Writing for “Everything I Needed to Know about Business I learned from a Canadian”, Second Edition, Leonard Brody & David Raffa
• Coordinating research for Don Tapscott’s book “Wikinomics”
• Designing an internal brand auditing system for a major Canadian Broadcaster
• Exploring brand evolution properties for a major global Consumer Packaged Goods Company
• New Media Strategy for the McMichael Art Gallery of Canada.
• Teaching journalists at the Knight Media Center strategies to engage younger readers.
• Designing a strategy for Business and the Arts
• Designing a new range of export products for Jaba System Inc.
• Designing ICT infrastructure and processes for Nautical Data Systems Inc.
• Technology evaluation and new product ideation for eRecords Ltd.
• Facilitating internal strategic discussion at International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Strategic options development for Delfour Corporation (later acquired by Headwater Technology Solutions Inc.)
• Designing future-proof ICT infrastructure for Mayhew + Associates’ new headquarters in Markham
• Assessing the technology of VisionMD for an investor group (acquired later by Nightingale Informatix)
• Designing the national information and telecommunications policies for first democratic government of South Africa
• Structure and programs of the Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA) of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)
• Advising on the sustainable technology dimension for IDRC’s ACACIA Project
• Advising the Government of Jordan on creating its National Information System and defining its information economy

Speaking Engagements

• Canadian Patient Safety Institutes’ Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, Toronto
• Conference Board of Canada
• CIO Association of Canada, Toronto
• Association of Public Sector Information Professionals, Ottawa
• PriceWaterhouseCooper New Consumer, New York
• Accenture Global Convergence Forum, Miami
• World Congress of Information Technology, Austin
• USC, Knight Digital Media Center, LA
• CBC Panel, Future of News
• Canadian Arts Summit, Banff

Pro Bono Work

• CIOCAN E- Mentoring Program
• York Technology Association (YTA)
• Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) / Women in Technology (WIT)
• International Development & Relief Foundation (IDRF)
• Canadian Centre for Diversity
• The Canadian Dawn Foundation
• Brandaid Foundation
• Jet Set for MS, Charity Event, New Media/Communications Director
• Arnold Edingborough Award, Business for the Arts
• ArtScene Strategy Director