ITAC, the Information Technology Association of Canada, is an or-
ganization that strives to be the “voice of the Canadian information
and communications technologies.” The ICT industry contains over
30,000 companies, $155 billion in revenue, and accounts for approxi-
mately 580,000 direct jobs (3% total employment) and $67.2 billion
of the Canadian GDP.
Over the last 60 years, ITAC has helped expand Canada’s innovative
capacity and productivity across all sectors through the strategic use
of technology. The association is a non-profit organization, depen-
dent totally on funding from its members. Any company in Canada
that is involved in ICT is able to join the association, and all fees are
based on the size and nature of the corporation.
“We have approximately 325 members nationally; 75-80% are SMEs
– somewhere between $1m revenue to $250m revenue. We have most
of the large corporations – they are Canadian companies like CGI,
Opentext, Blackberry, Celestica, and most of the multinationals like
IBM, Microsoft, Google, Apple,” explains Karna Gupta, the President
and CEO of ITAC.
The goal of the association is to help Canada become a world-class,
leading digital economy, and to continue to “deliver prosperity and
competitiveness for the country in a global market.”
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