Learning from the Past and Present

COVID-19 and Innovation

“In The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki describes how the SARS virus was isolated in a matter of weeks instead of years when the World Health Organisation assembled eleven research teams from around the world in March 2003 and asked them to collaborate to find the cause of the disease that was claiming hundreds of lives in Southern Asia.

Each team was allowed to pursue their own line of discovery, but instead of guarding the results closely in the hope of winning personal glory, all agreed to share their emergent findings daily by email. The collaborative process allowed the teams to follow multiple directions, build rapidly on each other’s research and determine which leads were fruitful and which were blind alleys in record time.

Within a month of starting the collaboration, the virus that caused SARS had been found and confirmed. Although no one team or individual could claim its discovery, everyone contributed – and everyone won” (Archer & Cameron, 2009).

Fast forward to 2020 and COVID 19, a network called CANcovid has been established in Canada, as an online platform to accelerate the co-creation and mobilization of knowledge to fight the virus between the health sector, researchers, industry and policy makers.

The CANCovid website (www.cancovid.ca) emphasizes collaboration, coordination and communication as core capabilities of the network. Communicating and collaborating across sectors and communities, in a clear and transparent way, can create strong bonds between people and overcome conflicting priorities and values. This collaborative leadership makes knowledge flow to create innovation. Innovating through collaborative leadership is a useful model to guide the resolution of complex problems like COVID.

This model of collaboration is also useful to address issues of conservation or reconciliation in the ecosystem of parks and protected areas.

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Mount Royal University will issue an invoice for your participation in the program in the next few weeks. Payment is accepted by cheque, credit card, EFT direct deposit, or online bill payment.

L'Université Mount Royal émettra une facture pour votre participation au programme dans les prochaines semaines. Le paiement est accepté par chèque, carte de crédit, dépôt direct par TEF ou paiement de facture en ligne.

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You must arrive in Moncton no later than 1100h Atlantic on April 21, 2020 and depart Charlottetown no earlier than 1530h on April 26th.

Vous devez arriver à Moncton au plus tard à 11h00 dans l'Atlantique le 21 avril 2020 et quitter Charlottetown pas avant 15h30 le 26 avril. (heure de l'Atlantique).

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Nous ne pouvons pas fournir de chambres en occupation simple pour tous les participants. Veuillez indiquer toute raison qui nécessiterait une chambre individuelle. La priorité sera accordée aux besoins médicaux, mais veuillez également indiquer des considérations telles que dormeur léger, introverti, ronfleur bruyant, etc.

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