IvanyActions.ca is a grass roots, entrepreneur-driven action community for addressing the challenges identified in the Ivany Report.

1. IvanyActions.ca
Entrepreneur-driven grass roots
community for tackling Nova Scotia’s
social economic challenges.

2. Action Plan
Community Participation Guide
Join Linkedin group
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Get Involved!
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3. IvanyActions.ca
The Ivany Report identified crushing demographic
and economic challenges, but the government
response lacks urgency, focus and resources. Vague
goals have 2024 deadlines.
NOW, not 2024 - Entrepreneurs, not
Government
IvanyActions.ca is conceived and organized by entrepreneurs, to bring
results-oriented, Go Big or Go Home action now.

4. 1. Why?
Nova Scotia faces an existential crisis, a rapid
decline that the government refuses to
acknowledge or take action to address:
➔ Youth leaving
Elderly care cost base rising dramatically,
tax income base decreasing.
➔ Schools and towns closing
Rural communities collapsing..
➔ Participate
If not you, then who? If not now, then
when? Soon it will be too late.

5. Demographic crisis
WITHIN 20 YEARS THE
WORKING AGE POPULATION
WILL HAVE DECREASED BY
100,000 (20%)
BY 2032 OVER HALF OF NOVA
SCOTIA’S BABY BOOM RETIREES
WILL BE OVER 75
Ivany Action:
The Province admits 2,400 immigrants per
annum. Ray Ivany says 7,000+ are needed.
Sources:
Globe&Mail: Shrinking Region
Chronicle Herald - Grim Future

6. Economic Performance Speaks for Itself
Conference Board of Canada - Provincial Rankings

7. ACTION Plan
Define BIG Goals
Harness Cloud
platforms
Fast-track the best ideas
Collaborative venture
development - From Idea
to Launch platform.

8. Milestones
2017 2018
July 2017
Recruit
Leadership
Team
August 2017
Launch
IvanyActions.ca
web Platform
September 2017
Drive Industry Accelerator Programs.
2018 >
Implement community-defined business plan.
Organize Policy Action Campaigns.

9. Stimulate Debate
How Nova Scotia
Fails at Economic
Development
Linkedin blog
“A lack of strong sales
culture and skills is a
definite issue here for NS
companies getting outside
the region and selling
internationally”
“When I arrived in 2011, I
was absolutely stunned by
the number of
governmental acronyms I
had to learn as I waded
through my new cultural
'norms' and then the
election loomed and so
every decision was put on
hold for a year before the
election”

10. BHAGs - Big
Hairy Audacious
Goals
The Cost of Poverty
The social impacts of
poverty costs Nova
Scotia $2.4 BILLION per
annum.
From Canada Without
Poverty.
Grrr, I eat
small ideas
for breakfast
End Youth Unemployment.
Eliminate Poverty and
Homelessness.
Harness Global Best
Practices
Pioneer ‘UBI’ - Universal Basic
Income

11. Community Action
Projects
Turn ideas into action.
Prototype policy models in real-world
communities.
Connect social needs to business innovation.
Crowdfunding
Our web site platform
will include tools for
posting Project Ideas
that can be developed
into Crowdfunding
campaigns..

12. Industry Accelerators
Concentrated business development
campaigns for industry sectors:
● ICT
● Media & Gaming
● Tourism
● ...
Industry Action Teams
● Publish Industry Policy Insights
● Develop Product Roadmaps

13. UK G-Cloud
Our first trade mission
will help Nova Scotian
ICT startups launch into
the UK GovTech market,
via their ‘G-Cloud’
marketplace..
International
Marketing
Special focus on promoting Nova
Scotian startups and SMEs to a global
audience:
● Trade Missions
● Social Media best practices
● Shared Bus Dev resources

14. ICT
Topics and Actions
AI, Cloud computing
GovTech & FinTech
Channel partnerships
Solution innovation
Regions as Digital
Launchpads

15. Media &
Gaming Topics and Actions
Impacts of cutting film
industry tax rebates.
New growth
opportunities
Immersive
Transmedia

16. Tourism
EnjoyNovaScotia.ca
Coming soon: Our first
‘Ivany Idea’ venture
project, a ‘Destination
Marketplace’ that
promotes travel and
tourism SMEs.
Read more here.

17. Member Showcase
Regular profiles of network members to
help promote their business.

18. Meet Ups
Make the community.
Meet Ups
Regular networking
events to bring together
and match
entrepreneurs.

19. IvanyActions.ca - It’s NOW, or Never