Gtech to develop multi-channel content application platform
The province of New Brunswick has awarded a consortium led by Gtech Canada Ulc with a five-year, Can $5 million research grant for the development of a new multi-channel content application platform. The consortium, comprised of Gtech Canada, T4G, New Brunswick Community College, and First Mobile Education, will develop a technology platform to deliver game content and features across a broad range of mobile and web-based devices and land-based gaming machines.
“Mobile is the fastest-growing component in the interactive gaming segment, and this platform will enable Gtech to provide gaming operators around the world with innovative game content and features across new and existing channels, and cross-channel analytics that will provide operators with a single view of the player,” said Gtech Canada Vice President of Business Strategy and Development Don Doucet. “Thanks to the support of the provincial government and our partners in industry and education, this platform will represent a made-in-New
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Funding for the project is being provided through the province’s $15 million Industry Innovation Challenge. Launched last October, the New Brunswick Research and Innovation Council unveiled a provincial competition designed to identify large-scale industry research and development initiatives that will mobilize provincial assets to fuel economic growth. The challenge awarded the top innovative groups with a $5 million grant to develop their proposal.
As part of the project, Gtech
T4G has more than two decades of data analytics experience; First Mobile Education develops Internet learning courses for industries and K-12 students; and
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