{"id":3038,"date":"2021-11-16T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:58:00","slug":"orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/","title":{"rendered":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of this study is to measure ORION\u2019s social and economic impact resulting from its operations and capital expenditures, network contributions from its constituents, and its cybersecurity services. This research provides an update of ORION\u2019s impact previously reported in 2015. Metrics that will be used to understand ORION\u2019s contributions for the 2020 fiscal year include GDP, jobs, private investment, and government revenues.<\/p>\n<p>ORION plays a pivotal role in Ontario\u2019s research, education, and innovation ecosystem by providing network and cybersecurity services to institutions across the province. In 2020, ORION contributed over $10.1 billion in economic activity, largely from the use of its network by its constituents. The vast majority of this economic activity, $9.5 billion, was in Ontario. Meanwhile, over 42,000 FTE jobs, including 36,000 in Ontario, are supported through the indirect and induced economic activity contributed by ORION. Cybersecurity education, training, protections and monitoring help to ensure the network reliability of its constituents and connection to larger national and international research networks enable research not possible over traditional commercial networks.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, utilization of ORION\u2019s network and services has been increasing. As research and innovation continues to drive Ontario\u2019s prosperity, we can expect ORION\u2019s importance to the province and its economy to continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Download Report:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ORION-Socioeconomic-Impact-2020-21.pdf\">ORION-Socioeconomic-Impact-2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of this study is to measure ORION\u2019s social and economic impact resulting from its operations and capital expenditures, network contributions from its constituents, and its cybersecurity services. This research provides an update of ORION\u2019s impact previously reported in 2015. Metrics that will be used to understand ORION\u2019s contributions for the 2020 fiscal year &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[112,106,115,113,125,116,108,111,97],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The objective of this study is to measure ORION\u2019s social and economic impact resulting from its operations and capital expenditures, network contributions from its constituents, and its cybersecurity services. This research provides an update of ORION\u2019s impact previously reported in 2015. Metrics that will be used to understand ORION\u2019s contributions for the 2020 fiscal year &hellip; ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 Read More &raquo;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Orion.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"927\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1203\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paul Smetanin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paul Smetanin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paul Smetanin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/c666b713a7851db524a0dffd96669e00\"},\"headline\":\"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Business Cases, Impact Evaluations, And Appraisals\",\"Economics\",\"Impact, Evaluation\",\"Industry Contribution\",\"Infrastructure\",\"Ontario\",\"Region\",\"Service\",\"Topic\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\",\"name\":\"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CANCEA-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CANCEA-Logo.png\",\"width\":3679,\"height\":625,\"caption\":\"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/c666b713a7851db524a0dffd96669e00\",\"name\":\"Paul Smetanin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7128f594e94bd42eba86424ab2ac5229?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7128f594e94bd42eba86424ab2ac5229?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Paul Smetanin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/author\/paul\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","og_description":"The objective of this study is to measure ORION\u2019s social and economic impact resulting from its operations and capital expenditures, network contributions from its constituents, and its cybersecurity services. This research provides an update of ORION\u2019s impact previously reported in 2015. Metrics that will be used to understand ORION\u2019s contributions for the 2020 fiscal year &hellip; ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 Read More &raquo;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/","og_site_name":"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","article_published_time":"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":927,"height":1203,"url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Orion.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Paul Smetanin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Paul Smetanin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/"},"author":{"name":"Paul Smetanin","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/c666b713a7851db524a0dffd96669e00"},"headline":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21","datePublished":"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/"},"wordCount":219,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Business Cases, Impact Evaluations, And Appraisals","Economics","Impact, Evaluation","Industry Contribution","Infrastructure","Ontario","Region","Service","Topic"],"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/","url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/","name":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21 - Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-11-16T15:52:01+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-16T15:58:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/orions-socioeconomic-impact-2020-21\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ORION\u2019s Socioeconomic Impact 2020-21"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/","name":"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#organization","name":"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis","url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CANCEA-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CANCEA-Logo.png","width":3679,"height":625,"caption":"Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/c666b713a7851db524a0dffd96669e00","name":"Paul Smetanin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7128f594e94bd42eba86424ab2ac5229?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7128f594e94bd42eba86424ab2ac5229?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Paul Smetanin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/author\/paul\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}