While British Columbia was counting absentee ballots from this week’s election, which could mean more political risk for proposed multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas projects, the United States was announcing a big deal with China that paves the way for an acceleration of its LNG industry, writes Claudia Cattaneo. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It seems like we’re stuck on the name as opposed to what this agency or crown corporation is supposed to execute on.” “I actually think it should consider a new name. I don’t think it’s going to be collecting deposits or providing deposit insurance,” said Lou Serafini, Jr., president and chief executive of Fengate Real Asset Investments. “Just by description, I don’t even know that it’s a bank. It’s just that some think calling it a bank is confusing. To be sure, a lot of private sector observers welcome the institution, which Ottawa says will help bring private sector and pension fund capital into major infrastructure projects. With the government last week taking some steps to move the CIB off the drawing board and into reality, there’s a greater need to understand just what the so-called bank will do. The new Canada Infrastructure Bank is going to be a lot of things, but the one thing it won’t actually be is a bank, writes Drew Hasselback. Article content An infrastructure bank by any other name… We were wrong,” ODX managing director Kevin Tuer said. “The market for open data in Canada isn’t as far advanced as we thought.” “The intent, at our launch, was that we would be spending the majority of our time helping companies access and use open data, believing the supply side was in good shape. Two years into that three-year mandate, ODX is on track to reach its goals for creating jobs and companies, but has fallen short of its target for attracting investments for open data companies. Based in Waterloo, Ont., ODX’s goal was to incubate 15 new companies, create 370 direct and indirect jobs and attract $50 million in venture capital over its three-year mandate. The Canadian Open Data Exchange, a public-private partnership created three years ago, was supposed to herald a new gold rush - the mining of government data to upon which to build businesses, writes Claire Brownell. Article content Open data proves harder to mine than thought The head of Radio Maisha is Tom Japanni, KTN Managing Editor is Ellen Wanjiru, while Standard Digital Managing Editor is Carole Kimutai.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The top editors at the Standard Group include Kipkoech Tanui (The Standard, Daily Editions) and John Bundotich (Weekend Editions) with Charles Otieno editing The Nairobian. It is the oldest newspaper published in Kenya. In 1989, at a time when Kenya was going into multi-party era, the Standard Group acquired the KTN Television Channel. It is the main rival to Kenya’s largest newspaper, the Daily Nation. In 2004 the name was changed back to The Standard. The paper changed its name to the Standard in 1977 but the name East African Standard was revived later. The British-based Lonrho Group bought the newspaper in 1963, only a few months before Kenya’s independence. At the time the newspaper declared strongly colonialist viewpoints. It became a daily paper and moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi in 1910. In 1905 Jeevanjee sold the paper to Maia Anderson and Rudolph Franz Mayer, who changed the name to the East African Standard. The newspaper was established as the African Standard in 1902 as a weekly by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, an immigrant businessman from British India.