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The May 1, 2003 issue of Wawatay News contains two more news stories about the work being completed within the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project. Rick Garrick continues to research stories about how First Nations and community members are using ICTs. He is interested in featuring stories about your work with ICTs for future articles. If you have a story that you want to share about this project and the work that is happening in your community to get connected, please send us an e-mail.

This week's articles include:

• myknet.org is a unique on-line gathering place - Angie Morris and Willow Fiddler explain how they started creating their own web site and how they are now using this on-line resource to share stories and information with their friends across the region.
• Leaders forging the way for Kuh-ke-nah Netowork - Geordi Kakepetum, Executive Director of Keewaytinook Okimakanak describes how the First Nation leaders directed the development of the K-Net starting back in 1994.
• Kuh-ke-nah Network Operations - the side column features the on-line development and management tools that are used by the K-Net Technical team to monitor the network operations.

Various newspaper articles are being scanned and stored for reference purposes in this photo gallery.

The month of April was a busy time on the five main K-Net servers with 10,955,522 hits recorded. These servers include:

• the main K-Net server linking visitors to the different sources of information about the work being done at Keewaytinook Okimakanak;
• the Mail server that provides users with e-mail services;
• the Hosting server that provides First Nations and organizations with access to their web sites and portals (including sites such as http://nan.on.ca, http://oshki.ca, http://keewaywin.firstnation.ca, etc;
• the KiHS server set up for the internet high school students and staff; and
• the Photos server that contains hundreds of photo albums with thousands of pictures of happenings across the north.

For more detailed reports about the user traffic everyone can visit the user monitoring pages and click on any of the servers and then the months to see the different growth patterns.