Archive - Jun 24, 2003

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NAN Tech 2003 Showcases KO's work in Broadband Connectivity

NAN TECH 2003, held on June 18 to 20 in Thunder Bay, proved to be a great success. Thanks to the Nishnawbe Aski Nation IT Department team (especially Gordon Kakegamic) and the Ad/venture Group for hosting such a successful event. It was a lot a work for everyone involved!

The KO Smart Team were able to participate throughout the event with presentations, display booth, demonstrations, networking and learning from all the other participants. GREAT JOB everyone!!

Telesat Canada Meets with K-Net and Industry Canada

On June 16, Stephane Giguere and Mike Collins from Telesat Canada in Ottawa travelled to Thunder Bay for meetings with Carl Seibel from FedNor along with K-Net staff (Brian and Dan). Discussions around K-Net's plans for supporting community networks and the future satellite bandwidth requirements highlighted the meeting. Strategies to ensure there is sufficient public benefit transponder space available to meet the immediate and long term needs for broadband applications were shared with the partners.

Kingfisher Lake's Graduation Ceremony being broadcast over the Internet

Sol Mamakwa and Sonny Mamakwa are hosting an internet webcast for this year's graduation ceremonies being held at Mary Anne Aganash Memorial School in Kingfisher Lake.

The ceremony features the Grade 8 and Senior Kindergarten Classes. Everyone is invited to join the students, parents and staff at this event by visiting the Mary Ann Aganash Memorial School web portal and clicking on the streaming webcast link in the news item.

Sol and Sonny learned about the webcast capabilities during the NAN TECH 2003 conference and worked with K-Net staff to make this live on-line event possible.

Meegwetch to Cal, Brian and Cal @ knet for your help.

K-Net Participates in initial planning workshop of CRACIN

Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net Services) has been invited to partner with CRACIN as a case study in their application to the Initiative on the New Economy (INE) Research Alliances program of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

CRACIN, Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking, is proposing to "bring together leading Community Informatics researchers from across Canada, as well as internationally, to investigate the main Canadian government programs promoting the development and public accessibility of internet services." For more information visit the CRACIN web site.

K-Net staff participated in the initial meeting of this group on June 20 and 21 via video conference.