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!!
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.
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.