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Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Minister Robert Nault was in Balmertown this morning to announce funding of the All Weather Road Initiative north of Red Lake. The event was streamed on the Internet live and there is now an archive that you can view at  http://streaming.knet.ca/allweatherroad.wmv . Representatives from several of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations participated in this event via video conference.

Click here to check out the pictures of this event.

The inaugural e-newsletter from Northern Ontario Native Tourism Association is now available. Click here to read this summer's newsletter (4 pages PDF, 419K). Other newsletters are available in a hard copy format from the NOTA office.

This issue highlights the 3rd Annual Aboriginal Tourism Conference held in Sault Ste Marie in May 2003. Additional pictures from the conference are available at www.instapicphoto.com/tourism.  Click here to see the Conference Report (39 pages PDF, 1.9M).

The Aboriginal Tourism Development Strategic Plan for Northern Ontario (282 pages PDF, 2M) is also available on the NONTA web site.

Mitchell Diabo
Partnership Development Advisor
Northern Ontario Native Tourism Association
Website: www.nonta.net
E-mail: mitch@nonta.net
Tel: (807) 623-0497
Fax: (807) 623-0498
Cell: (807) 472-7867

Wayne Collins, Technical Director at the Education Network of Ontario sent the past three days reviewing the Kuh-ke-nah Network's infrastructure design, the existing hardware and software configuration and discussing present and future network needs, plans and directions. Wayne worked with Dan Pellerin and other K-Net team members to identify strengths and gaps in the network and to determine potential development streams for network growth.

The Education Network of Ontario (ENO) is one of Keewaytinook Okimakanak's important partners in both the development and operation of the existing Kuh-ke-nah Network (K-Net). As a Gold Circle Partner, ENO continues to provide essential connectivity services and advise to the ongoing operational and development of the network from their offices in Toronto.

Wayne is producing a report of his findings and recommendations which the K-Net Smart team will use to assist in determining our strategic investments as the Smart Communities project completes its third successful year of operations.

 Lance Redbourne, Tech Director with NNEC stopped by and met Wayne and Dan.

 Wayne also had a chance to work with John on the set up of the IP Telephony Call Manager system.

More and more people are getting on-line and using the on-line K-Net services.

Over 14 MILLION hits occurred on the K-Net servers during the month of July. Specifically, on the seven servers with traffic graphs, there were a total of 14,822,360 hits and 328,887 visits made to these on-line services provided by Keewaytinook Okimakanak.

Several of the K-Net servers that are being monitored for hits, visits and usage statistics using the webalizer program again showed an increase in June. In particular, the http://myknet.org server rose again to over 7.2 million hits during this month.

Please note:

• one reason for the 2 million hit increase from the previous month is the Hosting server statistics are now being included in the monthly K-Net statistics;
• other on-line K-Net services, such as K-Net chat and the video streamer are not included in these numbers;
• server traffic monitoring information is located at http://tech.knet.ca/~tech/monitoring.