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A collection of video clips is available for viewing on-line at http://smart.knet.ca/fednor_video_list.html

These clips were captured during the first week in December. George Ferreira, a graduate student at the University of Guelph, came to Sioux Lookout and then drove to Thunder Bay to get this footage. The plans include producing a short documentary about the work that teams from FedNor and Keewaytinook Okimakanak to help bring broadband connectivity and applications into this region.

Jesse Fiddler, K-Net's Multi-media Coordinator, travelled to Winnipeq on Thursday to work with twenty-two youth from Manitoba First Nations. He provided them with a workshop on creating and maintaining web pages using Post-Nuke.

Northern Development and Mines Minister Bartolucci visited the Keewaytinook Okimakanak office in Balmertown to announce nearly 1.1 million dollar investment to support the purchase of telemedicine equipment required to expand the KO Telehealth initiative into all the First Nation Health Centres across the Sioux Lookout Health Zone. The funding is coming from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.

Click here to see the pictures and the story about this announcement.

Click here to read the ministry's press release.

Click here to read the newspaper coverage in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal.

The K-Net office in Sioux Lookout has a new telephone system that is operating entirely over the Kuhkenah Network. When anyone now calls the K-Net office using either our toll-free number (877-737-5638) or our local number (807-737-1135) they will be greeted by the new system and invited to either enter the person's extension or press 4 to go to the office directory. In the office directory, a caller only needs to enter the first three letters of a person's last name and then wait for a menu to get to the KO staff member's IP phone.

The telephone directory is available on-line at http://knet.ca/phone_numbers.html

One component of the KO First Nations SchoolNet project is to work with Dr. Ricardo Ramirez and his graduate students to identify strategies using video conferencing to establish areas of research and development in First Nation schools. Video conference meetings this week began this process.

Click here to check out the story on the First Nations SchoolNet web.