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ATTENTION YOUNG WOMEN!

The Decade Office is sponsoring a "Girl Power" Train the Trainers symposium in May in Thunder Bay.  If you are a young woman, between the ages of 18-29, residing in a NAN member community we may be looking for you.  If you are interested in creating communities that are concerned with women's issues and are willing to organize activities in your community that will enhance women's status in our society, then you should apply to participate in this training.  

The theme of this training is prevention of violence against women through leadership development.  Participants will learn how to become proactive in breaking the cycle of young women's oppression.  Upon completion of the training you will be able to speak up against social injustice and you will encourage other young women to do the same by organizing a Girl Power camp in your home community.  

All travel, meals and accommodation are covered for the 10 young women chosen for this training.

If you are interested in participating please send a cover letter, a current resume and a statement outlining how you will organize a camp in your community to the symposium planner, Nita Quequish, at NAN by fax (807) 623-5819, email: coordinator@nandecade.ca or call 1-800-465-9952 for more information.  The deadline to submit your application is May 7, 2004.

More info is also available on our website at www.nandecade.ca

Melanie Goodchild,
Decade for Youth & Development Coordinator
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
ph. (807) 623-8228
fax (807) 623-5819
email: mgoodchi@nan.on.ca
www.nandecade.ca

Please post this announcement. It is very important.

Osnaburgh (Mishkeegogamang) had the annual Hydro Settlement Payout in February of 2004. A lot of people have not come forward to claim any of their pay out and this needs to be taken care of as soon as possible.

If you or anyone you know belong to Osnaburgh band please contact Jeff Loon or Jeff Neekan at 807-928-2414 or 2148 during work hours. Thank you very much.

The NAN Decade Youth Council have their own web site up and running check it out!

www.nandecade.ca

Be sure to submit your community events and share your youth activity stories.

Team Ontario North (male) Gold medalist at the National Aboriginal Hockey Champions 2004 in Prince George BC which took place April 18 - 24, 2004.  www.nahc.ca

MAKING IT WORK FOR VOLUNTEERS - 2004 SHOWCASE ONTARIO VOLUNTARY SECTOR IT AWARDS
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* Deadline is May 14, 2004 at 5:00 P.M. *

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!

Does your organization:

• recruit and support volunteers?
• build networks and lines of communication with other voluntary organizations?
• create partnerships with the public or private sector?
• use information technology (IT) to improve the delivery of your services to Ontarians?

Apply for the 2004 SHOWCASE ONTARIO VOLUNTARY SECTOR IT AWARDS!  Be recognized for your organization's innovative use of the Internet and information technology.

Go to http://www.volunteersonline.ca/apply to download an Entry Form and Release.
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THE SHOWCASE ONTARIO AWARDS will be given out in September 2004 at SHOWCASE ONTARIO, a forum where information technology expertise from the public, private and voluntary sector is shared with the goal of improving the delivery of services.

THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IT AWARD recognizes and acknowledges the excellent work many community-based organizations are doing with information technology. This award is part of Making IT Work For Volunteers, a partnership between Information Technology Association of Canada for Ontario (ITAC Ontario) and the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration of the Government of Ontario.

The top winner will receive the Diamond Award of Excellence. Three Merit Award winners will receive a medal.

Last year's winners were:

* CanadaHelps - Diamond Award of Excellence
* CanadaInfoNet (JVS Toronto)  - Award of Merit
* ACTEW - Award of Merit
* Digital Eve Toronto  - Award of Merit

Winning projects will be featured as a case study in the Lac Carling Governments' Review Magazine in addition to being highlighted on the Showcase Ontario website, the IT World Canada website and the
Ministry of Citizenship and ITAC Ontario websites.

Go to http://www.volunteersonline.ca/apply to download an Entry Form and Release.  Organizations that applied in 2003 are encouraged to resubmit.

Please contact info@volunteersonline.ca with any questions.

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VolunteersOnline.ca - Information Technology For Canadian Communities http://www.volunteersonline.ca

An article in IT Business features Lakehead University's new Advanced Technology and Academic Centre and its "smart classrooms". It also provides a good example of the capability of broadband (in this case using the ORION network) to change the way education is conducted in Ontario.

"A distance educator learns its lesson"

4/28/2004 5:00:00 PM - Lakehead University's first attempts to connect with remote students had some glitches, but a $44 million project has turned it into one of Canada's first truly multimedia schools. Find out how they moved to the head of the class.

Lakehead University has overcome its physical distance from the rest of Ontario with "smart classrooms" and an Advanced Technology and Academic Centre.

The Thunder Bay, Ont. university has eight undergrad and graduate programs available through distance learning, and runs a private IP network between it and a number of regional school boards whose classes are used in distance education.

ATAC director Bob Angell said the project started three years ago when the university was looking for ways to make better use of learning technologies ...

Click here to read the entire article.

The new KO Telehealth web site is rich in news updates, pictures and reference material. The document "Building Bridges" provides a list of the steps over the past seven years that KO has taken to develop this service. The contact information for the new Community Telehealth Coordinators and the new sites being added to the network are also available.

Click here to visit the new KO Telehealth web site.

Dan Pellerin, K-Net's Network Manager is in San Diego, California meeting with other VSAT users at VISTA 2004, the 11th consecutive conference of the VSAT International Satellite Telecommunications Association. The theme of this year's gathering is “Winning through Innovation”. K-Net staff were invited to this gathering by ViaSat, our partners in the supply and support of the satellite modems used in the satellite served First Nations.

From the president's invitation letter ....

"This meeting facilitates the ViaSat user community’s continued desire to interact with one another and the Company to broaden the use of VSATs in the market and expand the range of benefits offered.

Our previous conference anticipated the broadband wave. Now we are in a position to look at innovative ways of using this technology, together with new developments in the traditional products, for new applications and winning business ideas.

The conference provides many opportunities to learn from and interact with a wide range of professionals in the industry:

• Real-life case studies presented by satellite network operators and technology users.
• Presentations by and discussions with industry experts on industry trends, new technologies and their uses in local and global networks.
• Team building activities that encourage interaction with other network operators, service providers and maintenance organizations.
• Exchanging ideas with the engineers that are intimately involved in developing new networks and products.
• Briefing sessions by ViaSat executives, including chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg, recently named “Satellite Executive of the Year” for 2003, on the future of ViaSat products and services.
• Providing feedback and suggestions that will shape future ViaSat products.

Click here for the conference agenda.