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Keewaytinook Okimakanak representatives (Chief Raymond Mason, Keewaywin First Nation, Dan Pellerin, K-Net's Network Manager and Brian Beaton, K-Net Coordinator) shared the K-Net Story with conference participants at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO's Paving the Road to Tunis - WSIS II: The Views of Canada's Civil Society on the Geneva Plan of Action and the Prospects for Phase II gathering in Winnipeg.

Representatives of civil society, academia and the private sector of all provinces and territories gathered over the week-end to discuss issues related to building information societies in Canada in preparation for the second phase of the United Nations' World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) that is planned for Tunis in the November, 2005. 

The K-Net Story was shared during the Sunday morning session entitled Community Networking in Canada: from Research to Grassroots Experience  which was chaired by Sharon Hackett with the  Rapporteur: Darlene Thompson, Secretary-Treasurer, N-CAP in Nunavut 

• Communities at the Centre of the Information Society, Michael Gurstein, Co-investigator, Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN) and Chair, Community Informatics Research Network
• Grassroots Experience
  • Monique Chartrand, Director-General, Communautique
  • Brian Beaton, Coordinator, K-Net Services
  • Gwen Friedrich, Executive Director, Community Outreach Group Inc.

Hand outs included ...

• The Keewaytinook Okimakanak's position paper entitled "Turning the Corner with First Nations' Telehealth"
• Keewaytinook Okimakanak's e-Community Concept Paper
• Keewaytinook Okimakanak's Community Broadband Aggregation Networking Model
• Kukenah Network community network diagram