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An international gathering hosted by the Asian office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is being held in the remote, fly-in community of Bario this week. Visit http://www.ebario.com to learn more about this special community located in Malaysia.

Jesse Fiddler is atttending this event on behalf of Keewaytinook Okimakanak's Kuhkenah Network to share the K-Net story with workshop participants.

Jesse's 10 day travel agenda that began on Saturday includes:

• Dec 1 - Muskrat Dam to Sioux Lookout - 1:30 hr and then driving to Thunder Bay
• Dec 3 - Thunder Bay to Toronto - 1:45 hr
               Toronto to Hong Kong - 15:15 hr
• Dec 4 - Hong Kong to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia - 2:55hr
               Kota Kinabalu to Miri Sarawak, Malaysia - :45 hr
• Dec 5 - Charter to Bario with conference delegates
• return trip from conference starts on Dec 9 with a Charter flight from Bario to Miri
• Dec 10 - Miri Sarawak to Hong Kong - 5:00 hr
                Hong Kong to Toronto - 15:00 hr
                Toronto to Thunder Bay - 1:50 hr
• Dec 11 - Thunder Bay to Sioux Lookout - :45 hr
• Dec 11 - Sioux Lookout to Muskrat Dam - 1.5 hr

Jesse's presentation titled, "The Kuhkenah Network - Enabling Indigenous People to choose how they want to be included in the Information Society of the 21st Century" highlights several key points that need to be included in any e-Inclusion agenda that will be presented to the United Nations at the Global Knowledge conference that is happening the following week:

• The “Kuhkenah” model is based on Indigenous values of community, cooperation, openness, and inter-dependability.
• Indigenous communities are often remote and close to the land.  Technology can  build and bring services into the community while keeping our connection to the Land alive.
• Lands are our Life.  We need to demand fair compensation from colonial governments for the use of our lands and resources.
• We need to establish international reporting bodies and processes that document and publish finding about “fair market return” from the use of our lands by governments and corporations
• We need to ensure that there are public programs in place to support the inclusion of Indigenous people in the ownership and maintenance of the communication infrastructure that delivers quality 2-way communication
• We are not building networks, We are building Communities using networks.

For more information about the conference gathering visit http://www.ebarioknowledgefair.org/