FedNor Officials met with KO Smart Team members by video conference
Thursday morning (Nov 20), Carl Seibel (FedNor's Telecom Officer) brought Jacques Hains, the FedNor Liaison Officer from Ottawa over to Keewaytinook Okimakanak's Thunder Bay office for meetings with different members of the KO Smart team from across Northwestern Ontario. Brian Walmark, KO's SchoolNet Special Projects Coordinator hosted the meeting from his office on the fourth floor at 135 N. Syndicate Avenue that he shares with Conduit Technologies and Northern Nishnawbe Education Council.
First stop on the virtual tour was the KO office in Sioux Lookout, where Carl and Jacques met with K-Net staff to discuss the work that has been completed to date as well as the socio-economic opportunities that the FedNor investments bring to the region and especially the remote First Nations in the far north. Then Dan used the video conferencing bridge to bring in the Fort Severn Smart team at their e-Centre in their community. Later Dan dropped in on the North Spirit Lake e-Centre and Darlene joined the discussions about the impact they are witnessing that these communication tools are having on their communities.
Check out the story that Brian Walmark posted on the http://firstnationschools.ca portal