KO team meets with partners to video innovative ICT applications
Smart team members from Deer Lake (Darrell Ostamas) and Fort Severn (Barney Turtle) are working with K-Net staff this week in Sioux Lookout. George Ferriera, a Phd candidate and professional videographer, traveled to Sioux Lookout on Friday to work with the K-Net team in gathering the video material and providing training support for everyone. Together, they are gathering video material from different organizations about their uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the applications that are being developed and delivered across the region. Click here to check out the pictures.
Over the past few months, George has traveled to North Spirit Lake, Keewaywin and Fort Severn to gather video material about how ICTs are being used in these First Nations. In January, he will be travelling to Deer Lake and Poplar Hill to complete the training and data collection efforts.
The video material will be used in a number of ways over the next few weeks and months. Video and editting equipment is being put into each of the KO First Nation e-Centres for the production and archiving of stories and documentaries that can be posted on-line. The evaluation of the Smart Communities project will use the video footage to present the stories as told from the people who are using these tools in their lives. Short video documentaries are being put together to be shared with others.
Using video material to tell the stories about the north, the land and the people, requires broadband connectivity in each of the communities. These tools are another way for the communities to help support the ongoing development and operation of their broadband connections.