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As a way to demonstrate broadband applications, Keeweaytinook Okimakanak is hosting a web cam at their Sioux Lookout office. Click here to check out the current image

A second web cam is located in Jamie Ray's home to overlook Pelican Lake with the float planes landing. Click here to click that Sioux Lookout scene.

Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation has their broadband radio equipment in place and ready for the Nishnawbe Aski Nation 100 year commemoration of the treaty signing. A team from Superior Wireless lead by John Lyon worked all day on Saturday along with Dan Pellerin to make sure the wireless connection was properly installed and ready to carry a live two way video conference from the school site. The live session will be broadcast on Tuesday afternoon. The morning session will be taped and broadcast that same afternoon.

A team from Keewaytinook Okimakanak, Shibogama First Nations Council  and the Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre are leaving on Monday to set up the video and internet connections at the site. The taping and broadcasts will be done at the site on Tuesday throughout the day. Team members include Jeannie Carpenter, Cal Kenny, Jamie Ray, Jesse Fiddler, Derek Kenny and Sol Mamakwa.

Dan Pellerin, K-Net Network Manager and Brian Beaton, K-Net Coordinator met with Roger Valley on Thursday to discuss strategies for working together to support First Nations across the region in developing telecommunication broadband infrastructure.

The e-Community concept paper outlines Keewaytinook Okimakanak's strategy for working with other First Nations and organizations to develop broadband telecom infrastructure and applications across the province. Click here to see the e-Community concept paper.

As well, Roger was provided with an update on the "Turning the Corner" video presentations in Ottawa. Roger expressed his support for this work and indicated his willingness to facilitate meetings with other First Nation groups interested in developing these resources in their regions.

For more information, everyone is invited to view and share the following resources ...

1. DVD - video production “Turning the Corner – Using Broadband Effectively in Canada’s North”. The content of the DVD is available on-line at (May 2005) …http://streaming.knet.ca/turning_the_corner_high.wmv
2. Turning the Corner with First Nations Telehealth position paper - May, 2005 http://knet.ca/documents/KOTelehealth-Position-Paper-May2005.pdf
3. E-Community Concept paper (April 2005) - http://knet.ca/documents/EComm-concept-final.pdf
4. Community Aggregation Model (April 2005) - http://knet.ca/documents/community-aggregation.pdf
5. Report of Keewaytinook Okimakanak C-Band Public Benefit Initiative (March 2005) - http://research.knet.ca/images/upload/05-03-29-Summative-Overview-C-Band-Public-Benefit-KNet1[1].pdf
6. KIHS information video http://streaming.knet.ca/KiHS/KiHS_300k.wmv
7. Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth (KOTH) information video http://streaming.knet.ca/telehealth/TH-Evaluation_300k.wmv
8. DVD video entitled "The K-Net Story ... Weaving the Networked Economy in Kuhkenah First Nation Communities" … (Dec 2004)
   • Introduction 13:04 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/intro_300k.wmv
   • Economic Development 2:36 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/economic_300k.wmv
   • Partnerships 9:51 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/partnerships_300k.wmv
   • Building the Network 2:36 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/network_300k.wmv
   • Education 5:58 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/education_300k.wmv
   • Health 3:29 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/health_300k.wmv
   • Visions for the Future - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/future_visions_300k.wmv
9. The Case Studies produced for the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) entitled “Harnessing ICTs: A Canadian First Nations’ Experience” (December 2003) – http://smart.knet.ca/kuhkenah_flash.html (contains videos for each case study listed below)– contains the PDF files along with video footage for five case studies including:
   * Executive Summary – http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/summary.pdf
   * Introduction to K-Net – http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/introduction.pdf
   * K-Net Network Development - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/network.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Economic Development - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/economic.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Health - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/health.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Education - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/education.pdf
10. If you go to the K-Net news archives at http://knews.knet.ca and do a SEARCH (on the left hand column) for the word video ... you will get a list of the various video products that have been produced for distribution.

Gaetan Lacoursiere, Business Solution General Manager with NorthernTel traveled to Sioux Lookout to meet with K-Net team members to discuss possible connectivity solutions in their region.

Interest in exploring connectivity possibilities probably has something to do with the Angus TeleManagement Group's Telecom Update #484, June 3, 2005 announcement in their newsletter ...

IS BELL EXITING RURAL PHONE BUSINESS? There's no official comment from Bell Canada, but published reports say the telco is hoping to raise $3 billion by selling 850,000 local telephone lines in rural Ontario and Quebec. Rumoured buyers include Bell Nordiq (a Bell subsidiary) and independent telco Amtelecom.

Anne Lawrence, Business Manager, Client Services and Vijai Karthigesu, Senior Solutions Architect for Network Refresh Program with Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) along with Carl Seibel, Telecommunication Projects Officer with Industry Canada's FedNor program travelled to Sioux Lookout to meet with the Kuhkenah Network team on Tuesday. Meetings to discuss strategies on ways to work together to develop and deliver health services in First Nations.

Jamie Ray, Computer Technician with K-Net's Helpdesk in Sioux Lookout and Aaron Hardy, KiHS Technician in Fort William First Nation are attending the 5 day Cisco Academy CCNA - Level 1 instructor training at Centennial College in Toronto this week. Support for this training is coming from Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet initiative.

As part of this instructor training, Jamie and Aaron are planning to once again work with Angus Miles to deliver the ITE1 and ITE2 Cisco Academy training for First Nation technicians starting this fall. Watch for more information about these training opportunities to obtain Cisco certifications in these courses.

Dan Pellerin, K-Net's Network Manager and Jeannie Carpenter, K-Net's Operations Manager met with officials from the United Nations via video conference on June 9. They shared a presentation about how KO is using ICTs in the support of health services in remote First Nations during an afternoon forum  that was being held at the United Nations. The title of session hosted by "Promoting An Enabling Environment: Music, Technology, Culture and Healthcare".

From the United Nations Webcast portal (at http://www.un.org/webcast/2005.html)

International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) in collaboration with the United Nations ICT-Task Force, Programme on Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA); the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center, Global Music Healing Institute ; NGOs and the private sector.
[Webcast: Archived Video - Part 1: 2 hours 17 minutes]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Part 2: 1 hour 56 minutes]
[Link to Programme]

The session was organized by Professor Dianne Davis, Founding President of the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC). This unique interrelated event is part of a series organized by the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) in collaboration with the United Nations ICT-Task Force, Programme on Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA); the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center, Global Music Healing Institute; NGOs and the private sector. The Conference will address applications related to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in terms of creating partnerships and improving health of citizens worldwide.
 
Music and its effects on the individual have been recognized and practiced for centuries. But what is new is that now, for the first time, we can now prove through technology what happens plus enhance lives more rapidly using ICT as an enabling tool.

Conference addresses: 

• ICT as an enabling tool for rural and urban delivery of health care services
• Emerging technologies in music and medicine
• Power of music in creating a dialogue among children 
• New understanding of the impact of musical rhythms and its utilization as a  “Medical Tool”

International Council For Caring Communities (ICCC)
24 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019, USA
Tel: 212 688-4321  fax: 212  759-5893  
E-mail: icccworld@earthlink.net   
www.international-iccc.org

Brian Beaton, K-Net Coordinator for Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet visited three First Nation schools in the Union of Ontario Indians territory on June 6 and 7. The schools in Nipissing, Dokis and Wasauksing First Nations were visited on this trip. A short meeting with the Union's Education Director also provided some important insights into the efforts of this region to address the educational needs of the students. Click here to view the pictures from these visits.

As part of the First Nations SchoolNet program, Keewaytinook Okimakanak is the Ontario Regional Management Organization (RMO) supporting First Nation schools across Ontario in the use of ICTs. In completing this work, visits to different regions and schools is assisting the RMO team to determine needs and priorities with the First Nation schools across Ontario. Each school across the province is completing surveys highlighting their existing resources and developments along with their ICT requirements and priorities for the 2005-2006 school year.

On Friday, June 3 George Ferreira, Carl Seibel and Brian Beaton travelled to Ottawa to meet with representatives from different federal government departments and First Nation organizations to showcase the new video production, "Turning the Corner - Effective use of broadband in Canada's North". Representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, the Aboriginal Peoples Congress along with officials from Industry Canada (FedNor, Aboriginal Business Canada, First Nations SchoolNet, Computers for Schools, National Satellite Initiative, BRAND, etc), Heritage Canada, Human Resources Skills Development, Health Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs, Privy Council and Treasury Board gathered in Ottawa. Connected to the session via video conference were Regional Management Organization offices in La Ronge Saskatchewan, Sydney Nova Scotia and Thunder Bay and Balmertown in Ontario. Over forty people participated in the two sessions that were offered throughout the morning. FedNor's Minister of State Joe Comuzzi dropped by to meet everyone and endorse the work that Keewaytinook Okimakanak and his team are doing in northwestern Ontario.

Everyone view the video and discussed the use of broadband to affect the necessary changes required in programs and policy that are affecting and influencing the present situations and issues affecting remote and rural communities across Canada.

All the video material produced by Keewaytinook Okimakanak is available on-line for everyone's access. We can send over additional DVD copies of the various material that is posted on-line (much better quality) if we have your mailing address. The following list of on-line material might be of interest to everyone ...

1. DVD - video production “Turning the Corner – Using Broadband Effectively in Canada’s North”. The content of the DVD is available on-line at (May 2005) …http://streaming.knet.ca/turning_the_corner_high.wmv
2. Turning the Corner with First Nations Telehealth position paper - May, 2005 http://knet.ca/documents/KOTelehealth-Position-Paper-May2005.pdf
3. E-Community Concept paper (April 2005) - http://knet.ca/documents/EComm-concept-final.pdf
4. Community Aggregation Model (April 2005) - http://knet.ca/documents/community-aggregation.pdf
5. Report of Keewaytinook Okimakanak C-Band Public Benefit Initiative (March 2005) - http://research.knet.ca/images/upload/05-03-29-Summative-Overview-C-Band-Public-Benefit-KNet1[1].pdf
6. KIHS information video http://streaming.knet.ca/KiHS/KiHS_300k.wmv
7. Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth (KOTH) information video http://streaming.knet.ca/telehealth/TH-Evaluation_300k.wmv
8. DVD video entitled "The K-Net Story ... Weaving the Networked Economy in Kuhkenah First Nation Communities" … (Dec 2004)
   • Introduction 13:04 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/intro_300k.wmv
   • Economic Development 2:36 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/economic_300k.wmv
   • Partnerships 9:51 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/partnerships_300k.wmv
   • Building the Network 2:36 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/network_300k.wmv
   • Education 5:58 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/education_300k.wmv
   • Health 3:29 - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/health_300k.wmv
   • Visions for the Future - http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/future_visions_300k.wmv
9. The Case Studies produced for the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) entitled “Harnessing ICTs: A Canadian First Nations’ Experience” (December 2003) – http://smart.knet.ca/kuhkenah_flash.html (contains videos for each case study listed below)– contains the PDF files along with video footage for five case studies including:
   * Executive Summary – http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/summary.pdf
   * Introduction to K-Net – http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/introduction.pdf
   * K-Net Network Development - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/network.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Economic Development - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/economic.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Health - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/health.pdf
   * K-Net Case Study on Education - http://smart.knet.ca/flash/eng/pdf/education.pdf
10. If you go to the K-Net news archives at http://knews.knet.ca and do a SEARCH (on the left hand column) for the word video ... you will get a list of the various video products that have been produced for distribution.

The Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute (http://research.knet.ca), the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth project (http://telehealth.knet.ca) and the Keewaytinook Internet High School (http://kihs.knet.ca) are included in the latest issue of the online Community Informatics journal - Vol. 1, No. 3 (2005) of The Journal of Community Informatics has now been published online at http://www.ci-journal.net/viewissue.php?id=7. Congratulations to the team for having their work recognized by academics and other community ICT programs from around the world.

Editorial
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Editorial: Putting Our Work in Context
Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=106


Articles
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Is Community Informatics Good for Communities?  Questions Confronting an Emerging Field
Randy R Stoecker, University of Toledo
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=14

Community Democratization of Telecommunications Community Cooperatives in Argentina:  The Case Of TELPIN
Susana Finquelievich, LINKS
Graciela Cecilia Kisilevsky,
University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Social Sciences
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=84

Crisis, Farming & Community
Chris Hagar, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigne
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=89

Cybercafés and their potential as Community Development Tools in India
Anikar Michael Haseloff, Universität Augsburg
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=68

ICTs and Community and Suggestions for Further Research in Scotland
Anna Malina, e-Society Research and University of Dundee
Ian W. Ball, University of Dundee, Scotland
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=52

Structuration, ICTs, and Community Work
Larry Stillman, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Randy  Stoecker, University of Toledo
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=54


Points of View
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Community Networking as Radical Practice
Garth Graham,
Victoria, Canada http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=88


Notes and cases from the field (practitioners)
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Position Paper: Turning the Corner with First Nations Telehealth
Geordi Kakepetum, Keewaytinook Okimakanak
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=105

Report From the Field: The RICTA Meeting Video
Susan O'Donnell, National Research Council Canada
Brian Walmark, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute
Cal Kenny, Knet, Keewaytinook Okimakanak
http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=104

KiHS: Bridging the Traditional and Virtual Classroom in Canada's First Nation Schools
Brian Walmark, Keewaytinook Okimakanak http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=34


The Journal of Community Informatics
http://www.ci-journal.net/

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