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Using Broadband Connections to Revitalize Communities: The Keewaytinook Okimakanak story

Using Broadband Connections to Revitalize Communities: The Keewaytinook Okimakanak story. Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute (KORI) Presenta tion to CED Ontario Connections to Revitalize Communities (6 June 2011). Words We Live By.

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Using Broadband Connections to Revitalize Communities: The Keewaytinook Okimakanak story

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  1. Using Broadband Connections to Revitalize Communities: The Keewaytinook Okimakanak story KeewaytinookOkimakanak Research Institute (KORI) Presentation to CED Ontario Connections to Revitalize Communities (6 June 2011)

  2. Words We Live By • “Our people missed the Industrial Revolution, our people can’t afford to miss the ICT revolution” Grand Chief Stan Beardy • “People say the ‘Net is some kind of highway… If this is true, I want our children to be drivers, not passenger.” KO Elder

  3. Research Driven by Community Goals and Needs • KO Leadership created KORI to build research capacity at the local level and to build bridges with supportive university academics • KO is a partner of CRACIN, founding member of RICTA and DERAC and other knowledge clusters • KO in partnership with LU Faculty of Education won a SSHRC grant to study First Nations digital education • KO works in partnership with the National Research Council, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and universities across Canada, the United States and Europe • People are interested in what the KO First Nations have accomplished and are planning to do

  4. KO works with Families and Communities KO is mentoring the Next Generation of Computer and Network Technicians and Community Researchers

  5. Elders are central to KORI’s research activities

  6. Its not about Technology or Machines

  7. Its about Relationships

  8. Capacity Building at the Community Level First Nations youth teaching the next generation

  9. Its about building capacity among First Nations community members in computer and network applications and building sustainable relationships with First Nations, the public and private sectors.

  10. KO is partnering with university academics to share the many broadband “success stories” in the north

  11. KO partners with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and other agencies to research and develop community-based programmes

  12. KO is partnering with Indigenous Peoples around the world to share promising practices and lessons learned

  13. “Its all about community”

  14. Its about working for a better future

  15. For More Information Brian Walmark, Director of Research KO Research Institute brianwalmark@knet.ca

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