KORI Team Activities

ONe-Health Steering Committee gathering in Toronto for first meeting

KORI’s Brian Walmark has been preparing today for the inaugural meeting of the ONe-Health network which is meeting on Friday in Toronto… Brian has consulted with KOTM’s Donna Williams and K-Net’s Brian Beaton to discuss some of the goals and objectives that the North needs to realize as a result of this gathering… As part of this process, KOTM Nancy Grieves will be working with a sub-committee of this group to look and privacy and security policies for telehealth in Ontario…

Preparing to Share

(08 01 14) Preparations continue for the community visit of NRC's Susan O'Donnell and her VideoCom team who will be coming up north ... This is one of a series of commmunity visists that KORI will be involved with over the next month and a half including work with KOTM and its community visit with Fort Severn and Franz and the CWIRP project...

Lakehead University's Northern Studies Committee has invited me to brief them on the NIXON concept paper this week... Most of the work of the committee involves scientific or social sciences research outside of technology but it is a good gateway into the university for this project...

Throughout the day, we are monitoring the Aboriginal Research Conference gathering via web streaming... My participation is limited to watching... there is no discussion forum for those who are participating in the web stream...

January 11, 2008

First week back to work,  still getting use to "blog", we also submit daily journals in the YICT moodle website but I record my entries and submit them at the end of the week. Spent most of this week on my Cisco IT Essentials Modules and the slide presentation.

 Martina

Exciting Research Opportunites

(08 01 11) For the past three days, KORI staff participated both face-to-face and on-line with representatives of NIXON, the consortium of three Aboriginal organizations in northern Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba that came together to access more bandwidth for the sat-served communities through the public benefit... The goal of the research component is to develop research capacitcy at the community level across the provincial norths ... Michael Gurstein, an academic leader in community informatics has been contracted to mentor this process... He plans to visit the NIXON partners over the next few months as the research process is developed...

January 8, 2008

Happy New Year!

Back from the holidays and my first day of work went by really fast. I am currently working on a slide for Brian Walmark that he wants to share with others. In this slide we are trying to inform those who do not know a lot about our organization/programs purpose and value to First Nations people. Its still a work in progess but looking very good.

Martina