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(08 01 29) KORI hosts KO Education Directors video conference

Geordi Kakepetum and his education team gathered at the Thunder Bay office to participate in a video conference linking all of the KO education directors today... The directors were briefed on the latest developments in the creation of a KO Board of Education... Goyce Kakegamic who has been visiting the KO communities to gather feedback on the issue reported his progress and his findings... The Directors discussed their options in light of INAC opposition... The KO education team continues their work in Thunder Bay tomorrow by attending the NAN education jurisdiction meeting...

Lots of Visitors

KORI staff are juggling three events here at Thunder Bay's KO offices... Geordi Kakepetum and his education team are working in the Chiefs' boardroom preparing for tomorrow's meeting of the Education Directors... In the main work area, local women including Orpah McKenzie are participating in the First Nations Women's Leadership conference... and Brian W is meeting via video conference with the KiHS evaluation team...

The last minute details have been ironed out ... On Wednesday, Drew Hayton Taylor will address First Nations high school students at Magnus Theatre in Thunder Bay... His remarks are being video taped and will be archived for future use by KiHS students who are studying his plays in Grade 10 English...

ONe-Health Meeting participants agree to work together

KORI's Brian Walmark participated in the inaugural meeting of the ONe-Health Information Network, a gathering of the LHINs in the Northeast and Northwest, the hospitals and community health organizations... The main goal of the group is to implement the Northern Ontario e-Health Tachnical Plan... The participants were briefed on the new e-Health strategy of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care... To see a summary of the briefing, click here...To see photos, click here...

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...