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...

During the NIXON meeting in Sioux Lookout, the KOTM Change Management Project Advisory Committee met via videoconference... The PAC was briefed on the status of the four streams and were updated on developments associated with the sustainaibilty of First Nations telehealth in Ontario's far north and the migration of telehealth for the other First Nations in the north...

Discussions continued on the development of an e-book between Cal Kenny, Brian Walmark and the rest of the team ... Cal has developed a template to display those stories on-line...

KORI and K-Net are meeting with George Kenny of Lac Seul to support that community's efforts to create a history of that community...

KORI is supporting the work of Goyce Kakegamic who has been contracted by KO to conduct a series of community consultations on education ... He is visiting each member community of Keewaytinook Okimakanak before the end of the month...