KORI Community Stories and Events

(07 10 18) Have you ever wondered what KORI does but were afraid to ask? ... click here to find out!

(07 10 18) During the last KO Education Directors meeting in Balmertown, Geordi Kakepetum, executive director, distributed KORI soceer balls to the member communities... Soceer balls were distributed in Keewaywin and Poplar Hill during earlier during community visits... To see photos, click...

 
(07 10 16) Conference proceedings from the World Congress on Communications and Development to be released on Wednesday, October 24 at 3:00 eastern standard time... The Rome meeting last October gathered policy makers, communications consultants and Indiginous peoples from around the world to discuss the effectiveness of...

(07 10 10) Canada Health Infoway (CHI) representatives are witnessing first hand the work of KO Telehealth at the community level... To see photos, click here...

(09/18/07) KO representatives from Public Works, the Water Treatment Training Centre and KORI met with OQUA to discuss ways to work together to ensure that First Nations in Ontario's far north have safe water...

(10/09/07) Raymond Mason, a former Chief of Keewaywin and a Community-Based Research (CBR) with KORI accepted some agreed to carry some KORI soccer balls back to Keewaywin with him... He shared the soccer balls with the KiHS classroom and the Keewaywin elementary school as well as with the youth worker... KORI is distributing the soccer balls...

(10/02/07) Members of the VideoCom research group meet regularly via video conference... VideoCom is composed of the National Research Council (NRC), K-Net, KORI and the Altantic HelpDesk... The purpose of the group is to explore the ways community people use video conferencing as a tool of communications... A number of research papers have...

KORI achieved a milestone this morning when it facilitated three IP video conferences with QOS at the same time... First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI) is running a province-wide financial planning workshop for First Nations administrators... KORI's Franz Seibel is meeting with Sabrina Hashum to develop an evaluation tool for the Mental...

Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) Youth Internship
Location:  Thunder Bay, Ontario             Term Position:  1year
Job Posting - ICT...

Sharon and Katherine successfully completed their work placement positions at KORI. The two students maintained project websites, participated in video conference workshops, conducted a survey, posted photos and contributed to KORI's research projects. Checkout Katherine's work on the...