Describe your community's
past experience in establishing and sustaining effective public/private
sector partnerships.
KNET's work is predicated
on sustainable partnerships for community development. These partnerships
enable key technical and institutional infastructural changes
and have produced a critical mass of individuals in communities
who are driving system-wide transformations.
During the past three
years KNET has worked with Bell Canada and FedNor to initiate
and coordinate regional telecommunications improvement projects
such as the North of Red Lake Digital Radio Upgrade, the Satellite
Served First Nations Upgrade, the Deer Lake and Poplar Hill Telecommunication
Digital Data Service Upgrade, the North Spirit Lake Telecom Service
Development, and the Keewaywin Telecom Service Development. KNET
has also worked with the Government Telecommunications and Information
Service, First Nations SchoolNet, and the Community Access Program
to develop wireless connectivity infrastructure for 24 remote
First Nations (see Appendix E: Letters of Endorsement for descriptions
of various partnerships).
KNET Services plays
a lead role in the regional diffusion of information-based literacies.
KNET has partnered with Industry Canada, HRDC, INAC, the Sioux
Lookout Area Aborginal Management Board (SLAAMB), Confederation
College and Lakehead University to coordinate and support community-based
technology transfer. KNET has delivered training programs such
as the Computer Technician Training Project, the Community Access
Coordinator/Network Administrator and Webmaster Project, and the
Telecommunications Support Technician Project.
