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Outline your proposed
Smart services and identify which community needs they will address.
The Kuh-ke-nah network
will implement three major projects to encourage and stimulate
use of SMART services. The Data Warehouse Initiative will develop
inter-institutional criteria and data standards for the development
of interoperable databases. The Kuh-ke-nah Portal will provide
a point of convergence for network communities and will bring
together needed and useful local information for various user
groups and applications. Information Technology Centres will host
a range of broadband services and support the electronic resource
needs of lifelong learners, businesses and teleworkers.
1. Data
Warehouse Initiative
- Working
Group - to establish inter-institutional
partnerships with agencies such as the First Nations Health
Information Services, Indian Affairs, provincial Ministry of
Education and Industry Canada, to develop criteria for developing
an interoperable database platform for electronic record development
in each community and to set access standards for use by health,
education, and social service professionals, First Nations Administrators
and government agencies.
2. Kuh-ke-nah
Portal (Internet)
- Web
Interface - personalized web access and e-mail, Networked
Community Radio - streamed audio of what's on the radio in each
community, a Youth Recreation Website, Native Language Dictionary
and resource tools, a Digital Art and Crafts Gallery, a Community
Announcements Board, and Dynamic Digital Literacy Support.
- Community
Development Tools - data interchange demonstrations and
user support for small businesses, and local government administrators
(data transfer, inventory control) and web presence for use
of e-commerce services (marketing, e-mail, and on-line bidding).
- Government
On-line - support for use of on-line communication tools
to guide community and regional plans, land use planning and
emergency preparedness planning, to facilitate access to provincial
and national government sites and services and to disseminate
local and regional records of decision such as hyperlinked Band
Council Minutes and audio streaming for Regional Chief's meetings.
3. Information
Technology Centres (Broadband)
- Lifelong
Learning and Community Well-Being - to facilitate the delivery
and convergence of broadband services for learners, clients,
professionals. Videoconference applications would include: teleconsults,
family counseling, staying in touch with high school learners
outside of the community, continuing medical education, professional
development, skills upgrading, and justice applications such
as bail and remand hearings. The ITC would also host multi-media
production facilities to support the development of culturally
and linguistically appropriate new media products, provide local
access to library resources and on-line reference materials.
It will host teleworkstations and support access for visually,
hearing and motor impaired users.
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