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[CAC] National Connecting Aboriginal Canadians Forum
The National Connecting Aboriginal Canadians Forum |
The National Connecting Aboriginal Canadians forum is an inter-departmental and national Aboriginal stakeholder sponsored event designed to:
- hear and share aboriginal connectivity “best practices” from across a number of community, governments and national aboriginal organizations
- increase the collective awareness of the potential aboriginal social and economic benefits to be derived from the information highway
- better understand and discuss possible “connectivity” challenges facing aboriginal communities and learn how different regions, governments, departments and communities are overcoming these.
The proceedings of this forum will act as a virtual clearing house of: community “best practices”; departmental connectivity pilots; rapidly evolving telecommunication technologies; and the identification of barriers. It is hoped that by working together, all public and private sector stakeholders may come to better understand their potential respective contributions towards creating a forward oriented Aboriginal vision of social and economic growth for the 21st Century.
To ensure a broad and lasting impact, the forum and associated material will be web-cast live to all interested stakeholders through the Aboriginal Canada Portal and thereafter archived for future reference.
The proposed multi-stakeholder conference will bring together approximately 110 representatives from leading-edge aboriginal communities and organizations, provincial aboriginal and e-health representatives, key federal connectivity departments and aboriginal IT firms.
The format of the conference includes a multi stakeholder panel of key federal departments and national Aboriginal organizations. A series of federal, provincial and community presentations will be made for each key theme areas of infrastructure, digital content and awareness, e-applications and e-skills and training. Each key theme will also be followed by workshops and reportages to the multi-stakeholder panel on new opportunities and challenges. A synthesis of these results will be aggregated by the conference panel and presented to senior departmental and Aboriginal leaders.
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