[Advisors] meeting with Industry Canada -- Dec. 8th

[Lynda Rickard]

We need to tell them CAP means "everything to disadvantage individuals =
and
families that do not have computer access, cannot afford same BUT DO =
travel
to a public site to try to take advantage and better themselves.   We =
could
talk about how our work with CAP has led to us being the coordinators of =
our
Broadband implementation, which brought high speed to many of our rural
area, however we have so many low income people who can't afford =
Internet at
any price. =20
Lynda Rickard, Executive Director
Technology Alliance Group for Kawartha Lakes
50 Mary St. W., (front)
LINDSAY, ON    K9V 2N6
(705) 878-9261
(800) 407-6419
Focused on Helping People


-----Original Message-----
From: advisors-admin@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-admin@tc.ca] On Behalf Of =
Marita
Moll
Sent: December-07-11 10:21 AM
To: advisors@tc.ca
Subject: [Advisors] meeting with Industry Canada -- Dec. 8th


Hello advisors.

We suddenly got a response from Industry Canada late last week inviting =
us
to meet with one of Minister Paradis' policy advisors -- Bruce =
Winchester.
The meeting date offered was Thursday, Dec. 8th.  Darlene and Monique =
(with
Patrick Dub=E9) and possibly Peter Frampton jumped on board and we =
accepted
the offer.  Because of the travel involved (Nunavut) we have been =
accorded a
bit  more time than usual -- 45 min -
1 hour.  Darlene and Monique will both be bringing power points to show =
off
their innovative projects.  Darlene will also bring (hot off the press) =
a
copy of the book she has been working on (with Clarice) describing 40
innovative CAP projects.  I am putting together a small booklet with few
short (one page) versions of CAP stories highlighting community-based
services as digital economy building blocks (this is a work in progress =
but
I'm putting together what I can for this meeting.)

Our elevator pitch is as follows:

We are there to present a vision of CAP 2.0 that uses the creativity and
innovation in the community to achieve  social and economic benefits the
communities themselves have=20
identified as important.   We will try to make=20
the case that community innovation is really valuable and very
cost-effective -- but it needs some basic level of support to achieve =
the
stability necessary to start up and run such programmes.

After our meeting with In Can we are going to head down the street and =
make
a similiar presentation at the CIRA offices.

Wish us luck (whatever that means in this context)!!!!

Marita


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