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

[Norah Fountain]

Absolutely Lynda. There are four children who huddle outside the doors of
the Torrance community centre cap site next door to me (A CAP site thanks t=
o
Lynda Rickard and Phyllis Ingram).. These kids are reading off mobile
phones. It's all they have. CAP is crucial for our area - one of the lowest
income areas in Ontario (of course the feds think Muskokans are all rich so
that's an ongoing problem).
ALSO, without watering down your message, I'd still like to see an ongoing
reminder that we need better tech. The Cap site here has such low bandwidth
that kids can't take courses, etc, on it. But there's really no ability to
expand. I'm just up the street and can't stream video successfully, etc,  a=
t
under 2 megs up and down via wireless radio. Still no DSL here or anything
else to choose from except for the even worse option - satellite. At least
we're connected, but I was out for a week last month. And GUESS WHAT - I wa=
s
saved by a neighborhood CAP site or I might have lost even more work than I
did.

Let me know if anyone wants to write a nice email to Tony Clement and cc
this IC fellow in.

Without Internet, I would be on social assistance - there are no other jobs
for me here than writing for the web for clients in urban areas.

Norah Fountain
Communications Specialist
Your message is my life=B9s work.
T: 705.762.2122




On 07/12/11 4:58 PM, "Lynda Rickard" <lynda.rickard@tag4kl.org> wrote:

> We need to tell them CAP means "everything to disadvantage individuals an=
d
> families that do not have computer access, cannot afford same BUT DO trav=
el
> to a public site to try to take advantage and better themselves.   We cou=
ld
> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: advisors-admin@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-admin@tc.ca] On Behalf Of Mar=
ita
> Moll
> Sent: December-07-11 10:21 AM
> To: advisors@tc.ca
> Subject: [Advisors] meeting with Industry Canada -- Dec. 8th
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> Hello advisors.
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> We suddenly got a response from Industry Canada late last week inviting u=
s
> to meet with one of Minister Paradis' policy advisors -- Bruce Winchester=
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> The meeting date offered was Thursday, Dec. 8th.  Darlene and Monique (wi=
th
> Patrick Dub=E9) and possibly Peter Frampton jumped on board and we accepted
> the offer.  Because of the travel involved (Nunavut) we have been accorde=
d a
> bit  more time than usual -- 45 min -
> 1 hour.  Darlene and Monique will both be bringing power points to show o=
ff
> 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 b=
ut
> I'm putting together what I can for this meeting.)
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> Our elevator pitch is as follows:
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> 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
> identified as important.   We will try to make
> 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.
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> After our meeting with In Can we are going to head down the street and ma=
ke
> a similiar presentation at the CIRA offices.
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> Wish us luck (whatever that means in this context)!!!!
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> Marita
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Norah Fountain
Communications Specialist
Your message is my life=B9s work.
T: 705.762.2122