[Advisors] Fwd: My two cents- Report of meeting -- InCan - Dec. 8

[Marita Moll]

I am forwarding some of Dana's comments on the report of the meeting with InCan

Marita

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>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:02:24 -0400
>From: Dana Perry <awvcscor@valleylibrary.ca>
>To: Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net>
>Subject: My two cents- Report of meeting -- InCan - Dec. 8
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>Good day Marita,
>
>Read through the email outlining the meeting with Bruce
>Winchester...would seem to indicate the writing on the wall.  One
>thing in it struck a chord with me.  And I paraphrase...?You folks
>need a champion.? ...What strikes me about this as I have conducted
>numerous community meetings in our region in Nova Scotia(think of us
>as one slice of the pie) throughout the last several years.
>Participants from municipal politics, education, business, private
>citizens all indicated that the CAP program should be/has to be the
>"champion" that pulls it all together.  Participants all agreed that
>the CAP program, although funded through government, has a level of
>impartiality...and further to that, is able to offer ground level
>services to the public that are otherwise unavailable.
>Business/Computer classes that may be offered in larger urban areas
>simply do not exist in our rural areas.
>
>What may be the "mandate" in a bureaucratic policy meeting/caucus etc
>may not(and I believe this to be the case) be an accurate what the
>tax-paying voting public really need.  Even with the expanded
>broadband services in our country, our CAP sites continue to be busy
>as ever.
>
>But then again, I don't think I am telling you anything you don't
>already know.
>
>
>--
>Dana Perry
>Regional Coordinator
>Association of Western Valley C@P Sites
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