[Advisors] CAP futures workshop -- BC summit

[Marita Moll]

Not for the purposes of the B.C. summit (wheww!)

Marita

At 05:17 PM 09/01/2012, Lynda Rickard wrote:
>Will we still need to think about how the name translates into French?
>
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>From: advisors-admin@tc.ca [mailto:advisors-admin@tc.ca] On Behalf Of Garth
>Graham
>Sent: January-09-12 4:33 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Advisors] CAP futures workshop -- BC summit
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>On 2012-01-08, at 4:26 PM, James Van Leeuwen wrote:
>This might be a better title:  Advancing Community Access in Canada: Towards
>a Better Strategy
>
>There's more in that title than the content of a workshop.  On the subject
>of re-branding CAP "to take the current political climate into account,"
>James is pointing to a really good tag - Community Access.  TC.CA = TC is
>about Community Access.  Using phrases like "digital inclusion," (as I have
>been doing!) with its social program connotations, is likely to cause a
>federal reaction similar to waving a national energy policy in front of an
>Albertan.  But there's nothing to stop us appropriating the language of a
>federally initiated and now abandoned program, and then remaking it in our
>own image.  Because of anchoring the brand in the idea of community, we also
>take back high ground appropriated by agencies like CATA, which refers to
>community without much substance.  And "Community Access" fully encompasses
>TC's original and still active broader mandate to share the practices of
>community-networking and community development online.
>
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