<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is my personal e-mail address and N-CAP's address is <a href="mailto:ncap.nunavut@gmail.com">ncap.nunavut@gmail.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>In a nutshell, here is what has happened in Nunavut. I have been getting progressively more and more ill since last fiscal. Due to a lot of time missed at work, the Government of Nunavut did not renew my contract come April 1, 2014. I attempted to keep things going myself but my illness combined with deep depression put me into a tail spin leading to hospitalization in January/February. I still have to go back for surgery (still seeing specialists and uncertain as to date). In the mean time, there was nobody to keep things up and I was just unable to keep up/cope. I have stepped back from almost everything that I had been doing - CAP, CFS, ICANN, TC and life in general. I am now trying to pick up some of the pieces and at least hit the Government of Nunavut now that I have put N-CAP back in good standing and they now have it on Hansard that the Department of Education has money for the CAP system.</div><div><br></div><div>I am sorry for letting TC down as one of the many groups I was involved in and have let slip. I am now at least keeping up with the e-mails and getting some things moving but am still of very limited use to the system.</div><div><br></div><div>So, there you go. I do miss you all VERY much and hope to slowly get more involved but we shall have to see.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to those of you who were concerned!</div><div><br></div><div>Darlene</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Brian Beaton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.beaton@knet.ca" target="_blank">brian.beaton@knet.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Good evening ... I just wrote an email to Darlene Thompson using her gov't<br>
of Nunavut account and it bounced. Does anyone have her new email address? I<br>
hope she is doing okay wherever she lands ...<br>
<br>
Woliwon<br>
<br>
Brian Beaton<br>
Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute<br>
Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project<br>
Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of New<br>
Brunswick<br>
Settler ally of Indigenous peoples and future generations<br>
Contact Details:<br>
Snail Mail: Box 104, Station A, Unceded Wolastoqey Traditional Lands,<br>
Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y2<br>
T: <a href="tel:877-737-5638%20x4522" value="+18777375638" target="_blank">877-737-5638 x4522</a><br>
E: <a href="mailto:brian.beaton@unb.ca" target="_blank">brian.beaton@unb.ca</a><br>
First Nations Innovation - Researching and Publishing First Nation ICT<br>
innovations - <a href="http://fn-innovation-pn.com" target="_blank">http://fn-innovation-pn.com</a> and <a href="http://fni.firstnation.ca" target="_blank">http://fni.firstnation.ca</a><br>
KO Tribal Council - <a href="http://knet.ca" target="_blank">http://knet.ca</a> and KORI - <a href="http://research.knet.ca" target="_blank">http://research.knet.ca</a><br>
e-Community - Bringing People Together with ICT innovations -<br>
<a href="http://e-community.knet.ca" target="_blank">http://e-community.knet.ca</a><br>
First Mile - Sharing First Nation ICT stories and innovations -<br>
<a href="http://firstmile.ca" target="_blank">http://firstmile.ca</a><br>
University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Education, Graduate Studies and<br>
Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Institute - <a href="http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/education" target="_blank">http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/education</a> and<br>
<a href="http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/education/mmi" target="_blank">http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/education/mmi</a><br>
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From: <a href="mailto:advisors-bounces@tc.ca" target="_blank">advisors-bounces@tc.ca</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:advisors-bounces@tc.ca" target="_blank">advisors-bounces@tc.ca</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
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To: <a href="mailto:advisors@tc.ca" target="_blank">advisors@tc.ca</a><br>
Subject: [Advisors] FW: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Admin hiccups<br>
jeopardize public internet "CAP" sites in Nunavut<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:cracin-canada-owner@vancouvercommunity.net" target="_blank">cracin-canada-owner@vancouvercommunity.net</a><br>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:cracin-canada-owner@vancouvercommunity.net" target="_blank">cracin-canada-owner@vancouvercommunity.net</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
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Sent: March 3, 2015 11:41 AM<br>
To: cracin discussion<br>
Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Admin hiccups jeopardize public<br>
internet "CAP" sites in Nunavut<br>
<br>
Admin hiccups jeopardize public internet "CAP" sites in Nunavut<br>
<br>
"... With money running out, a vanished Government of Nunavut administrator<br>
and a lot of confusion over what constitutes "good standing"<br>
for a board of directors, free, public internet access across Nunavut might<br>
be in jeopardy.<br>
<br>
The funding, provided under the Community Access Program since 2012 by the<br>
GN and by the federal government prior to that, pays for new computers and<br>
internet service at public locations across the territory such as libraries<br>
and community centres.<br>
<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
"The Community Access Program is a program that is run by a board, and at<br>
this time . the board is not in good standing," Quassa said in response to a<br>
question from Iqaluit-Tasiluk MLA George Hickes.<br>
<br>
This lack of "good standing" means his department cannot provide any funding<br>
to the board, Quassa added.<br>
<br>
But Catherine Hoyt, chairperson of the Friends of the Iqaluit Centennial<br>
Library since 2006, told Nunatsiaq News that there must be a mix-up between<br>
the education department and the Nunavut Community Access Program (or N-CAP)<br>
board.<br>
<br>
Hoyt's organization operates the library CAP site - the only public internet<br>
access in Iqaluit.<br>
<br>
"Whether or not the N-CAP board is in good standing, I have no idea. But<br>
we've never dealt with the board at all. We've only dealt with GN employees<br>
who administered the N-CAP program. That's who we've always submitted our<br>
proposals to, our receipts and our invoices to, at the end of the year,"<br>
Hoyt said March 2.<br>
<br>
In a letter to Quassa dated Feb. 22, shared with Nunatsiaq News, Hoyt wrote<br>
that she feared the consequences of this mix-up would cause hardship for<br>
some of Iqaluit's most vulnerable, impoverished people.<br>
<br>
"Approximately 95 per cent of our CAP site users are Inuit who do not have<br>
home computers or any other access to computing services or the internet,"<br>
Hoyt wrote.<br>
<br>
"Any cut to our funding could have devastating effects on accessibility to<br>
the internet and technology for the Nunavummiut who need it the most."<br>
<br>
Hoyt said that received regular assurance from an education department<br>
administrator that the roughly $6,000 in annual funding her society receives<br>
was still coming.<br>
<br>
Usually the money arrives anywhere between September and December, Hoyt<br>
said, so she didn't start worrying until Christmas rolled around and the<br>
department still hadn't offered a contribution agreement.<br>
<br>
And then in January, her emails to the usual administrator suddenly went<br>
unanswered.<br>
<br>
"Finally an answer came: 'oh, that administrator doesn't work here anymore.<br>
If you have any questions you have to contact Ron Elliott, the chair of the<br>
board'," Hoyt said.<br>
<br>
"And I thought, 'who's he? Why should I have to contact him?' I would've<br>
contacted him a long time ago, but I didn't realize he had anything to do<br>
with the whole process."<br>
<br>
According to Hoyt, Elliott gave a different story from what she had been<br>
told by the education department.<br>
<br>
Elliott informed Hoyt that no money had been released to the N-CAP board by<br>
the education department and that even if there was money, there was no<br>
longer a GN administrator to facilitate that release. ..."<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674admin_hiccups_jeopardizing_public_internet_sites_in_nunavut/" target="_blank">http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674admin_hiccups_jeopardizin<br>
g_public_internet_sites_in_nunavut/</a><br>
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