The Executive Summary and Recommendations from the Final Report are now available. This document contains the Table of Content for the report and the preface providing some background information about this project.

Executive Summary & Recommendations (exec-summary.pdf - 155K)

The Final Report is large ... over 300 pages. The main body of the text (203 pages) is stored as an Acrobat file (2.5M in size). You can view it on-line or download it to your machine by right clicking on the document and select SAVE TARGET AS ...

NAN-Wide / SMART Final Report - Parts 1 & 2 (NAN-wide.pdf)

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In Fall 1998, K-Net agreed to lead a NAN-wide initiative to accelerate the regional use and adoption of ICTs. Our work reflects an applied strategy to improve access to affordable telecommunications services by implementing, testing and refining community-based applications and delivery models.

A special thanks to Industry Canada / FedNor for their continued support and assistance in making this dream a reality.

This report is a summary of many partners working together to support the development of broadband telecommunication services in this part of Northwestern Ontario. Our work and efforts to build infrastructure and appropriate applications is only just BEGINNING! Over the past few years, we opened the door and introduced the opportunities that ICTs afford First Nations. Now, as this report documents, all the First Nations in this region are positioning themselves to take advantage of these new communication tools to share with the rest of the world.

By Fall 2000, K-Net projects had animated significant positive change within the NAN telecommunications environment. Many of the projects identified within the report were piloted in Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations and subsequently migrated to other NAN communities, regions and organizations. The transfer of these solutions reflects a healthy collaboration among regional First Nations, their federal and provincial partners and ICT vendors and suppliers.

It is anticipated that implementation of new initiatives – such as the K-Net broadband network, the TDMA pilot, the regional telehealth initiative and the Keewaytinook Aboriginal SMART communities demonstration project – will create a broader context for diffusing ICT tools, skills and knowledge and sustaining community capacity to use telecommunications for local development.

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