[net-gold] Nunavut Takes Over Community Internet Access CAP Funding
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- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 13:51:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 02:48:42 -0400
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Nunavut Takes Over Community Internet Access CAP Funding
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Nunavut Takes Over Community Internet Access (CAP) Funding
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"...The money will come from
the Department of Education.
Premier Eva Aariak said the
benefits for the more than
20 CAP site projects in Nunavut
outweigh the cost.
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?Everything learned during these
projects contribute to building
employability skills, which is
so very important," she said.
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"It is our goal to help Nunavummiut
communicate and learn using
information technology so they
can participate in the growing
digital society.?..."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/
2012/05/26/north-cap-funding-nunavut.html
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Nunavut May 25, 2012 - 2:13 pm
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Nunavut steps in to save free public internet sites
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?It is very important to provide that
service to our communities?
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"...This past April, N-CAP, the Nunavut
organization that received and
administered money from the federal
Community Access Program, learned the
Harper government had eliminated the
program in its budget this past March.
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The volunteers who run CAP sites across
Nunavut, most of which operate out
of libraries or schools, feared numerous
lower income residents would lose
access to the internet.
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?Even if people have their own computers,
the cost of internet here is
such that most families cannot afford it,?
Kim Crockatt, director of the
Nunavut Literacy Council, told
Nunatsiaq News this past April.
Many residents use CAP sites to
update and print resumés, look for jobs
and search for information...."
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http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/
article/65674nunavut_steps_in_to_save_
free_public_internet_sites/
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