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The Chiefs of Keewaytinook Okimakanak met in Balmertown to review the programs being delivered by their organization. As well, future plans and new initiatives were presented and discussed. Click here to see the pictures.

The multi-media presentation containing the stories, video clips and stories as told by the Fort Severn elders is now available on-line. The twelve day journey through their traditional territories along the Severn River captures the oral history and teachings from the elders as it is pasted on to their children and their children's children. Click here to view the presentations (be sure to click on the different points along the Severn River). 

The coordinating team for the Kuhkenah Language iishikiishiwin Workshop met this past week to discuss the workshop content and facilitation. From the invitation poster ...

This conference is for:

• Ontario Aboriginal Language Teachers / Instructors who know about and use the Internet and communication technologies,
• Ontario Aboriginal Language Teachers who are interested in using these technologies for the purposes of teaching the language and working with other language instructors to develop and support on-line resources.

Objectives:

• Using the Internet and computer-mediated tools for the instruction of Aboriginal languages
• Producing and sharing web and multi-media products for language instructors.

A web site has been set up for the workshop facilitators to post all the latest information about this gathering. Watch this web site at http://language.firstnationschools.ca/ for all the latest updates of this workshop that is scheduled for March 23 and 24 in Thunder Bay.

Click here for pictures of the planning team meeting.

Brian Walmark, First Nations SchoolNet Special Projects Coordinator, worked with Seven Generations Education Institute to host another web development workshop for First Nation schools and groups from the Fort Frances region. Jesse Fiddler, K-Net's Multi-media Manager, travelled from Sioux Lookout to lead this workshop. A number of technical and weather related challenges forced everyone to adopt a very flexible agenda. A full network, lack of available IP numbers for the wireless lab, along with frozen vehicles and full hotels due to a hockey tournament created a great learning opportunity for everyone to experience a variety of troubleshooting strategies to support the creation of new web sites.

Personal web pages at MyKnet.org continue to be the most popular on-line space for the Nishnawbe Aski to browse. In January there were over 30 million hits on this K-Net server (over 9 million more hits from the previous month)! The average daily hits on this server rose to nearly 1 million hits each day!

The new games web site along with new First Nation school and community web sites also created an increase in the usage of these on-line services.

All together there were over 40 MILLION hits occurring on the seven most popular monitored K-Net servers throughout January. Specifically, on these seven servers with traffic graphs, there were a total of 40,396,885 hits made to these on-line services provided by Keewaytinook Okimakanak. The seven servers generating this amount of traffic include myknet.org, knet.ca, webmail.knet.ca, hosting.knet.ca, highschool.knet.ca, games.knet.ca and photos.knet.ca (just click on the server to see the traffic monitoring chart for each server). There were 654,682 visits made during this period to these seven servers, indicating that people are exploring these sites more and more.

Most of the K-Net servers that are being monitored for hits, visits and usage statistics using the webalizer program again showed an increase during the month. But http://myknet.org rose by nearly 10 million hits to demonstrate the rapid take up of these communication tools among users across the north.

Please note:

• other on-line K-Net services, such as K-Net chat and the video streamer are not included in these numbers;
• server traffic monitoring information is located at http://tech.knet.ca/~tech/monitoring/webalizer

Several Health Canada officials held meetings with members of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak team to discuss connectivity solutions to support the needs of their staff in the remote First Nations.

Native Youth Convention

Date: February 6, 7 & 8, 2004, 7 pm nigthly

Where: Victoria Inn, 555 West Arthur Street

Evangelists: Lott Thunder

                         Mark Stanl

Youth Pastor:  Marty Mclean

featuring: Rose Thunder (promoting her new  album"SHINE")

Also:  Philadelphia Gospel Band, from Peguis, Manitoba

            Ivan & Vanessa Sawan, from Slave Lake, Alberta

For more info:

Alicia Thunder: 807.577.8627
Harvey Yesno: 807.473.5287
Marty Mclean: 204.261.5526

Hotel info: 1.800.387.3331 or 1.807.577.8481                

On February 20, 21, 22, 2004 Mishkeegogamang will be hosting its first annual invitational Broomball tournament.

Everyone interested in joining this great experience feel free to contact the recreation committee @

807-928-2414 or 807-928-2805

For the spectators, there is usually a lot of good competition between our home teams.  There are usually 3-4 power house teams down here that are committed to winning the ultimate prize of 1st place.......so if you have a broomball team don't be scared to come out, have fun and see if you can steal 1st place from us.  

For your information the defending champs are called the "FALCONS".

Another team that is known to be a big power house is the team from ten houses. They are named Ten Houses Attack.

So if anyone is interested feel free to call the band office in Mishkeegogamang for more information.

Thank you for taking time in reading this and come out if you think your team is good.

Or you can reach us via fax at (807)928-2077.

Members of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak team met today with the Federal government's Broadband Interdepartmental Working Group (BBIWG). KO staff shared stories and priorities identified in our region and through our work as the Ontario Regional Management Organization for Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program.

The BBIWG is chaired by Ross MacLeod, Director General, IHAB Programs and brings together department leads in connectivity issues for all federal government departments. Click here to see picture of Ross and the SchoolNet's team to the Sioux Lookout area.

Suzanne Robert, Manager of Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program, and her team worked with KO's Lars Dixon to bring the folks located in Ottawa with three RMO sites (Sask/Alberta,  Manitoba and Ontario). Lars rans the system tests with the folks at the Ottawa site before the meeting and then managed the video bridge from Balmertown throughout the session. The Ottawa site dialed into the Kuh-ke-nah Broadband Network through the K-Net gateway and was able to join the three RMO sites that are connected over their broadband IP connections on K-Net (see the picture of the five sites below).

Handouts for the meeting participants included the series of K-Net Case Studies (click here to go to the multi-media flash presentation that also contains the PDF files of each of these case studies) as well as an updated presentation about the Kuh-ke-nah Broadband Network (click here to see a copy of the network description).

A computer virus spread via e-mail has been described by security experts as the "largest virus outbreak in months".

The malicious worm, called Mydoom or Novarg, has clogged networks and may allow unauthorised access to computers.

Mydoom, the latest e-mail virus, is faster and bigger than 2003's
speedy record-breaker, Sobig.F

Click here to read the full story

Click here for more information and fixes from Symantec (Norton) for infected computers