Next Steps to a Connected Alberta No Charge
Where: Hanna Learning Centre
When: Tuesday, October 26 - Vision for a Digital Alberta
Tuesday, November 2 - What’s Changed and What is Changing
Tuesday, November 9 - Organizing for a Digital Future
Time: 9:00 a.m. to Noon
Communities Without Boundaries has coordinated a series of videoconference round tables to engage videoconference stakeholders throughout the province. The sessions will be hosted at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta as well as videoconference facilities in Hanna, Cold Lake, Hinton and more.
Vision for a Digital Alberta - The first step in building a digital and connected Alberta is to imagine it and this round table will provide the opportunity to share your vision with others across the province.
What’s Changed and What is Changing - The second session will focus on the availability and use of broadband and other digital services and how those have developed in the last few years.
Organizing for a Digital Future - Many organizations in the commercial, government, municipal and not-for-profit sectors are addressing aspects of the needs of Albertans, but with no overall plan or vision. The Organizing for a Digital Future session will undertake discussion on how to move forward collectively.
CwoB grew out of the Alberta SuperNet Research Alliance and the face-to-face Communities without Boundaries Conference in Olds in 2007. This was followed by a Round Table on Rural Connectivity in March 2008 and the Communities Without Boundaries Virtual Conference the following fall, which attracted over 200 participants to 21 videoconference facilities. Since then much has been done to increase digital capacity in both rural and urban Alberta, such as the Olds Institute’s Fibre to the Premises initiative, Parkland County’s wireless broadband development, the advent of smart phones and the building of applications such as the 24-7 Alberta Web 2.0 platform. However the sense remains that Canada and Alberta are lagging behind the rest of the world and that rural Alberta still suffers from the digital divide.
For more information on Communities Without Boundaries and the round table sessions go to http://www.communitieswithoutboundaries.ca
Please call the Hanna Learning Centre at 403.854.2099 if you wish to attend at the Hanna site.