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Mission Statement
"To form regional partnerships to make investments in technology that promote regional decision making, support economic development, transform research and education, and boost the competitiveness of the Okanagan in a knowledge-based economy. "

Our Purpose
"To encourage and pursue the development of a fiber-based, open-access next-generation network (NGN), equally available to all citizens and service providers, replacing the traditional model of vertically integrated or imperfectly unbundled networks and limited facilities."

 

Case Study
WREPNet:

Ministry of Education in Ontario approved a one-time infrastructure grant of $10 million to an alliance of public sector organizations to manage a public infrastructure in Kitchener Waterloo called WREPNet. WREPNet connects 227 locations through personal computers at each site, including all WCDSB and WRDSB schools in Waterloo Region, school board, municipal and regional government administration offices, and services such as fire stations, recreation facilities and golf courses, public library branches and community college campuses......<more>

Case Study
 Kamloops Community Network:

The Kamloops Community Network will be a publicly owned and operated utility providing the businesses and citizen's of Kamloops with high speed, low cost communications. The benefits include providing businesses in the community with easy, economical access to high-speed network providing an edge, which in turn attracts new businesses to the community - economic development. Service providers will have the freedom to offer new services that take advantage of this open high speed  infrastructure to customers .......<more>

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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

In the beginning....

This blog is provided as a means of communicating the progress of the Okanagan Regional Network (ORNet) project to all stakeholders and anyone else who is interested. Please feel free to post comments to any of the posts and let us know your thoughts, or anything you feel might help make this project a success.

posted by Okanagan Regional Network at 9:33 AM  

1 Comments:

Okanagan Partnership said...

Welcome to the Okanagan Net Blog. Many thanks to Phil Ashman from Okanagan College and Co-chair of the Okanagan Net technical team for creating this blog site.

Our intent is to be able to use this blog to support project communications. As we development the feasibility study and business plan you are encouraged to post feedback, provide suggestions and generate solutions.

We welcome your input.

3:14 PM  

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