E-learning strategy in the works.ADnet may be getting a little closer to its goal of providing broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a to remote areas of Algoma Algoma may refer to:
Wilf Lefresne, executive director of the Algoma District Community Network (AD-net) says the organization has applied for nearly $100,000 in second-phase funding from the Connect Ontario: Broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). Regional Access (COBRA cobra, name for African and Asian snakes of the family Elapidae that are equipped with inflatable neck hoods. The family also includes the African mambas, the Asian kraits, the New World coral snakes and a large number of Australian snakes. ) program of the Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation (MEOI). "It is a multi-phase program in that, in the first phase, organizations apply by letter of intent to participate, followed in the second phase by developing business plan complete with technical and business solutions," he says. "The third step is to apply for capital funding at the 50 per cent level to implement the program." The second phase funding will provide up to $100,000 for development of the business plan, he says. "We are just in the process of submitting the application for $94,000 in assistance (from COBRA). It's a $140,000-program, which ADnet will be donating the remainder," he says. He says the October provincial election halted several government programs temporarily, but Lefresne says he does not anticipate any difficulty in getting the funding from the new administration of Premier-elect Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. . "We are a strong believer in the role broadband Internet See broadband. will play in the economic development of the North...and it's not just a matter of putting the network in. We also go around and inform people what it's about and what some of the opportunities are," he says. The network, once developed, has the potential to provide 44,000 people in the Algoma district access to broadband Internet. |
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