Timmins-based IT training project advances.A program for information technology training in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it is starting to move ahead. The Community Access Network for Information Literacy Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and (CANFIL) program recently received more than $256,000 in funds from Human Resource Development Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of (HRDC HRDC Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club HRDC Human Resources and Development Canada HRDC Human Resources Development Council (Montana) HRDC Human Resources Development Center HRDC Hollister Ranch Design Committee HRDC Handheld Remote Controlled Device ) to begin bringing information technology training to Northern Ontario. NEOnet in Timmins is heading up the program. "The project entails creating a training network through the CAP (Community Adjustment Program) sites," says Stephane Gallant, information and communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry project manager with NEOnet. "We want to provide online computer and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the training to the CAP site administrators and staff initially." Gallant says the program will, in time, be extended to the public so that anyone at home can go online to obtain the training modules. Gallant says CAP sites, which were set up by the federal government several years ago and are found throughout Northern Ontario communities, are often the first point of contact for many people looking to gain computer skills for new jobs or career advancement. The total cost for the project is over $600,000. Gallant says the program received approval from HRDC's office of learning technologies to move forward once it received the funding. Funding for the project is coming from FedNor, HRDC and some private sector sources. There are also in-kind services being offered by the CAP sites. The first stages include hiring a project co-ordinator and to begin developing the curriculum for the program, which will be accessed by a Web site. There will also be training to CAP site administrators. The effort begins in the next few weeks with training of the CAP co-ordinators beginning in December, Gallant says. |
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