Kuh-Ke-Nah Smart Community Engagement and Planning

Community Engagement Workshops Nov – Jan Deer Lake, North Spirit Lake, Keewaywin, Poplar Hill, Fort Severn

Harnessing new technologies to improve health, education and business development

“ SMART” is about people, not technology People need to plan how to use new technologies to reach their goals Community knows what their goals and values are Why community consultation?

Help communities plan the use of technologies to reach community goals Share information on SMART Share the results of community surveys Provide tools to E-Centre staff Promote “Smart” in the communities What do we do at the workshops?

What do we want to do with the technology?

Planning the workshops

Community Engagement Workshop Team Keewaytinook Okimakanak K-Net e-Centre Managers TeleCommons Development Group KO Communities

Invite the Community

Discuss Workshop Plans with Council

Running the workshops

Expectations of participants

Progress on SMART Project

Provide feedback from Community Surveys

Health Education Economic Development Band administration Workshops Focused on

Presenting the Economic Development Strategy

Creating “spray diagrams” to identify goals

Where are we now? How to get there? How can new Technologies help us? Where do we want to be? (Vision or goal) Where do we want to be? (Vision or goal)

Organize the information into “Rich Pictures”

How do we make sure we stay on track? How do we know if we reach our goals?

Health Education Traditions and Native language Training Jobs and business What to measure in:

Deciding what to measure

Now the picture is complete

Workshops are a good opportunity for training

Recording events so we can tell the story and share with other communities

Celebrate with a Community Feast

We can make it work!