Aski Computers

Technology bringing knowledge to remote lands: live online courses and audio-conferencing, bridging the gap.(NEWS)
Northern Ontario Business; 6/1/2009; 1422 words; ...struggle. Education is a major ongoing challenge for Nishnawbe Aski Nation, said Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose who represents...band offices, she said, explaining Contact North provides computers, live online courses, audio-conferencing technology, training...

Attawapiskat students await a new school.(news)
Windspeaker; 9/1/2008; 1463 words; ...years," said Stan Beardy, the grand chief of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation (NAN). Currently, the school is comprised of small...always have to walk back and forth just to go to gym class, computers and library. We walk probably 100 feet just to go there...

Trillium Foundation, Ontario.(FUNDING)
Community Action; 8/13/2007; 1098 words; ...Blissymbolics Learning Centre, Muskoka. To purchase adaptive computer and audio/video equipment for use in a residential program...volunteers to participate. $50,500 over one year. Nishnawbe Aski Nation. To improve the quality of life in 49 First Nations...

Project Beyshick Comes to Trent University July 13 - 15.
M2 Presswire; 7/16/2007; 881 words; ...University. He has also furnished Trent with several computers for use by Indigenous Studies students. "We...Foundation in close partnership with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) and Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF), specifically for members...

First Nation communities a focus for Lynx North.(SPECIAL REPORT: ABORIGINAL REPORT)
Northern Ontario Business; 3/1/2007; 1132 words; ...First Nations communities in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory throughout Northern Ontario...Communities Award" during the 2003 Nishnawbe Aski Nation Business Awards. While 65 per cent...with the City of Thunder Bay to develop computer modeling for the local sewer system, which...