Canadian Innovations
http://lone-eagles.com/canadian-links.htm

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MAIN SITE
 http://canada.gc.ca

ECOMMERCE

Electronic Commerce Branch of Industry Canada
http://e-com.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inecic-ceac.nsf/en/home

Using  Electronic Commerce (from Strategis)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_x/engdoc/using_ecom.html?guides=e_com

Canada's Business and Consumer Site
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca

Industry Canada Electronic Commerce Branch
http://www.ecom.ic.gc.ca

Canadian E-business Initiative
http://www.cebi.ca/      No longer being updated.

Canadian Ecommerce Sites
http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/bizResources-ebc.php
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inee-ef.nsf/en/Home
http://www.bdc.ca/en/my_project/Projects/ebusiness.htm
http://www.communityfutures.ca/provincial/bc/
http://www.yukonecommerce.com/  Ecommerce Training manuals available online.
http://www.bcchamber.org/

COMMUNITY NETWORKING

Pacific Community Networking Association
http://www.pcna.ca/newsite/
Umbrella network for 21 CAP networks in BC and 1 CAP network in the Yukon. There are 537 CAP sites in BC and 20 in the Yukon.  Annual conference: www.2006summit.ca   Note Shopping Companion affiliate program as revenue source.

Community Access Points program home page
http://cap.ic.gc.ca/index.htm The program plays a crucial role in bridging the digital divide; contributing to the foundation for electronic access to government services; encouraging on-line learning and literacy; fostering the development of community based infrastructure; and, promoting Canadian e-commerce. CAP helps Canadians, wherever they live, take advantage of emerging opportunities in the new global knowledge-based economy.

Here are the websites for some of the CAP Networks and host organizations.
http://www.valleylinks.net/
www.vcn.bc.ca
http://www.sd34.bc.ca/
http://edgewoodcap.ca/cap.html
http://www.bln.ca/ & http://www.sd41.bc.ca/
http://tinyurl.com/bj7pw
http://nanaimo.ark.com/~nanlit/
http://www.fraserinfo.org/index.html
http://www.whitevalley.ca/
http://www.cfdc-pnw.com/
http://www.sea-to-sky.net/s2s/
http://bc.cap-pac.org/sican/
http://www.communityfutures.org/
www.dtes.ca (we have 19 CAP sites in this Vancouver neighbourhood which happens to be one of the poorest in Canada)

Canadian Rural Partnership Team (BC)
 http://www.rural.gc.ca/team/bc/bchome_e.phtml 

The BC Rural Network
www.bcruralnetwork.ca

Upcoming Conference "Strengthening the Links Between Rural Communities"
www.bcruralsummit.ca

The BC Rural Network Planning Forum Report
 http://www.bcruralnetwork.ca/node/41
An excellent compilation of why networking is important and what need to happen next

The BC Rural Network Inventory
http://www.bcruralnetwork.ca/node/46
An outstanding summary of the many ICT advocacy organizations supporting rural British Columbian communities.

BC Rural Community Web Sites Master Listing
http://www.civicnet.bc.ca/siteengine/activepage.asp?PageID=88
Hundreds of rural community web sites.

New Funding Sources Database for BC Communities
http://www.bcruralnetwork.ca/resources/funding-sources-for-british-columbia-communities

BC Civicnet
 http://www.civicnet.bc.ca/siteengine/activepage.asp?bhcp=1 
CivicNet is the official website of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) - an organization that has served and represented the interests of local governments in BC since 1905.

BC3 www.bc3.ca
An ICT training program for rural communities in BC.

BC3 Wiki http://www.bc3.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Telecommunities Canada
www.tc.ca Active since 1995.

Economic Development Association of British Columbia
http://tinyurl.com/dpyf8

Canadian Broadband report
http://broadband.gc.ca/Broadband-document/report_e.asp

Virtual Museums of Canada
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/index_flash.html

Powell River links as sample community web sites::

www.discoverpowellriver.com

http://www.prreds.com/

www.scrn.ca   (CAP Regional CAP Site - currently being updated by our

new CAP Youth who just started).

Community Learning Network
http://www.cln.org
Gateway to a variety of science education themes.
http://www.cln.org/teach_index.html

Philip Carr Publisher, Canada Connects Magazine
JOIN the CANADA CONNECTS ONLINE COMMUNITY
http://www.canadaconnects.ca/
613 731-8330, philip_carr@canadaconnects.ca
Phil Carr created over two hours of presentations using PowerPoint and Audacity and published the result to Flash using a $100 plug in. See: http://www.canadaconnects.ca/dnn3/

Online courses for disabled on entrepreneurship
Online courses for disabled on entrepreneurship www.ibde.ca  www.virtualmall.ca
Virtual Mall stores http://www.virtualmall.ca/webstores/
Canadian Society for Social Development: Internet Business Development for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
kay@ibde.ca PH: 250 825 9433

FIRST NATIONS 

Aboriginal Voice - From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity
http://knet.ca/documents/Aboriginal-Voices-Final-Report-Vol5_Doc_051122.pdf
Released November 2005 - an excellent report on what need to happen for 620 First Nations, the Metis, and Inuit Peoples. Elearning, Ecommerce, Egovernment and Esovereignty. A model for the world's communities.
The home site is www.crossingboundaries.ca/aboriginalvoice 

The First Nations Technology Council's FIT (Fully Integrated Technology) Communities Program for the Ktunaxa Nation project in Cranbrook.  http://www.ktunaxa.org Contact Don Maki dmaki@kkta.bc.ca PH: 250 417 4001   Print their flyer at http://lone-eagles.com/FIT.pdf

First Nations Technology Council
www.fntc.info 
 
First Nations Business Support
www.firstbusiness.ca  $200,000 invested in this site.
Resources for First Nations entrepreneurship.
 
Virtual Aboriginal Trade Show
 http://www.vats.ca
There are 27,135 aboriginal businesses, an increase in 30 % since 1996.
Aboriginal Business Services Network's,  Laara Mixen gave out  CDROM business cards  with a 10 minute video "Open for Business" on Aboriginal Entrepreneurs at the PCNA First Nation's Summit, 2/28/05. The video was produced by www.carletonproductions.com/ab_biz

An OUTSTANDING community website for Old Crow, Yukon.
http://www.oldcrow.ca/  Featuring an Internet radio station, cultural content, satellite images, and more.

Yukon Portal
 http://www.theyukon.ca

Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers based in Edmonton, Alberta.
http://www.edo.ca/  An outstanding program!

Rural, remote and indigenous services
www.entel.ca
 
Ottawa First Nations conference in April
www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca
www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/international.html
 
Indian and Northern Affairs
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/
 
Urban Aboriginal Youth
www.redwaybc.ca
Sponsored by the First Nations Employment Society, exceptionally well done.

Urban Aboriginal Youth Site
www.ayn.ca  Well done.

FirstVoices -Native Language project with extensive resources.
http://www.firstvoices.com/
A world-class model for preserving Native languages.
FirstVoices, out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is an Aboriginal led
initiative run by Aboriginal people, executed by Aboriginal people and
supported by Aboriginal communities. Indigenous digital sovereignty refers to
Indigenous control over our own online institutions. FirstVoices and the First
Peoples' Cultural Foundation have created a large web application which
creates language archives in a rich way using audio MP3s and video (Quicktime
mostly). The loss of language is a huge global problem. It has been estimated
that about 50% of the world's spoken languages will disappear within the next
hundred years. For Aboriginal people here in Canada, there are 17 languages
which are considered "endangered".
Kelvin Wong kelvin@uvic.ca

Aboriginal Ecommerce Success Story
www.tepee.ca   Selling Teepees 

First Nations Development Institute
http://www.firstnations.org

Victoria, BC
http://nativetech.blogspot.com/

Endangered Languages - Linguistic Society of America
http://www.lsadc.org/fields/index.php?aaa=endangeredlgs.htm

Sovereignty - One of five components of the American Indian digital divide
http://www.indiantech.org/

Connecting loss of language with loss of environmental knowledge
http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=6326&SnID=309232344

First Nations Seeker: Directory of North American Indian portal websites

http://www.firstnationsseeker.ca/

RURAL WOMEN SUPPORT NETWORKS

Inuit Women's Network - National Voice of Inuit Women
www.pauktuutit.ca

BC Rural Women's Network Toolkit for Online Safety
www.onlinesafetytoolkit.ca 

Online Activism for Women's Rights and Civic Participation
www.womenspace.ca

Engaging Women to Advance Equality Through Technology
http://womynsvoices.ca

World-Wide List of Agencies against Domestic Violence
http://hotpeachpages.com

Making the Links for Abused Women
http://shelternet.ca
Quebec Aboriginal Women's Site and Shelters Directory

INTERESTING ECOMMERCE SUCCESSES AND MISC. PROJECTS

Alberta's Portal to the Technology Sector - www.infoport.ca

Knowledge Network Video Production Company
www.knowledgenetwork.ca

Giving Youth a Voice with Entrepreneurship/Ecommerce
http://futurecents.com

Juicy Studios
http://juicystudio.com/  digital graphics business success story

RESEARCH

Research network including Michael Gurstein
www.cracin.ca See also http://cijournal.net for Community Informatics Journal

The Microsoft Telecentre Support Network lead by IDRC
 http://telecentre.org
Representing a dozen countries in Central and South America held a telecenters meeting in Asia last year, Africa the year before and Feb. 28^th  at PCNA was the "Americas" meeting. The Launch is scheduled for Nov. 05.
See also www.microsoft.com/unlimitedpotential   http://www.idrc.ca/supportnet   www.idrc.ca/ict4d
 
Telecenters of the Americas Partnership
 www.tele-centers.net  www.tele-centros.org (Spanish)

WSIS/indigenous Dan Hughes Senior Advisor Indian and Northern Affairs Canada 819 956 8218
hugesdl@ainc-inac.gc.ca

World Summit for the Information Society
 www.itu.int/wsis

Indigenous Ottawa event UNPFII www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/news/WSIS/newsottawaevent.htm

High End Readings and Resources