Digital Basin Quick Start
National Conference
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), according to its Three-Year Plan 2017-2020, will review the Native Broadcasting Policy (CRTC 1990-89) next year. The gatherings entitled “The Future of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Broadcasting” aim to bring practitioners, policy makers and academics together as allies to prepare a context for respectful and meaningful consultation. The idea is to create or identify the terms of reference for the CRTC deliberations to ensure that any policy changes support the development goals that Indigenous media activists, broadcasters, and community members themselves identify. This gathering seeks to share decision making power with the people, and to assert Indigenous rights to media democracy ‘for as long as the waters flow’.
Discussion Topics: The CRTC Process & CRTC Policy
- How would you like the CRTC consultation process to be conducted?
- How should the review process itself be changed?
- What should the policy entail?
- What are the elements to include or exclude?
- What changes would be required to the Broadcasting Act to ensure the policy is upheld?
Participate in Conversations & Convergence February to May, 2017.
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This interactive one, day workshop, co-facilitated by the University of Guelph’s Libro Professor of Regional Economic Development and Selkirk College’s Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development, will explore regional economic development models and best practice approaches in the context of the new rural paradigm, place-based development, and cluster-focused development. Attendees will learn about models from across Canada and beyond and will then engage in facilitated discussions on how best practice approaches can be applied in the Basin-Boundary region. Elected officials are invited to attend. Please register early as registration is limited.
To register visit selkirk.ca/economicworkshop
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This one-day regional Workforce Development Learning Summit will highlight workforce innovations and discuss challenges. Expert speakers and innovators will explore the concepts of clusters, technology and innovation as they relate to building a 21st Century workforce. Attendees will then work together to help build evidence-based regional cluster-focused strategies specific to technology, tourism, forestry, mining and metals, and advanced manufacturing. Industry, business, education, economic development, local government, and business and employment support providers are invited to attend.
Please register early as registration is limited.
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This interactive one-day workshop will explore regional economic development models and best practice approaches in the context of the new rural paradigm, place-based development, and cluster-focused development. Attendees will learn from experts from across Canada and will then engage in facilitated discussions on how best practice approaches can be applied in the Basin-Boundary region. Economic development practitioners and community planners are invited to attend. Please register early as registration is limited.
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The fourteenth International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS) Summer Institute will convene for thirteen days and will involve approximately 30 graduate students and numerous faculty members from universities around the world. Sessions will be supplemented with field trips, group work, and student presentations.
The ICRPS Summer Institute provides a unique opportunity for students to meet and work together on comparative rural policy issues and make invaluable research and networking contacts. The expertise of the faculty involved in ICRPS span across the disciplines of anthropology, business, economics, environmental studies, geography, indigenous studies, planning, policy studies, political science, and sociology.
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