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The Essential Services Policy Network: Organizational Influence in Canada's Information Highway Policy Development Process.
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Dorner, Daniel G. – Library Quarterly, 2002
Explores organizational influence in the policy network that formed around the issue of determining essential services on the Canadian information highway. Qualitative content analysis found the essential services issue had two main aspects: ensuring universal access to telecommunications networks and determining the criteria for defining…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
E-Democracy and E-Government: How Will These Affect Libraries?
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Pare, Richard – 2002
In the late 1980s, when few Canadian citizens had Internet access, federal departments and agencies in Canada were already preparing for the future by putting information and documentation online. This paper outlines several government-sponsored programs--SchoolNet, the Canadian Investment Fund, Community Access Program, Canada Foundation for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Apprendre en reseau: Une option pedagogique incontournable a l'aube du nouveau millenaire (Learning with Online Networks: An Unavoidable Educational Option at the Dawn of the New Millenium).
Laferriere, Therese – Education Canada, 1999
Discusses various initiatives in Canadian schools and universities that involve new ways of learning with technology. Teachers today can and should use new technologies, such as online services, to transform their teaching methods and create the desire in young people to be lifelong learners. (Author/CDS)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
Transition to Electronic Access of Government Information: Are the Depository Libraries Prepared?
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Vaughan, Liwen Qiu; Dolan, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1998
Examines the readiness of depository libraries in Canada to adopt new technologies for disseminating government publications. Findings are reported on current use of different publication formats, type of help sought by users, staff skills and training needs, adequacy of physical and financial resources, support from governing bodies, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Depository Libraries, Electronic Journals