New: Click here to see multi-site photos of the 2014 engagement event.

Interactive Rooms

February 7, 2014
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Corner Brook, Grand Falls-Windsor, St. John's, NL

The NL Voluntary and Non-Profit Secretariat (Office of Public Engagement) hosted a
2014 Multi-site Community Summit Engagement on February 7, 2014.

Regional groups met simultaneously in Happy Valley/Goose Bay; Grand Falls/Windsor;
Corner Brook, and St. John's.

The 2014 summit sites were joined by Interactive Rooms
(big screen videoconferencing in community television environments).

Link to more information on the summit.

During the CURRA International Symposium: Rebuilding Collapsed Fisheries and
Threatened Communities, October 1 - 4, 2012, Prateep Nayak was able to
participate using Interactive Rooms.

Link to more information and photos from the session.

In May 2012 the Rural Secretariat, the Flat Bay Band Council and Ryakuga
collaborated to interactively and simultaneously join three Provincial
Apprenticeship Forums - in Stephenville, Grand Falls and Labrador City
- of the Department of Advanced Education And Skills.

Click here for photos from the forums.

In January 2012 the Rural Secretariat, the Flat Bay Band Council and Ryakuga
collaborated to interactively join three meetings of the RS Regional Councils
in Corner Brook, Gander and St. John's.

The experiment was to determine how the Rural Secretariat can use community
accessible microtechnologies to decentralize and collapse distances through virtual space.

We used a combination of software videoconferencing; data projectors
and screens; digital video cameras, and wireless microphones.

Photos from the session.

Ryakuga has been experimenting with software video conferencing since 1996.
This communication tool became integral to the virtual office concept during
the Enlarging the Circle project in 2003.

Link to the 2003 guide.



Thanks to Paul, Brandon and Ondreya.



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