Jun 06, 2007 14:15 ET

Canada's New Government Ensures Support for the Community Access Program

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 6, 2007) - The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry, today announced that Canada's New Government will extend its support of the Community Access Program (CAP) by providing funding for 2007-08.

CAP is also complemented by the Community Access Program Youth Initiative (CAPYI), which provides employment opportunities each year to more than 1500 young Canadians between the ages of 15 to 30 at various CAP sites across the country.

In 2005-06, an estimated 15 million visitors made use of CAP sites, with eight million repeat users.  

CAP sites contribute to community economic development by providing information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, developing ICT skills among community members, improving social capital through the many partnerships needed to keep the sites functioning, and helping small businesses to use the Internet. CAP sites are also used for e-literacy training and to access formal and informal education over the Internet.

Full article can be found at: http://new.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=739636