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NCF (National Capital Freenet)
web site: http://www.ncf.ca
Phone: 613 241-0513
The National Capital FreeNet is a computer based information service designed to meet the present information needs of the people and public agencies in the region, and to prepare the community for full and broadly
based participation in rapidly changing communication environments.
The National Capital FreeNet is incorporated as a non-profit community utility.
By dialing into a single number, members of the community have a twenty-four hour connection to information and interaction with any of the participating organizations. The FreeNet also provides other contemporary communication services for information access and exchange. The FreeNet
is an electronic community centre, public square, and information fair.
Rather than each community agency trying to develop and maintain its own expensive, undersubscribed, single-service telecommunication service, each is part of a single, cost effective, sophisticated, multi-line computer
facility. The FreeNet is, then, a shared platform with each organization having a large, dedicated space on the system and autonomously determining how it is used.
The costs associated with building and maintaining this community service are relatively modest. It is confidently expected that these costs will be covered through public and private grants and donations, and the other fund raising methods that have been successful in other communities.
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