Our favourite links for Business Start Up, Export Import, Directories of Companies, Market information, Selling to Government and BC's communities. Interactive Business Planner A step by step business planning tool. Prepare your own professional plan on line, then down load it to your computer. It is a partnership program involving the provincial government, youth, high tech firms, public libraries, schools and other members of the community. The provincial government provides conditional grants to public libraries and community schools across the province to enable them to hire youth as community internet trainers for the summer.
Youth receive intensive training - covering both internet skills and training skills.
They then return to their communities and work with the sponsoring library or school, corporate mentors and the community to help local youth learn internet skills and to develop web sites of interest to young people. Sponsoring libraries and community schools are responsible for selecting internet trainees. Connecting Canadians Connecting Canadians is the federal government's vision and plan to make Canada the most connected country in the world. In an increasingly competitive and knowledge-based global economy, Canada can benefit by becoming a world leader in the development and use of advanced information and communications technologies. The association of British Columbia Community Networks operates as a non-profit society formed to support the development of community computer networks in British Columbia.