Philanthropist offers 10-point plan to help community networks By Bruce MacDonald Realtime Online OTTAWA (1054 hr, Aug. 16/94) - The Virginia-based Morino Institute presented the Canadian Community Networks Conference with a 10-point plan outlining its efforts to develop the potential of electronic communications. Founded by retired telecommunications executive, Mario M. Morino, the institute works to help "individuals and communities work toward social change through the power of information and the potential of electronic communications." Institute representative Kaye Gapen outlined the institute's plan for 1994: --Enhance awareness of the positive and negative potential of electronic communications, and help people understand the implications for their daily lives; --Sponsor studies to understand the information and electronic communications needs of communities, how communities are using these technologies now, and how they are being affected by them; --Create effective training programs that can be used by communities to help their members develop electronic communications and information literacy; --Educate people in knowledge management techniques and encourage information providers to deliver their product within a context that makes it more usable and understandable to others; --Train people in the techniques of collaboration as a method for solving community problems; --Develop models for community-based programs that make fair and reasonable access to information and electronic communications available to all segments of our society, particularly the disadvantaged, the struggling middle class and the disabled. To attain those goals, the institute offers the following programs: --Education and Communications Programs; --Collaborative Pilot and Research Programs; --Community Service Fellowship Program; --Community Works Program. The institute's e-mail address is info@morino.org -- Realtime Online - Professional Conference Reporting Team Rosaleen Dickson, Ottawa ac174@freenet.carleton.ca. Pierre Bourque, Michel Careau, Shady Kanfi, Charles King, Andrea Kujala, Jules Lafrance, Bruce MacDonald, Robt Rattey, Natalie Roth, Michael Silvestrini, Stephen Toy.