Concerns expressed over Telecommunities Canada's role By Charles King Realtime Online Ottawa, 1400 hr, Aug 16, '94. Delegates to the Canadian Community Networks Conference expressed a wide variety of concerns today about the role Telecommunities Canada will play in representing local FreeNet associations. A working group composed of delegates from six provinces raised questions about how the new umbrella organization will be funded, how broadly it will represent regional groups across the country, and how it will function in lobbying government and industry for financial support. Committee members called for a co-ordination of fundraising at the national level and the drafting of a mission statement setting out the new organization's aims and objectives. The governing board should be widely representative both geographically and linguistically, and balanced in a gender sense as well, delegates said. In further recognition of the country's geographical differences, they suggested that Telecommunities Canada should meet next year in British Columbia, and in following years in other provincial capitals and university centres. -- 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.