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QCGN Launches new community development website

Montreal, Monday, September 21, 2009 – A new collaborative website, launched by the Quebec Community Groups Network, is designed to become an indispensable, internet-based tool for community organizers and institutions in English-speaking Quebec.“QUESCAN – the Quebec English-speaking Community Action Network, located at www.quescan.info - will be the place where individuals, community groups, government and university partners learn about and contribute to the vitality of English-speaking Quebec,” commented Robert Donnelly, President of the Quebec Community Groups Network which launched the new site at its annual convention in Gatineau on September 11th.Robert Donnelly said QUESCAN (pronounced Q-SCAN) aims to support the development of key institutions and networks and to encourage and nurture political understanding and support for English-speaking communities and their institutions.  The website also aims to increase awareness of existing resources available to English-speaking Quebec and to encourage inter-community and inter-institutional collaboration. Thanks to a collaborative community effort already in progress, Donnelly is convinced that QUESCAN will become an indispensible and convenient resource for community action that will support and enhance the vitality of English-speaking Quebec – the main mission of Quebec Community Groups Network which brings together 32 Quebec-based organizations from various sectors and regions. The QUESCAN website was designed using the dynamic, community-based Wikipedia, or Wiki, model.  The Wiki is flexible and expandable and designed to grow and evolve through community contributions.  It also uses social media tools to build, engage and strengthen the wider English-speaking community of Quebec. Go check it out and take part in a new way of collaborating to enhancing the vitality and comprehension of your community! To read the press release, click here.

 

Published Sep 23 2009, 10:28 AM by Roseline Joyal

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