Aboriginal Canada Portal – About Us

Welcome to the Aboriginal Canada Portal, your single window to Canadian Aboriginal on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services. The portal offers ease of access and navigation to listings of Aboriginal associations, businesses, organizations, bands, communities, groups, news and peoples. A portal is larger in scope than a site, it is a single window to on-line information and services of common interest. The information in this portal is organized and displayed from a users point of view. The Aboriginal Canada Portal links to the following sites in an organized manner: National Aboriginal Organizations, 12 Federal Government departments with Aboriginal mandates, all Provincial Governments and organizations with Aboriginal responsibilities, as well as all related Aboriginal community information.

The Aboriginal Canada Portal won a bronze medal at the 2001 Industry Distinction Awards of Excellence in the Management of Information and Technology, held as a part of Government in Technology (GTEC) week.

The governing body of the Aboriginal Canada Portal (ACP) is the ACP Working Group whose role it is to oversee the development and maintenance of the Portal. The scope of their responsibility includes:

• Providing advice and guidance on: content, organization, functionality, links, consultation, best practices, communications and future development priorities;
• Bring forward organizations member comments; and
• On a regular basis, provide the ACP web-master with organizational announcements and events.

The goal of the site is to continue to evolve into a virtual forum in which:

• all Aboriginal stakeholders (Aboriginal peoples, organizations and government policy and program developers) may locate, discuss and share information, views, services, successes and issues amongst one another;
• and, act as a central gateway to increase the awareness of Aboriginal Peoples history, heritage, traditions and Aboriginal community successes among Aboriginal Peoples and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

Link to Us

We've made it easy for you to link to the Aboriginal Canada Portal. Just follow the instructions on our Link to Us page.

On-line Survey Report

In keeping with the Aboriginal Canada Portal's goal of remaining client driven, an on-line survey was conducted for the purpose of capturing the following user feedback:

The Aboriginal Canada Portal also utilizes powerful Web analytics to provide insight on Web visitor behaviour, that allows us to make smarter decisions on traffic drivers to make sure that we are providing the users relevant information and an efficient means of navigating the Portal.

The following link will provide you with an up-to-date report of hits and visits to date for the Aboriginal Canada Portal. Visits are the number of user sessions, whereas hits are the number of documents accessed by visitors.

Information on the launch of the Aboriginal Canada Portal in 2001:

Members of the ACP Working Group include the following National Aboriginal Organizations:

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As well as the following Federal Government departments:

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This partnership between Government departments and the Aboriginal community will allow better quality service and information delivery and to the degree possible, ensure that the site continues to evolve with a user-friendly and useful manner. The portal will allow Aboriginal peoples to increase their access to relevant information, programs and services on-line as well as open the door to easier access to information and service delivery.

This project was made possible – in part – through the Canadian Culture Online Program of Canadian Heritage.

The Portal's content, organization and functionality was focus tested among the National Aboriginal Organizations.

For more information contact:

The Aboriginal Canada Portal Team
ACP@inac.gc.ca
1-888-399-0111