Women’s Employment Information Centre - Status of Women Council of the NWT
A pilot Information Centre to expand northern women’s participation in the minerals and oil and gas sectors (training, employment or businesses to serve the industry.) In addition to outreach activities with women to create awareness of opportunities, the Centre will work with industry and government to develop strategies and programs to address barriers and increase participation.

Engagement of First Nations Women in Benefit Arrangements Related to Resource Development - Native Women’s Association of the NWT
Building women’s capacity to advance their interests through impact benefits agreements by researching best practices and barriers, and holding a strategic planning and mentoring training workshop, followed by regional workshops to train and engage women in policy change.

Accessing of Investment Dollars: Financing Options and Opportunities - NWT Chamber of Commerce
Promoting information exchange between northern businesses seeking investment dollars and financial institutions through: an investment marketplace, a roundtable, an investment handbook, data bases of investors and investment seekers, and a promotional campaign.

Dynamic Display of Research Information and Online Licensing Process - Aurora Research Institute (Aurora College)
The main focus is digitizing data related to the scientific licensing process (71% of which reflects oil and gas-related activities) and 1985-2001 research data, producing a CD ROM, and enhancing web delivery to allow dynamic data driven and graphic (maps and graphs) views of data.

Alternative Energy Designs in Construction: Feasibility - NWT Metis Nation
Related to construction of a multi-purpose building: a feasibility study will look at options and design considerations for environmental sustainability. After selection and construction, the demonstrated design and construction techniques and technologies will be marketed.

E-Training & Tracking System: Water Laboratory Technicians - Aboriginal Engineering Ltd. (Taiga Lab)
Development of a computer-based interactive self-study system will increase hiring of Northerners, which has been limited by the availability of skilled staff to carry out the training.

Petrogenesis of Rocks: Southern Wopmay Orogen Area, NWT - University of B.C. and Memorial University
Supports technical work related to a study which will improve understanding of key factors in generations of certain ore deposits. NWT Geoscience Centre is a funding partner. Products will be a geochronology report, the layering of an interim geology map and a digital map.

Age Analysis of Gold Mineralization at Con & Giant Mines - University of Alberta
Analysis by a specialist in dating of rocks and mineralization deposits will benefit understanding of other gold deposits in Slave Province.

Geochemical Surveys - Government of the NWT
Re-examination of approximately 5200 historical lake sedimentary samples, which were collected by Natural Resources Canada, and analyzed for base-metal potential, during the 1970s. Analysis of this material for gold, platinum, and other elements is very cost-effective research.

Spatial Digitization: Optical Character Recognition - Government of the NWT
Builds on past digitization projects by generating a spatial (map) database of bulk chemistry of till samples, based on information contained in files. This tool is potentially useful for diamond exploration, as well as exploration for metals.

Gameti Community Mapping - Gameti First Nation
The community is partnering with the NWT Geoscience Centre to map local geological information as well as provide training to a local person in geological fieldwork.

INAC also supported the final stage of a project begun in 2003-2004 by Chinook Aerospace (Thermal Energy Conversion).

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Backgrounder - NWT 2003-2004 Innovation and Knowledge Projects

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