What are CAP's goals and specific objectives?
CAP's goal is to fund up to 1,500 rural communities over a 3-year period (1995-1998)

• To provide Canada's rural communities with better and more affordable access to the Information Highway and to raise awareness about its potential for creating jobs and growth
  
• To stimulate the development of new electronic learning tools and services by and for rural communities
  
• To provide Internet training facilities for local entrepreneurs, employees, educators, students and others interested in improving their information management and networking skills
• To stimulate the electronic delivery of government and other services and obtain feedback from citizens about how they would like these presented

What are CAP's benefits to communites?
Helps train local entrepreneurs, educators and others in new information management, networking and other important employable skills

Makes government services and information more accessible through electronic means

Finds and retrieves information on virtually any topic from anywhere in Canada or around the world.

Allows more efficient identification of business, job and promotional opportunities for individuals, businesses and communities

Helps local economic development and job creation through linking communities to the Information Highway