bitsandbytes

This website was developed as a vehicle for enabling collaboration in fostering ever-greater community food security. It is also intended as a “one-stop shop” for identifying and accessing resources to support our work. All those who work on any aspect of food security and sovereignty are invited to register on the site and contribute to the website and food security database by sharing your resources - in any format that can be hosted on the internet. If you are already registered and need help uploading resources, please download this Guide.

Food Secure Canada now maintains this website. It was originally developed through the Bits & Bytes Project (coordinated by Abra Brynne, who is also the Communications Co-ordinator of the BC Food Systems Network). The Building Community Food Security with Bits & Bytes Project was launched 1 March 2008 and ran until 31 March 2009 with funding from the Social Development Partnerships Program of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. The overall goal of the Project was to create an effective model for ¨mentoring from a distance¨. The Project identified innovative and effective practices in community food security and captured them using various media, so that they can be easily disseminated, adapted and implemented.

The objectives of the Project included the following:

• To share innovations in food security with communities throughout Canada, through partnership with Food Secure Canada;
• To enhance collaboration among rural and remote, community-based food security organizations, technical and practical experts, government agencies, and national organizations;
• To adapt private-sector innovations in communications technology to the community not-for-profit sector.