"This milestone shows that many businesses - new and old - are going online and using OneStop to access important services," said Taylor.
This little rural county in the centre of Alberta's heartland has been long renowned for its natural beauty.
And now it's making waves in the virtual world as well.
"Bringing the world to you," runs a slogan on Wetaskiwin's Web portal – and over the past four years the town's IT team has been beavering away – along with private sector partners – to make this slogan a reality.
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Project Chapleau is designed to evaluate the economic and social benefits of communications technologies on rural communities.
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The region's call center -- dubbed Access Halton -- has been ranked among the top 5% for citizen satisfaction in an independent study by Service Quality Measurement Group Inc. (SQM). The study represents all call centers in Canada and the U.S., said Vernon, British Columbia-based SQM.
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