Educational Computing Network of Ontario into the 21st Century

Welcome to the home of ECNO, the Educational Computing Network of Ontario.
 
ECNO is a non-profit information technology cooperative incorporated to promote best practices and provide cost-effective IT solutions to its members. ECNO membership includes over 62 of the 72 school boards in the province of Ontario. To those members ECNO provides an array of IT products and services, a forum for information sharing and networking, a mechanism for collective negotiations and purchasing, and a unified voice for inter-governmental communications.
 
For almost two decades, the ECNO educational technology cooperative has helped school boards save millions of dollars. Now, as the business of education evolves into the new millennium, ECNO emerges as the solution of choice for Ontario’s district school boards. ECNO offers new and innovative strategies to help reduce the cost of administration and to allow boards to redirect those resources into the classroom.
 

ECNO Vision & Role
ECNO's role is to provide, for its members, leadership and direction for the use of information technology in all areas of education affecting boards, schools and classrooms, and to ensure the availability of the most cost-effective information technology services and products for its members.
Specifically, ECNO intends to:

• Provide leadership in setting directions for educational IT
• Be the supplier or enabler of the most cost effective educational IT services and solutions for its members
• Be a cooperative to facilitate ?pooling and sharing of resources and to provide negotiating leverage to enable all members to access the most appropriate services and solutions
• Be the point of liaison and coordination with other stakeholders in educational IT
• Provide balanced advice and facilitation for its members to help them make IT decisions
• Address all areas of educational IT
• Ensure the availability of systems which comply with data standards to increase sharing and exchange of information among stakeholders
• Encourage the adoption of open technology standards
• Become a clearinghouse for solutions developed by its members and other stakeholders
• Continue to encourage and seek out innovative solutions through research and development activities and new partnerships
• Obtain funding from 3 sources: revenues, member contributions and government funding
• Meet the needs of our primary customers, defined to be:

  • Boards, Schools, and the Ontario Government
    and, through them, the needs of their customers:
  • Students, Parents, Communities, Teachers, Principals, Managers, and Classrooms