Five tracks. One outcome: a community member with the digital readiness — and often the launched business — to thrive in modern Canada.
Community-ledA program co-designed with rural and remote communities across BC — combining digital fluency, AI literacy, and tourism-business launch, delivered in-community and hybrid so distance from the country's tech hubs is never the barrier.
Returners welcomeFor women returning to work after caregiving, newcomer women rebuilding careers in Canada, and women launching tourism, services, and online businesses. Always cohort-based, always with a one-on-one mentor.
Ages 15–29Coding, AI fluency, and business basics for Canadian youth — anchored by a tourism micro-venture project where each youth turns their community's stories into a real, online-ready offering visitors can book.
55+ · NHSP-alignedOnline banking, health portals, family video calls, fraud-and-scam safety, and a gentle introduction to AI assistants — at a pace that respects experience. Built to align with the federal New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP): cohorts are co-designed with seniors, and many graduates go on to volunteer-mentor youth and newcomer cohorts.
Our Senior Digital Fluency track is designed to line up with the federal New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP). Every cohort we run maps to NHSP objectives, so partner organizations can co-build proposals and co-deliver with confidence.
Small-group training in online banking, health portals, and AI assistants — directly addressing social isolation through digital literacy, an NHSP national priority.
Hands-on workshops on phishing, grant and romance scams, and financial-abuse awareness — mapped to NHSP's objective of expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse.
Graduates become volunteer mentors for youth and newcomer cohorts — fulfilling NHSP's goal of engaging seniors through mentoring across generations.
Cohorts are co-designed and co-led by senior participants — promoting volunteerism and social participation, the heart of every NHSP-funded project.
We help seniors access government benefits and services online and file taxes digitally — an NHSP community priority for reaching vulnerable seniors.
Loaner tablets, accessible devices, and community-centre setup — aligned with NHSP capital assistance for new and existing seniors programs.
The New Horizons for Seniors Program is administered by Employment and Social Development Canada. SpaceBeacon Foundation structures its seniors programming to align with NHSP objectives and national priorities; alignment reflects program design, not endorsement.
Every program offers a tourism micro-venture pathway. Local knowledge, packaged into a registered, online-ready business that welcomes the world — in four guided steps.
Workshops to articulate the story, identify the audience, shape the product.
BC business registration, tourism permits, tax basics, rural & regional considerations.
Website, listings, payments, AI booking management in 120+ languages.
90-day mentorship to confidently welcome international and BC visitor flows.
Two short films from inside the work — the people, the rooms, the moment a participant realizes the technology is theirs to use. Cohorts you can fund, refer to, or co-deliver.
Canadian Story
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Watch how women, youth, and seniors move from "I'm not a tech person" to publishing their first portfolio piece, listing their first booking, and helping the next learner in the cohort do the same.
Canadian Story
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The Tourism track in motion — rural and regional Canadian operators using SpaceBeacon's voice and AI infrastructure to take bookings in 120+ languages, ready to welcome visitors from around the world.
Tell us a little about who you are and which track fits — we'll match you to the next cohort in your region. All programs are free, and we work to remove barriers like childcare, language, and transportation.
Rural community organizations, schools, employers, settlement agencies, libraries, seniors centres — if you serve a community we want to reach, we'd love to bring a cohort to you. We bring curriculum, mentors, and platform; you bring community.