Lennox Island – Prince Edward Island Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 12:57 PM Students in Lennox Island produced two excellent First Mile videos about connectivity in their communities! Click to watch Dial-up Blues Click to watch First Messaging Find out more Videos produced through the Atlantic Canada First Nations Help Desk
Standoff – Alberta Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 04:50 PM By Rick Tailfeathers Since the development of high speed internet on the Blood reserve in 2007 and the installation of the Supernet, a Province of Alberta initiative to get all Albertans plugged in, with movement toward internet access to homes has been difficult, until now. Recent[…]
Deer Lake – Ontario Friday, 18 November 2011, 03:22 PM ELDER reboot in Deer Lake By Austin Lee About a week and a half after I was introduced to the ELDER project, I had the opportunity to go up to Deer Lake on November 2nd 2011 to introduce the ELDER project to the school there.[…]
New Beat Nation Video on YouTube – street art in Vancouver Vancouver – British Columbia Thursday, 17 November 2011, 12:18 PM Watch a new video of street art by Corey Bulpitt and Larissa Healey (aka gurl23) on the Beat Nation TV site. This mural is at the Granville St Bridge in Vancouver, painted in June[…]
Monday, 14 November 2011, 01:29 PM First Nation Youth stake out their role in Canada’s recent federal election The name “Project 60” highlights that it was not until 1960 that First Nation people won the right to vote in Canadian federal elections. The videos featured in Project 60 are made by Native Youth, the nation’s[…]
Membertou – Nova Scotia Monday, 14 November 2011, 01:02 PM Join Caroline Marshall from Membertou for a video tour of the Membertou Data Centre, located in the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre in Nova Scotia. The video highlights the importance of connectivity in First Nations communities. Learn more about Membertou and other Atlantic Canada First[…]
ELDER Project: More than just a Computer Project, A Doorway to Social Change – Ontario Monday, 14 November 2011, 02:43 PM More than just a Computer Project: A Doorway to Social Change By Michael Mak Children are avid and skilled explorers of technology – they amaze everyone what they know or what they can[…]
Keewaytinook Mobile Sioux Lookout – Ontario Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 11:02 AM Keewaytinook Mobile (KM) is the new First Nation-owned telecom group delivering GSM cellular and data services in remote and rural communities across northern Ontario. The KM consortium is working in partnership with Keewaytinook Okimakanak’s Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) and other partners to develop this[…]
Kanhiote Public Library Tyendinaga – Ontario Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 11:25 AM By Kevin Maracle, First Nations Technical Institute, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory The Kanhiote Library was connected to the Internet via a full time dialup line in 1999 as part of First Nation Technical Institute (FNTI) CAP project funding. At the time FNTI had two[…]
Keewaytinook Internet High School One innovative program in northern Ontario enables local First Nations students to stay in their home communities while attending high school. Keewaytinook Internet High School, or KiHS, uses ICTs to support community-based learning in classrooms across the northern part of the province. View a recent (October 2011) about KiHS: VIDEO[…]