Slate Falls First Nation – Ontario Monday, 30 January 2012, 11:52 AM By Wes Angees, Band Technician, Slate Falls First Nation, Ontario, with Rob McMahon Wes Angees won’t be out of a job any time soon. That’s because he’s the band technician for Slate Falls. He keeps the local phones running, connects people to the[…]
DiabeTEXTS: Innovative Diabetes Community Management Keewaytinook Okimakanak Communities – Ontario Monday, 2 January 2012, 12:44 PM By Michael Mak Living with diabetes makes great educational demands on a family. The support and involvement of children and parents alike plays a central role in the management of the disease. The availability of mobile phones is increasingly[…]
View from the bridge: Videoconferencing Sioux Lookout – Ontario Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 11:36 AM By Lyle Johnson, videoconferencing bridge coordinator, K-Net, Keewaytinook Okimakanak This story is adapted from a VideoCom research paper (#50) about Videoconferencing for First Nations Community-Controlled Education, Health and Development. The full paper has been accepted for publication in the Electronic[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
Fort Severn – Ontario Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 12:36 AM Visit the Fort Severn First Nation Technology Showcase to learn the history of communications in that community: both before and after the Internet became available. Fort Severn First Nation operates a community-based local broadband infrastructure and connectivity model that highlights some of the challenges in[…]
Northern Quebec – Manitoba Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 12:39 AM The Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network (NICSN) is an example of a jointly managed, inter-provincial partnership between First Nations and Inuit communities in northern Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. Despite the very different contexts of these organizations, in one key informant’s words, through NICSN, “we are[…]