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Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Atlin getting high-speed internet
July 23, 2024 ATLIN – Taku River Tlingit First Nation and Atlin community members are one step closer to high-speed internet access with the construction of new connectivity infrastructure. “This project is years in the making and is the result of community, government and business coming together with creative connectivity solutions,” said Nathan Cullen, MLA […]
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Fostering Change: How Corporate Allies Support Indigenous Digital Equity
July 22, 2024 We are thrilled to highlight the incredible efforts of one of our corporate partners, Microsoft, which has demonstrated significant support in co-creating bright digital futures for First Nations communities by enabling digital equity and transformation. During our 2023 Season of Giving campaign to raise funds for the Digital Skills Bursary Fund, Microsoft […]
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CRTC takes action to bring fibre Internet to five Inuit communities in northern Quebec
July 22, 2024 – Ottawa-Gatineau – Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Today, the CRTC is taking action to bring high-speed fibre Internet to five Inuit communities in northern Quebec, all of which are official language minority communities. This project will build on past Broadband Fund projects in the Nunavik region and ensure that all […]
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Cambridge company refurbishes electronics for Indigenous-run businesses and schools – CambridgeToday.ca
Partnership with Makhos to bridge the gap between industry and Indigenous communities Greentec, a Cambridge based IT Asset Disposal Company, has joined forces with Makhos Solutions Inc. to bridge the gap between industry and Indigenous communities by providing refurbished electronics to Indigenous-run businesses and schools across Ontario. In addition to filling technology gaps by supplying […]
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AI presents opportunities and challenges to Indigenous collaborators trying to retain languages – The Globe and Mail
The Lauwelnew Tribal School and what is now known as FirstVoices joined forces more than 20 years ago to bring ethical Indigenous language tools online. Almost all First Nations languages in B.C. are currently endangered. Dr. Patrick Littell, associate research officer at the federal government’s Digital Technologies Research Centre, whose work revolves around Indigenous language […]
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Nonprofit tech workers earn 33 per cent less than tech workers in other industries
TORONTO, July 16, 2024 – New research on the tech workforce in Canada’s nonprofit sector shows there is a significant gap in the skill sets needed for workers to succeed in an increasingly digital world. Our research shows that significant pay disparities exist in this sector and is likely a major contributor to the tech […]
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kama.ai Delivers Release 3 of its Responsible Agentic AI Platform
Coincident with opening day of Collision 24 in Toronto, kama.ai announced Release 3 of our Designed Experiential Intelligence®. Large Language Models have provided fantastic tools and ‘virtual co-workers’ where the task is to assist human workers to gather, summarize, or otherwise draft information for human review or completion. However, the goal of virtual employees that can […]
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Minister of CGS celebrates $272 million investment opportunity for high-speed fibre optic communications in Nunavut
Iqaluit, Nunavut (July 12, 2024) – Today, Community and Government Services (CGS) Minister David Joanasie expressed enthusiasm regarding the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Broadband Fund’s decision to approve the Government of Nunavut’s (GN) application. This telecommunications funding opportunity is unique in that the fund is exclusively dedicated to improving internet connectivity in underserved […]
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Nunavut communities say CRTC money for fibre internet is good news, but question how it will work – CBC
Jul 12, 2024 Government still has to prove to telecommunications body that they can provide fibre internet Kinngait Mayor Jimmy Manning says it’s good news that fibre internet might be coming to his community, but when the government of Nunavut held a public consultation three years ago about bringing fibre internet to the hamlet, there […]
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CRTC takes action to bring fibre Internet to four Inuit communities in Nunavut for the first time
From: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission July 4, 2024 Today, the CRTC is taking action to bring high-speed fibre Internet to four remote Inuit communities in Nunavut, including one official language minority community. This is the first time these communities will have access to fibre Internet. Through its Broadband Fund, the CRTC is committing $271.9 […]
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