[Advisors] enviro scan -- please fill in the gaps

Sat Jan 9 19:33:50 PST 2016

Marita … Michael is correct that there are numerous community-owned networks
across the country for lots of different reasons. We have a partial list of
regional intermediary First Nation technology support organizations from
across Canada (I am sure there are others to be found working in different
sectors – health, education, governance/political, justice, etc) … here is
that list that we pulled together so far .…

Some regional Indigenous intermediary technology organizations:

Region

Organization

URL

B.C.

First Nations Technology Council

 <http://www.technologycouncil.ca/> http://www.technologycouncil.ca/ 

B.C.

All Nations Trust Company 

http://www.pathwaystotechnology.ca/ 

Alberta

(First Nations) Technical Services Advisory Group

 <http://www.tsag.net/> http://www.tsag.net/ 

Saskatchewan

Keewatin Career Development Corporation

 <http://www.kcdc.ca/> http://www.kcdc.ca/ 

Manitoba

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

 <http://www.manitobachiefs.com/> http://www.manitobachiefs.com/ 

Manitoba

Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. (MKO)

 <http://www.mkonorth.com/> http://www.mkonorth.com/ 

Manitoba

Broadband Communications North

 <http://www.gobcn.ca/> http://www.gobcn.ca/ 

Ontario

K-Net Services

 <http://knet.ca/> http://knet.ca/ 

Ontario

Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network (NICSN)

http://smart.knet.ca/satellite/ 

Ontario

Western James Bay Telecom Network

http://wjbtn.com/ 

Quebec

First Nations Education Council

 <http://www.cepn-fnec.com/> http://www.cepn-fnec.com/ 

Quebec (Nunavik)

Tamaani Internet Services

 <http://tamaani.ca/> http://tamaani.ca/ 

Quebec (Eeyou Istchee)

Eeyou Communication Network

 <http://www.eeyou.ca/en/home> http://www.eeyou.ca/en/home 

Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada First Nations Help Desk

 <http://firstnationhelp.com/> http://firstnationhelp.com/ 

Yukon

Council of Yukon First Nations

 <http://cyfn.ca/> http://cyfn.ca/ 

Nunavut

Nunavut Broadband Development Corporation

 <http://www.nunavut-broadband.ca> www.nunavut-broadband.ca 

Woliwon

Brian Beaton

Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project

Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of
New Brunswick

Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute

Settler ally of Indigenous peoples and future generations

Contact Details:

Snail Mail: Box 104, Station A, Unceded Wolastoqey Traditional Lands,
Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y2

T: 506-261-1344

E:  <mailto:brian.beaton at unb.ca> brian.beaton at unb.ca  

 <http://firstmile.ca/> http://firstmile.ca 

From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com] 
Sent: January-09-16 7:31 PM
To: 'Marita Moll'; 'TC Advisors'
Cc: 'Brian Beaton'; normleech at yahoo.com; Norm.Leech at fntc.info
Subject: RE: [Advisors] enviro scan -- please fill in the gaps

Marita,

I’m not exactly sure how they would be classified (my guess is as
Band/municipally owned) but my guess is that there are almost certainly as
many First Nations sites scattered on reserves across the country as are
listed below.

I’ll copy this to Brian Beaton and Norm Leech who will know this much much
better than I.

M

From: advisors-bounces at tc.ca [mailto:advisors-bounces at tc.ca] On Behalf Of
Marita Moll
Sent: January 9, 2016 1:19 PM
To: TC Advisors <advisors at tc.ca>
Subject: [Advisors] enviro scan -- please fill in the gaps

Here is a preliminary environmental scan of provincial public access
organizations/member-owned Internet service providers and
municipal/community- owned broadband/ wi-fi sites that I know about.  It
will help us in any potential activity to be able to point to an active
community.  

updated: Jan. 9, 2016

Provincial organizations:

British Columbia
Pacific Community Networking Association (PCNA)
contact: Bev Collins
bev at pcna.ca

Nova Scotia
NS C at P
contact: 

Manitoba
Man. E-Learning
contact: Clarice Leader
cleader at mb.e-association.ca

Nunavut
N-Cap
contact: Darlene Thompson
thompson.darlene at gmail.com

Member-owned Internet service providers

Chebucto Community Net (Halifax)
https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/

National Capital Freenet (Ottawa)
https://www.ncf.ca/ 

Calgary Community Net
http://calcna.ab.ca/

Lethbridge Community Net
http://lethbridgecommunitynetwork.com/

Vancouver Community Network
http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/

Peace River Internet Society (PRIS)
http://portal.pris.ca/

Victoria Freenet Association
http://victoria.tc.ca/ 

Individual public access sites: 

In many provinces, existing public access sites were part of community
resource centres, libraries, immigrant centres,‎ recreational centres, youth
drop in centres, day care centres, seniors centres etc. prior to adding CAP
to their service delivery options and since the dissolution of CAP continue
to do so. 

B.C.:

Alberta:
60 public access computers in ? sites operated by Lethbridge Community
Network

Saskatchewan: ?

Manitoba: 
0 stand alone sites

Ontario

Quebec:
 50 sites operated by Communautique (Montreal)

New Brunswick

Nova Scotia

PEI

Newfoundland

Nunavut

N.W.T.

Yukon

Municipal/community-owned broadband/wi-fi sites

B.C.
Coquitlam
Q-net
leases excess fibre to anyone resulting in local residents being offered
unlimited Internet plans for $20/month
http://www.qnetbc.net/

Alberta:
Olds
O-Net
municipal Internet utility offering 8,600 residents 1 Gbps Internet --
symmetrical (upload and download) & unlimited (no data caps)
http://o-net.ca/

Ontario:
K-Net
First Nations owned and operated
Sioux Lookout
http://knet.ca/

Quebec:
Montreal
île sans fils
a non-profit community wireless network that provides wireless Internet
access to mobile users in public spaces throughout Montreal
http://www.ilesansfil.org/

Quebec city:
Zap Québec
free wi-fi hotspots through the city
http://www.zapquebec.org/english/

New Brunswick
Fredericton
Fred-eZone (city-wide municipal wi-fi)
http://www.fred-ezone.ca/

Moncton (city-wide municipal wi-fi)

Prince Edward Island 

Newfoundland

Nunavut

N.W.T.

Yukon

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