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<td>[Firstmile] Fwd: FW: 🥳✅ REGISTER TODAY for 5th Annual
Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) and Pre-Summit
Trainings</td>
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<td>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:59:21 -0600</td>
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<td>Rob McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmcmaho@ualberta.ca"><rdmcmaho@ualberta.ca></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fmcc-directors@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca">fmcc-directors@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:firstmile@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca">firstmile@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca</a></td>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kellee
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Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:22 AM<br>
Subject: FW: 🥳✅ REGISTER TODAY for 5th Annual Indigenous
Connectivity Summit (ICS) and Pre-Summit Trainings<br>
To: Kellee Elkins <<a href="mailto:elkins@isoc.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">elkins@isoc.org</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello
Again! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Warm
greetings to all - I have exciting news:
<a
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Our 5<sup>th</sup> Annual Indigenous Connectivity
Summit (ICS) 2021 Registration is now OPEN!</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The
Pre-Summit Trainings are starting very soon,
<b>7 Sep - 12 Oct 2021, </b>taking place over the
six weeks leading up to<b> </b>
the ICS Summit, <b>12-15 October 2021</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Register
today for both the Pre-Summit Trainings and the
ICS 2021
<a
href="https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldemsqzsiGtIjK5LEJKb4mTyJESkT28IA"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
here</a>.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Due
to the ongoing pandemic, the
<a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2021/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2021 (ICS)</a> will
once again take place online to discuss ways to
ensure Alaska Native, American Indian, Inuit, Native
Hawaiian, First Nations, and Métis communities have
affordable, high-quality, and sustainable Internet
access—and how it can support social and economic
development. The <a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2021/agenda/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
ICS 2021 Agenda</a> is filled to the brim with
exciting sessions. The ICS 2021 will be a
collaborative space to build partnerships, share
powerful examples of Indigenous-led projects, engage
in robust dialogue, enjoy Indigenous artwork, music
and film, and work together to develop the ICS 2021
policy recommendations to support Indigenous
connectivity efforts going forward</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Participants
of ICS 2021 can also join the
<a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2021/trainings/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
Community Networks and/or Policy and Advocacy
Trainings</a> which offer two practical, hands-on
training tracks on how Indigenous communities can
build their own connectivity and how to advocate for
access solutions and digital policy needs in
Indigenous communities across Canada and the United
States. The trainings take place weekly 7 September
- 12 October 2021 leading up to the main ICS , and
will preview the robust, in-depth conversations that
will happen at the summit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Find
out more about ICS 2021 (12- 15 October 2021)
<a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2021/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
here</a> and the ICS Pre-Summit Trainings (7
September - 12 October 2021) <a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2021/trainings/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">REGISTER
today</span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">
for the ICS and Pre-Summit Trainings
<a
href="https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldemsqzsiGtIjK5LEJKb4mTyJESkT28IA"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
here</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind
Regards and hope to see you all online for the ICS
2021 trainings and summit!</span></p>
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of Alberta</div>
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