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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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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:59:21 -0600</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <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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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded
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              From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kellee
                Elkins</b> <span dir="auto"><<a
                  href="mailto:elkins@isoc.org" moz-do-not-send="true">elkins@isoc.org</a>></span><br>
              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:
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href="https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldemsqzsiGtIjK5LEJKb4mTyJESkT28IA"
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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/"
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                      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>
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                <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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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind
                      Light";color:black">Kellee Elkins</span></b></p>
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                  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind
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                    Engagement</span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind
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                    Caribbean</span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind
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                      href="mailto:elkins@isoc.org" target="_blank"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#044a91">elkins@isoc.org</span></a><span
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                    Pronouns: she/her/hers</span></p>
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                                        style="font-size:11px"> ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ
                                        (Amiskwacîwâskahikan)</span></font><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"> on
                                      Treaty 6 territory, traditional
                                      lands of First Nations and</span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"> Métis
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