E-Association - Nunavut

The Road We Travelled – Our Communities’ Voyage to the Future on the ICT Highway

This is a collection of best practices gathered from across Canada of how rural, remote and Aboriginal communities have overcome the digital divide to achieve success in increasing the mastery of technology and application of technical skills to create real benefits for the communities and their members.

Cambridge Bay Community Insight Project: Teaching the Skills of Local Heritage Documentation

This community documentary initiative taught residents the skills of video editing, audio recording and filmmaking to capture community cultural skills and stories about the past.

Renee Krucas (Executive Director) or Brendan Griebel (Cultural Program Development)

The E-Commerce Yukon Project: A Community based Business Advisory Service with a Focus on E-Commerce

This community e-commerce project provided supported learning through a one-on-one hands-on approach to leveraging ICT to build awareness and use of e-commerce tools, and to reach larger markets.

This community project minted 250 Limited Edition C@P Geocoins, locations tracked by geolocation technologies and geocaching activities around the world, building on the idea that things on the internet correspond to things on the Earth.

This community based health research project, used the methodology of PhotoVoice to teach community members how to capture images of their everyday life experiences using a camera, then tell the story behind the images from their perspective, conveying a community perspective on research issues.

This First Nation social media online project, built on the broadband infrastructure developments, to offer an opportunity for people living in remote communities to connect with each other and engage in everyday communication through a system of personal homepages.

Video Conferencing: Uses and Issues in Northern Ontario’s Remote First Nation Communities

This project created innovative ways ICT can be used to tackle some of the issues face by remote communities where limited in-person physical services, and increased the use of video conferencing for a variety of applications in the community including health, justice and education.

The project created informal learning environment where seniors can become more comfortable in the language and uses of technology and how they can integrate technology and computers into their daily lives at home.

This project offers Newfoundland and Labrador Aboriginals artists in an opportunity to display components of Aboriginal culture, tradition and language through digital representations.

This project offered women in Labrador an opportunity to learn how to combine storytelling with computer training centred to on sharing personal and family stories with digital media.

This project taught students how to use multi-media tools to create a digital memorial that captured the sentiments of family and friends of the students who had lost their lives the 1972 plane crash, and offered the opportunity for the community begin healing the pain of such a tragedy.

This project brought together Elders and educators to collaborate in developing online workshops in an Open Source Learning Management System for community members to access at anytime, from anywhere.

This project promotes the development of television & film production skills to document cultural activities to preserve knowledge and histories with multi-media technologies.

This project brings traditional knowledge together with GPS and digital technologies to locate map and record the traditional names to preserve the stories of the Arctic Bay territory.

This project brought community hunters and geomatics engineering students together to develop a system of geolocation technologies to observe record and map climate change effects in the Clyde River region.

A group of young men came together to form the Blackout Music record label using ICT to compose, share and collaborate in the creation of new hip hop music with other hip hop artists around the world.

This idea establishes a participatory local media that not only uses ICT tools to communicate with communities, but also uses these tools to connect the communities together to share stories and publicly celebrate their culture, and to create an interactive dialogue that is not a one-way flow of information.

This project trained a team of surveyors to use the E-Index survey tools to conduct door-to-door surveys in northern communities, gather community member feedback about the state of ICT in their local region and document community members input of the type of projects that help improve ICT levels within their community.

Meaningful Media: The Weaving of Digital Stories and Collaborative Narratives into Digital Strategies in the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement Community

The community focused and directed digital strategy project explored how digital media is a powerful empowering way to honour the past in the present, and preserve culture, stories and historical knowledge for the future.

Yvonne Poitras Pratt, PhD Candidate, Communication Studies, University of Calgary

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This community-led initiative is infusing Inuit, technological and scientific knowledge together to create more accurate weather models of the arctic region to produce forecasts that are more reliable.

This initiative, in a small isolated community, is digital media tools to create opportunities for young people to gain skills and have different experiences that will help them thrive in the modern day job market.

The Gateway Project in Sanikiluaq: Showcasing Community Heritage with Modern Technology

The project builds web development and media tools skills in community members to use modern technology to showcase the heritage and culture of the Inuit people with the world.

A Different Spin: Film & Video Skills Development & Training – How a CAP Site Spawned a Successful Private Social and Economic Enterprise

This movie making training project evolved into a successful video production company called Different Spin that trains people in the art of movie making, and enabling them to capture their own stories and projects.

This community project partnership installed a remote web based robotic lab in Tatla Lake School, accessible to one in the world particular students at North Island College, to offer online study of astronomy, chemistry and physics.

This resource centre became a CAP Site that offers programming to improve the employability skills for the job market, designed a computer lab for children, and created specialty programs for particular target groups of its community members.

Manitoba E-Association showcased technologies and resources available to seniors at the 50 Plus Living Show in Winnipeg, which led to programming that bridged the generational and technological gap amongst seniors to increased their comfort levels, awareness and use of ICT.

This highlights some of the participant successes stories of using their newly developed computer skills for personal, social and economic development well being, and the impacts experienced by the CAPYI interns as they delivered the e-capacity building sessions.

To minimize the effect of the digital divide in Waywayseecappo First Nation, Manitoba E-Association collaborated with other service providers and community to design a culturally appropriate initiative that developed the e-capacity of community members.

The idea for the virtual K-NET Meeting Place came out of the need to create an online open source communication environment that fostered the interaction, participation, learning and sharing amongst the K-NET communities, and with other eternal networks.

A social entrepreneur’s approach to using ICT app development as a tool preserve and share the Ojibway language and, to empower Aboriginal youth to create his or her own app development projects for cultural preservation, or sale in the virtual apps market place.

This training project engaged young Aboriginal Adults in a guided, open-ended, hands-on learning environment that exposed them to a variety of ICT tools and empowering approaches of using their newly developed knowledge.

This project, a folklore and technology approach, offers a participatory learning environment where participants, having no or limited awareness of ICT, have the freedom to ask questions, an opportunity for one-on-one hands-on training to increase the skills and knowledge of using of ICT tools.

This literacy project designed and delivered a culturally supportive, flexible distant learning environment accessible anytime, from anywhere, at no cost by members of remote and isolated Northern First Nation communities, and other learners from around the world.

Building Aboriginal Culturally Sensitive Protocol: Canupawakpa Dakota Nation IT Project

This community project focused on reducing technological and information barriers experienced by First Nations, including those with disabilities, and increase the number of qualified community members to provide IT support by creating a culturally appropriate, supported, and resourced interactive skills and knowledge building activities, partnerships and networks, for the betterment of the community.

These mobile technology workshops expose rural communities to a variety of technology tools and opportunities to learn how to use these tools by taking technology to the community.

Adoption of Technology for Economic Change: “Cultural Values Integrated with Technology”

This multi-tiered partnership project worked directly with three First Nation Communities to install various local technology and broadband services, increase awareness and use of available ICT resources and tools, and completed youth and elder digital story mentorship initiatives to preserve culture and language.

The WolfVille CAP Site started the WolfVille Community Radio, an internet radio station that offers community members volunteer opportunities to learn how to maintain, deliver and participate in virtual community radio programming.

This is a collection of stories examining, from a youth intern perspective, how delivering free public access to computers, and skills and knowledge development opportunities to community members contributes to the technological and economic development of communities.

This one-on-one coaching offers persons with disabilities, flexible opportunities to learn how to use social networks, as empowerment tools, to connect with family, friends, and others in the world, who may also be coping with similar health challenges.

The centre developed learning co-operatives to teach individuals ICT skills, and the knowledge of creating and maintaining enterprises that provide employment for many residents in the community.