From the First Mile to Outer Space: Tamaani Satellite Internet in Northern Quebec

• Published in: The Journal of Community Informatics
• Main Authors: McMahon, Rob, Mangiok, Thomassie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo Library 2013
• Subjects: First Mile; Aboriginal broadband; Inuit broadband; indigenous broadband; broadband infrastructure; Nunavik; Kativik Regional Government; rural and remote access; Canada; Ivujivik; Kativik; inuit
• Online Access: https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/2725; https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v10i2.2725

Across Canada, discrepancies of access to broadband exist between urban centres and rural and remote Aboriginal communities. Government, public and private sector organizations are partnering to address these digital divides. Some employ a ‘First Mile’ approach that foregrounds how community-based i...