Hi we agreed to use this space to suggest links to projects we are working on or interested in.

I'm a researcher with the University of New Brunswick and the National Research Council in Canada and currently have several community-based projects going, all with partners.

This first one is currently called VideoCom and is changing its name soon to First Nations Innovation: Enterprise ICT Development. It's just been funded for another 5 years to 2017. We're looking at how remote and rural First Nations are using technologies for community, social and economic development. There's links to lots of publications so far:

http://videocom.firstnation.ca

Another one is called First Mile and it's more about community ownership of broadband infrastructure:

http://firstmile.ca

Also one of our research partners, Keewaytinook Okimakanak, is a tribal council serving very remote fly-in communities and we are working together on an e-Community project that's just starting up:

http://e-community.knet.ca/

Looking forward to more links and more discussion! Best wishes from Fredericton, Canada. Susan

updated by @deb-wisniewski: 10/25/16 02:08:10PM

thanks for posting these, Susan. also great meeting you on hangout. Looking forward to more conversations about what you're doing...

Hi everyone!

I'm pleased to let you know that our two new papers based on research with First Nations in Quebec and Ontario are now available. Both papers will be presented tomorrow at the International Rural Network conference in Australia - the organizers allowed us to use online communication tools to make these presentations when we were unable to travel at the last minute. The links to both papers are below and on our VideoCom project page: http://videocom.firstnation.ca

The first paper, a collaboration with Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation and our research partner the First Nations Education Council, looks at how the KZA community is using broadband networks to support the delivery of community services:

Broadband-Enabled Community Services in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation: Developing an e-Community Approach

We will put the link on our website of the live videoconference presentation of this paper as soon as it is available.

The second paper, a collaboration with our research partner Keewaytinook Okimakanak, is based on a study conducted in the Sioux Lookout zone of Ontario:

Community Resilience and Social Media: Remote and Rural First Nations Communities, Social Isolation and Cultural Preservation

We presented this second paper by pre-recorded video. Here's a link to the video presentation: http://youtube.com/fninnovation

Best wishes from Fredericton,
Susan