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Tips, Tools, Strategies, and Technology

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

Community Technology Asset Mapping

Tips, Tools, Strategies, and Technology

Hi everyone, I'm new to the ABCD in action and this group... so to introduce myself I am Susan O'Donnell based in New Brunswick, Canada and have been researching technology and communities for many years. I am an active member of the Community Informatics Research Network and on the editorial board of the Journal of Community Informatics - http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej . My own research is related to remote and rural First Nations (Indigenous) communities and I'm currently doing some work in North Spirit Lake First Nation in a remote part of northern Ontario. I am new to ABCD and attended a workshop by John McKnight in July that got me all fired up about integrating some ABCD concepts into my research. One of the things we will be working on next year with my main research project is a community technology inventory, so there may be some synergies with the community technology assets work. I will see about joining the upcoming discussion in September... Thanks and regards! Susan