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Ardicom - Canada

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In the Northwest Territories, a region serving 10.4 million square miles with isolated inhabitants, an aboriginal based company Ardicom will connect 58 of the Arctic's population centers with terrestrial and satellite nodes. This will deliver high-speed Internet access, videoconferencing, telemedicine, and distance education to a region forever isolated by its geography.
Communication Strategies

58 communities across 3.4 million square kilometers are now linked by a high-speed digital network established by a locally owned company. Youth produce local programming for television and distribution on the web, also crafts are featured
Development Issues

Economic development, education, health, connectivity.
Key Points

The Inuit are accomplished technophiles, accepting technology that is durable in their environment, but some question the artificial environment created by cyberspace set to circumvent, and therefore overcome geography. This is a concern from people who gain identity from the land they inhabit. Most of the computers will be distributed to schools for educational purposes.
Sources

Teitelbaum, Sheldon., "The Call of the Wired". Wired, November 1997, pgs 239 - 286.