Community Broadband Networks for Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities

Learn about bridging the digital divide in Indigenous communities through a 26-minute NANOG conference talk exploring successful broadband network initiatives. Discover how the Internet Society partners with Indigenous communities to implement sustainable connectivity solutions, with only 24% of Indigenous communities having access to high-speed Internet compared to 97% of urban households in Canada. Explore a collaborative project between the Internet Society and the National Research Council of Canada focused on training Indigenous communities in Ontario and Northwest territories for broadband network deployments. Examine a case study of a groundbreaking wireless broadband network implementation in the Arctic indigenous community of Ulukhaktok, representing one of the northernmost deployments of its kind. Presented by Dr. Hosein Badran, Senior Director of Internet Growth and Trust at the Internet Society, who brings over 25 years of expertise in technology leadership roles at organizations including Cisco Systems, Qatar Computing Research Institute, and various telecommunications companies.