Meadow Lake Tribal Council launches Indigenous-owned internet service provider - Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca

In order to address the issue, Meadow Lake Tribal Council partnered with SaskTel and Wood River Controls.“We went up and made a plan through all nine nations and then we went back and started talking about it … and we just kept talking and growing and you know building that as it came and here we are,” said Wood River Controls CEO, John Degraauw.

SaskTel President and CEO Doug Burnett said it’s not possible to get to every community, but that’s where partnerships like this come in to play. “We are working with smaller ISP’s, internet service providers, to take the broadband to what we call the last mile to some of these small locations and folks like beaver river broadband are perfectly situated for being able to do that,” said Burnett.Trudeau announces goal of having 98% of Canadians connected to high-speed internet by 2026 – Nov 9, 2020

Ben said the pandemic brought struggles to some First Nations communities as the world became more connected.“We were struggling, we were moving back and forth trying to find resources for our kids to learn instead of them sitting at home not getting that attention with school,” said Ben.Cowessess First Nation

Yet no drinking water for a lot of the FN’s communities.

Great, sign me up.

All that indigenous technology where would we be without it.

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