4 record(s) found in the location "North Slave Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Connecting Indigenous Families in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: McMahon, Rob
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5595. Telecommunications services in remote communities of northern Canada are usually more expensive, slower, less available, less reliable, and of lower quality regarding service compared to their southern and urban counterparts. The global pandemic has further highlighted the digital divide and broadband service dispari...


Young Canadians in a Wired World (YCWW) - Phase II - Field Survey
Principal Investigator: Huxtable, Lynn
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2013 2005
Summary: This project is a follow-up to a similar project that was done across Canada in 2001, and to the focus groups that were done in November 2003. The researchers want to find out what is changing in the ways that young people use the Internet. Issues they...


Connecting the North: Northern Aboriginal Peoples Advocate for a Northern Information Highway
Principal Investigator: Matiation, Nicole
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: Examination of "Connecting the North" symposium held in 1994, as a watershed event within the historical continuum of First Peoples' activism in communications technology and content in Canada's North. The researcher will trace the role of this symposium in shaping stakeholders' and government discourse relative to policy issues. Also will be looking at actual outcomes such as the creation of Ardi...


The Internet as a Research and Communications Tool: the Promise and Reality
Principal Investigator: Hogan, Bernard
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: This study will involve using survey questionnaires to gather data on student usage of the Internet at Aurora College (Ft. Smith, Inuvik, and Yellowknife campuses). Approximately 150 students will be surveyed in Fort Smith, 70 students in Inuvik, and 150 students in Yellowknife. This data will be evaluated to determine the usefulness of the Internet for communications and research purposes....


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