Including Indigenous voices in the decisions and solutions that shape the Internet is a vital part of closing the global digital divide.
Each year, the Indigenous Connectivity Summit brings together community network managers and operators, Indigenous-owned Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers and Indigenous leaders. We discuss ways to ensure Alaska Native, American Indian, Inuit, Native Hawaiian, First Nations and Métis communities have affordable, high-quality and sustainable Internet access, and talk about how it can support social and economic development.
The Summit provides practical, hands-on training to help Indigenous communities connect to the Internet to and creates opportunities to build relationships and share useful knowledge and experience.
This year we offered two pre-Summit trainings: Policy and Advocacy, and Community Networks. These six-week courses consisted of one 90-minute webinar per week beginning Tuesday, 1 September and concluding the week of 5 October.
2020 event took place virtually from 5-9 October 2020.
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