$7 billion price tag to close Canada's digital divide

In August, the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY) overruled its previous refusal and now approved the original funding proposal for NITV on IsumaTV 3.0, NITV's 2011-12 proposal to expand the network of IsumaTV High-speed MediaPlayers to a total of 8 Baffin Island communities: Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit, started in 2010-11, and add… Uqalimakkanirit

"The estimate came in a presentation on Wednesday before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in Timmins, Ont., as the federal regulator investigates how to close the digital gap between urban and rural areas." Globe&Mail ht… Uqalimakkanirit

Transcript of the original speech. Complete PDF presentation available to download at the bottom of this text under attached files.
WATCH Mary Simon’s speech at IsumaTV
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Letter of support to Zacharias Kunuk
From Louis Tapardjuk,
Minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth
Government of Nunavut
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31, August 2008
Zacharias Kunuk, President
Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc.
Igloolik Nunavut
XOA OLO
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Complete PDF presentation available to download at the bottom of this text under attached files.
WATCH Louis Tapardjuk speech at IsumaTV
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Complete PDF presentation available to download at the bottom of this page under attached files.
WATCH Zacharias speech at IsumaTV
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Inuit Language and Culture Institute

Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, speaking at the Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium in Tromso, Norway, October 20, 2008, announced the creation of the Inuit Language and Culture Institute on IsumaTV, a five year $25 million commitment to install high-speed broadband and public access production studios in every participating Inuit community.
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