CIRA awards $1.25M to Indigenous, northern and student projects, funds over 200 digital equity initiatives to date
Summary
On behalf of HelpAge Canada and our partners Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre and Pinnguaq Association, Thank You Nakurmiik.CIRA Grants continue to fund a wide range of projects to build a resilient, trusted and secure internet for all Canadians. In collaboration with Indigenous communities, Actua helps build teachers capacity to incorporate culturally inclusive, land-based digital skills lessons into the classroom. This program aims to serve Indigenous youth in the Treaty 7 region.Portage College will create free, open-source hands-on workshops to encourage the safe adoption of broadband technology and the confident use of the internet in First Nation and M\xe9tis communities with new connectivity in Northeastern Alberta.This project will build a digital skills training and entrepreneurship program to empower Indigenous and non-Indigenous entrepreneurs, youth and elders/seniors throughout rural communities within S\xf3lh T\xe9m\xe9xw and Chilliwack.This project seeks to implement workshops on digital literacy, computational thinking and coding as well as create resources for 16,000 students in remote, rural, Indigenous and other communities across British Columbia.The Leqa:mel Development Corporation will develop a fibre optic network and hardware upgrade so that the Leqa:mel Development Corporation can provide more own-source revenue and stable internet to Leqa:mel First Nation (LFN). The program will simultaneously employ Inuit youth, strengthen community relations and preserve culture and language.This project will provide Black girls in the Greater Toronto Area with workshops that will build the cognitive and technical skills required to become active and confident digital citizens.Brock University will develop gendered, Indigenized digital literacy workshops and modules on using the internet for promoting health, wellbeing and developing economic independence. Participants will be from each province and territory, with special care given to select youth from Indigenous, northern and rural communities.CIRA is the national not-for-profit best known for managing the .CA domain on behalf of all Canadians.