Digital Indigenous Democracy is a proposal to the Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream for $1 million funding in 2011-12. It is a partnership among IsumaTV, NITV (Nunavut Independent TV Network), the Hamlet Councils of seven Baffin Island communities led by Igloolik, and scholars from Carleton University and Mount Allison University. […]
community media • Igloolik • indigenous communities • Inuit • Inuktitut • IsumaTV • low bandwidth • NunavutTravelling Through Layers: Inuit Artists Appropriate New Technologies
When the time came a few years ago to find an Inuktitut term for the word “Internet,” Nunavut’s former Official Languages Commissioner, Eva Aariak, chose ikiaqqivik, or “traveling through layers” (Minogue, 2005, n.p.). The word comes from the concept describing what a shaman does when asked to find out about […]
2006 • elder • Igloolik • ikiaqqivik • Inuit • IsumaTV • Nunavut