Citizen Broadband - Canada

Citizen engagement & community participation online: The Canadian Experience Michael de Percy Public Sphere 1.0: High Bandwidth for Australia

Samuel McGowan, a Canadian, brought the telegraph to Australia in 1853
Since the telegraph, Australia and Canada have been (mostly) on par in adopting communications technologies - until the broadband era…
The two countries are most-similar in many ways…
I have been comparing broadband outcomes in Canada and Australia since 2005
This presentation provides some of my recent
experiences with Canada’s use of broadband
Overview why canada?

Keewaytinook Okimakanak , which means Northern Chiefs in Oji-Cree, is a non-political Chiefs Council serving First Nations in the Northern Ontario region. The organization provides services in:
Health
Education
Economic development
Employment assistance
Legal assistance
Public works
Finance and administration
Computer communications (K-Net Services)
First Nations (first things first!) connecting communities

Canada is (comparatively) a very open society and for many years has adopted a world-leader approach to broadband and New Media. Some examples:
Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Academic uses of the Net: Professor Michael Geist
CRTC on Internet Traffic Management (now closed)
Ontario Government
Canadians have been accessing online policy consultations for many years…
Models of Engagement citizen engagement

The not-for-profit/municipal sector in Canada provides access to free Net services:
National Capital FreeNet
Fred eZone (Fredericton)
BC Wireless Network Society
Wireless Toronto
Some of the effects have been:
Attracting businesses to municipalities
Addressing the digital divide
Introducing competition by ‘signalling’ demand
Community Broadband free WiFi!

Broadband used to disseminate travel information
Supports innovative travel information by Ottawa public transport provider ‘OC Transpo‘
The ‘travel planner’ enables people to plan their travel through information readily available on the Net, often accessible through free Wi-Fi
Sample of the Travel Planner
And Canadians help
improve the service…
Broadband & Travel

Citizen Broadband - Canada

by University of Canberra on May 05, 2009

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