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DigitalNWT Presentations & Research

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Academic Articles

McMahon, R., & Akcayir, M. (2022). Investigating concentrated exclusion in telecommunications development: Engaging rural voices from Northern Canada. Journal of Rural Studies, 95: 183-194

McMahon, R. & Akcayir, M. (2022). Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions. Telecommunications Policy, 46(9): 102402

McMahon, R., Akcayir, M., McNally, M.B. & Okheena, S. (2021). Making sense of digital inequalities in remote contexts: Conceptions of and responses to connectivity challenges in the Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Communication, 15(1): 5229-5251.


Reports and Policy Submissions


DigitalNWT Northwest Territories Report on Household Internet Affordability in Rural/Remote Communities. (2022). DigitalNWT/McMahon & Akcayir. Edmonton and Inuvik: DigitalNWT. September. 18 pages.

DigitalNWT Report to CRTC 2020-367: The state of telecommunications services in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Edmonton and Inuvik: DigitalNWT. January. 31 pages.


Conference Presentations

Learn more about some of the conference presentations our team has presented. If you'd like to learn more about a particular presentation, please contact us with your inquiry.

2021
Presentation

Co-designing community networking literacies with rural Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada. International Association of Media and Communication Researchers Annual Conference (Online). July 2021.
Presenters
  • McMahon, R.
  • McNally, M.
  • Alvarez, M.
  • Nitschke, E.
  • Napier, K.
  • Akcayir, M
Presentation

Co-Creating digital media with Indigenous communities during COVID-19: Reflections from instructors, graduate students and community members from Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada (K. Napier, C. Koyczan, A. Almond,  D. Steinhauer, and K. Kevin Lewis). Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference (Online), June 2021.
Presenters
  • Whiskeyjack, L.
  • McMahon, R.
Presentation

Digital NWT 1: Journey of a community-oriented connectivity and digital literacy project. Perspectives from graduate researchers. Canadian Communications Association Annual Conference (Online), June 2021.
Presenters
  • Leanne Goose
  • Julia Guy
  • Maria Alvarez Malvido
  • Rob McMahon
  • Michael McNally
  • Belinda Ongaro
Title

Digital NWT 2: #NWTDigitalDivide film fest and discussion with NWT digital innovators. Canadian Communications Association Annual Conference (Online), June 2021.
Presenters
  • Lyle Fabian
  • Jacey Firth-Hagen
  • Leela Gilday
  • Travis Mercredi
  • Agnes Mitchell
Title

Smart societies in the high north (Panelist). UArctic Congress 2021 (Online), May 2021.
Presenters
  • McMahon R.

Public Presentations

Interested in learning more about our public presentations? Select a date below to view some of the presentations our team has conducted in the past.

2021
Presentation

Blais, S., Guy, J., Ongaro, B., and McNally, M. (2021). Finding and Creating Open Materials that Reflect NWT Communities. Cascadia OER Summit (Online). April 2021.
Presentation

McNally, M. B. (2019). DigitalNWT: Building Digital Capacity in the Northwest Territories. University of Alberta Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Research Colloquium. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. Nov. 2019.

Media Articles

See what others are saying about the DigitalNWT project by browsing through the following articles.

2021

Digital NWT supports digital literacy and Indigenous sovereignty in Northern communities.

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The North needs more equitable, accessible Internet” March 16, 2021

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Digital NWT encourages residents to give feedback on internet, phone service” January 14, 2021

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Online campaign encourages communities to participate CRTC public consultation” January 11, 2021

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2020

Is your internet painfully slow? This N.W.T. organization wants to hear about it” September 26, 2020

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COVID-19 is highlighting Canada’s digital divide: What can we do about it?” April 16, 2020

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