Frozen superhighway: How Arctic indigenous organizations can embrace the internet
OPINION: Parts the Arctic are becoming connected to top-notch broadband links. These links stand to particularly benefit the region's indigenous groups.
February 16, 2018
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The 4,000 residents of Utqiagvik, the northernmost city in the United States, was recently plugged into some of the fastest internet in the world purely because of the city’s location along a new subsea cable between Europe and Asia. Imagine you live in a remote community that has had access to internet that is spotty, at best. What do you do with this new resource? Can you use it for employment? Development? Education? Where would you go to find out the answers to these questions?
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