Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi

In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction. Kajsa Linnarsson, PC World Fiber Optics to the Tipi "Broadband Innovations" is a four-part series that highlights ground-breaking uses of broadband, and the people who are using the technology to preserve the past, reshape the future, and fulfill their dreams. One group of such people is the Ktunaxa Nation of British Columbia, Canada. Though information technology increases global assimilation and encourages adoption of new ways of life, it also offers tools to help preserve the old. Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the indigenous Ktunaxa people of British Columbia had a thriving culture going back 10,000 years. Following more than a century of... [read full story]