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First Mile Challenges to Last Mile Rhetoric: Exploring the Discourse between Remote and Rural First Nations and the Telecom Industry

机译：“第一英里”挑战到最后一英里的修辞：探索偏远和农村原住民与电信行业之间的关系

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Solving Canada’s digital divide remains a significant issue, particularly considering how broadband networks have an impact on remote and rural areas politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Attached to this, as well, are the politics of the historical relationship between remote and rural First Nation communities, corporations, and the government. The way in which the relationship between remote and rural First Nations, the federal and provincial governments, and the telecommunications industries is reproduced is largely through discursive means. One of the consequences of this is that many outsiders to this issue are largely misinformed through documents and press releases. These documents frame remote and rural First Nations as helpless and dependent upon government and telecom industry intervention in order to secure their dependence upon their services. We argue that this is another form of political colonialism; a form of colonialism which seeks to create dependence upon the service economy for its own survival. In this paper, we examine the discourse surrounding the issue of remote and rural broadband connectivity as a means of exploring the reproduction of established narratives of First Nations dependence upon aid and service. We also explore how First Nations communities are using websites and documents of their own to counter these portrayals of their ‘plight’ by emphasising their desire to own and operate ICT services in their communities with local members, for local members. We conclude that there is a significant challenge that remote and rural First Nations face, but that the steps that have been taken are towards escaping the cycle of co-dependency.
机译：解决加拿大的数字鸿沟仍然是一个重大问题，尤其是考虑到宽带网络如何在政治，经济，社会和文化上对边远地区和农村地区产生影响。与此相关的还有偏远乡村的原住民社区，公司和政府之间的历史关系政治。偏远和乡村原住民，联邦和省政府与电信行业之间的关系再现的方式主要是通过话语手段。其后果之一是，许多外来者都通过文件和新闻发布误导了这个问题。这些文件将偏远和乡村的原住民描述为无助的，他们依赖政府和电信行业的干预以确保他们对服务的依赖。我们认为这是政治殖民主义的另一种形式。一种殖民主义形式，其目的是为了依靠服务经济来维持自身的生存。在本文中，我们研究了围绕偏远和农村宽带连接问题的论述，以此作为探索再现原住民依赖援助和服务的既定叙述的手段。我们还将探讨原住民社区如何通过强调自己希望与当地成员一起在社区中拥有和运营ICT服务的愿望，来利用自己的网站和文件来应对“困境”。我们得出的结论是，偏远和乡村的原住民面临着巨大的挑战，但是已经采取的步骤是为了摆脱共同依赖的循环。

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