{"id":451,"date":"2012-10-15T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:29:48","slug":"nirb-baffinland-decision-recommends-digital-indigenous-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/2012\/nirb-baffinland-decision-recommends-digital-indigenous-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"NIRB Baffinland Decision Recommends Digital Indigenous Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The Nunavut Impact Review Board broke new ground for regulators in Canada this month. NIRB recommends using new media technology to inform, consult and connect Inuit communities in its Final Hearing Report on Baffinland\u2019s Mary River Project released September 14, 2012.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The potential of digital media to improve public participation in oral Inuktitut was demonstrated to NIRB by IsumaTV\u2019s Digital Indigenous Democracy [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isuma.tv\/DID\">www.isuma.tv\/DID<\/a>], a new web portal launched last May by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The website streamed live call-in radio shows, used Skype and collected video testimonies of Elders and Youth to promote region-wide community discussion in Inuktitut on the Baffinland development.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Kunuk delivered 22 call-in radio shows and 59 video consultations to NIRB\u2019s Final Public Hearings in Iqaluit, Igloolik and Pond Inlet July 16-28. Kunuk\u2019s presentation with human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett urged NIRB and Baffinland to use 21st century media to increase Inuktitut information and participation at the community level, to meet today\u2019s constitutional and human rights standards of informed consultation and consent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Digital Indigenous Democracy also filmed the Public Hearings and streamed Inuktitut audio from Igloolik and Pond Inlet live online to all Nunavut communities and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">NIRB\u2019s September 14 Final Hearing Report to AANDC Minister John Duncan approves the multi-billion dollar Baffinland development with 184 wide-ranging Conditions that include a multimedia commitment to oral Inuktitut consultation and Inuit participation in four conditions:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To establish\u00a0<strong>a project-specific web portal<\/strong>\u00a0or web page to make monitoring and reporting information available to the general public (General Conditions item 12, p. 241);<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To consider the\u00a0<strong>use of<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>existing and innovative technologies<\/strong>\u00a0(e.g. community radio station call-in shows, cell phones, video-conferencing, Skype, etc.) to maintain contact between workers on the job and families at home (Specific Condition #143, p. 289);<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To make all reasonable efforts to engage<strong>\u00a0Elders and community members&#8230;to have community level input<\/strong>\u00a0into monitoring and mitigative measures\u2026informed by traditional activities, cultural resources and land use (Specific Condition #162, p. 295); and<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To continue to engage and\u00a0<strong>consult with the communities\u2026to ensure that Nunavummiut are kept informed<\/strong>\u00a0about the Project activities\u2026management and monitoring plans (Specific Condition #163, p. 296).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/3ci\/3ci_files\/Documents\/IsumaTVPressRelease_NIRBreport120925.pdf\">click here<\/a>\u00a0for more on this project that involved the project 3ci&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/3ci\/3ci_files\/FAbele.htm\">Frances Abele<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/3ci\/3ci_files\/SKennedy.htm\">Sheena Kennedy Dalseg<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/3ci\/3ci_files\/JGladstone.html\">Joshua Gladstone<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/3ci\/3ci_files\/TMackay.html\">Teevi Mackay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nunavut Impact Review Board broke new ground for regulators in Canada this month. NIRB recommends using new media technology to inform, consult and connect Inuit communities in its Final Hearing Report on Baffinland\u2019s Mary River Project released September 14, 2012. 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