Voice of the Arctic Inupiat: Promoting Arctic communication technology.

Voice of the Arctic Inupiat (VOICE) is a nonprofit organization that provides direct input from the Inupiat people regarding Arctic policy. Robust communication is vital for the organization, both in connecting the tribal councils, municipal governments, educational institutions, and Alaska Native corporations that form its membership and communicating the concerns, knowledge, and insight of those entities to the rest of the world

The nonprofit says, "With twenty member organizations spread across seven communities on the North Slope, we rely a great deal on telecommunications systems to function internally From an external standpoint, it's equally important one of VOICE'S purposes is to become the local knowledge and resource center for our communities and people regarding developments in the Arctic Slope region. Accomplishing that purpose and others, as well as our goal of increasing communication and information-sharing amongst organizations of the North Slope, requires communications infrastructure.'

Telecommunications infrastructure is ongoing in the Arctic region, and the potential benefits of this development are numerous: improved education, increased commerce, and additional access to healthcare, among others 'It cultivates improvements in science and research by creating better conditions for data collection, data preservation, and data transfer within, to. and from the Arctic. Also, with residents gaining access to 21st-century...