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June 15, 2026
OIATC welcomes an Elder and a director to the council
OIATC has added two people to the council as it incorporates as a not-for-profit: an Elder and Knowledge Keeper, and a director. The council stays small, and grows on fit rather than urgency.Steven Be…
On: Council -
June 13, 2026
When a foreign order can switch off your AI
On the evening of June 12, 2026, a United States export order forced a major AI company to cut off its two most capable models to every foreign national, worldwide, overnight. Because the company coul…
On: Sovereign Ai -
June 12, 2026
A doll that speaks Anishinaabemowin
The idea arrived twice on the same day. In a community thread about the future of the language, a commenter suggested putting fluent speakers' voices into a learning doll, with the recordings kept by …
On: Anishinaabemowin Doll -
June 12, 2026
A working project to keep Anishinaabemowin alive
OIATC has published a project section for Anishinaabemowin, a live, community-owned effort to keep the language alive through the next twenty years. The stakes are in the numbers. The 2021 Census put …
On: Anishinaabemowin -
June 2, 2026
Ottawa shut down its $298-million e-prescribing program
Ottawa has shut down PrescribeIT, the federal "axe the fax" program built to replace fax machines for sending prescriptions between doctors and pharmacies, after spending close to $300-million on a se…
On: Prescribeit -
June 1, 2026
Anokii is live on oiatc.ca
OIATC has launched Anokii, a geography-aware resource instance with a grounded, cited assistant. Communities are vantage points on one shared map, not silos. It is live for Sagamok and Massey.
On: Anokii -
May 31, 2026
Where does your community's data actually live?
A new explainer maps where community data physically goes, from origin servers to global copies, and what the US CLOUD Act and OCAP mean for it. It is a companion to the Sagamok portal disclosure.…
On: Where Your Data Lives -
May 28, 2026
Our position on counter-disinformation
OIATC has published its position on countering disinformation in and about First Nations communities. It sets out the stance and the principles behind it.
On: Counter Disinformation