The Infrastructure Canada Smart Cities Challenge jury has prepared a video for our project, Community, Connectivity and Digital Access for Suicide Prevention in Nunavut. Kaviq Kaluraq, an instructor at Arctic College and a board member for the Nunavut Impact Review Board, shares her thoughts on the project.

Transcript

My name is Kaviq Kaluraq. I’m originally from Baker Lake, Nunavut. I currently live in Iqaluit. I’m an instructor at Arctic College. I’m also a board member for the Nunavut Impact Review Board.

Well, in my board work in Nunavut, I’m involved in environmental impact assessment, so the opportunity to be involved in something that’s different and nationwide was exciting: something that would involve communities and their aspirations.

I’ve heard, for a very long time, that mental health has been a concern for Nunavummiut and the application of smart technology and the issues that communities face on something that they’ve been wanting to address and how they’ve tied it together made it inspiring.