CRRBC Central Canada 2022: How satellite can help address digital divide with a little help from the NRC

By Lynn Greiner GEORGINA, Ont. – The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has its fingers in a lot of pies, and at a conference held last week by Canada’s Rural and Remote Broadband Community (CRRBC), Lynne Genik, director of the high throughput and secure networks (HTSN) challenge program at the NRC, spoke about how the HTSN program is helping to address the digital divide. One of eight challenge programs run by the NRC as part of its collaborative science, technology and innovation program, HTSN began in 2019, and is funded until 2028. NRC researchers and facilities from across 14...