Impact of Arctic Internet Connectivity in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2022-2023

This dataset includes transcripts of interviews with individuals from the community of Ulukhaktok, focused on exploring experience with Internet within the community. Topics included the current state of Internet access within the community, how individuals used the Internet, socio-cultural impacts associated with increased access to high quality Internet within the community, and ideas for future projects that leveraged improved Internet access. The dataset includes two different sets of interviews, one from the first field trip (summer 2022) and another from the second fieldtrip (summer 2023) of the project. Between these two trips, the community gained access to Internet via the Starlink satellite system. Interviews were semi-structured, conducted in English, and then later transcribed using the automated service OtterAI. Transcripts may contain errors associated with the automated transcription process, and a new set of cleaned transcripts will be uploaded to the Arctic Data Center when available. The transcripts have been de-identified to protect the identities of participants, following Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol at the University of Washington. These data are also archived via Dryad, with the assigned identifier doi:10.5061/dryad.cjsxksnd8 .

本数据集收录了来自乌鲁克托克（Ulukhaktok）社区居民的访谈转录文本，旨在探索该社区内的互联网使用体验，调研主题涵盖当前社区的互联网接入现状、居民个体的互联网使用行为、社区普及高质量互联网接入所带来的社会文化影响，以及依托升级后的互联网资源开展未来项目的构想。本数据集包含两组访谈内容，分别来自该项目的两次实地调研：2022年夏季的首次调研与2023年夏季的第二次调研，两次调研的间隔期间，该社区通过星链（Starlink）卫星系统实现了互联网接入。本次访谈采用半结构化形式，以英语开展，后续通过OtterAI自动化服务完成转录，由于自动化转录流程可能存在误差，待清理后的全新转录文本可用时，将上传至北极数据中心（Arctic Data Center）。本数据集已按照华盛顿大学（University of Washington）机构审查委员会（Institutional Review Board, IRB）的规程完成去标识化处理，以保护受访者的身份信息，该数据集同时通过Dryad平台进行归档，分配的数字对象唯一标识符（DOI）为10.5061/dryad.cjsxksnd8。