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 .