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The Chebucto Community Net (CCN) is a Canadian
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operating in
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(HRM). It is registered as a non-profit society under Nova Scotia's Registry of Joint Stocks using the name Chebucto Community Net Society. The name "Chebucto" comes from the local l'nu word for Halifax Harbour meaning "big water". Established in June 1994 in what was then the
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Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, then called the Chebucto ''Free'' Net, is now the oldest Internet Service Provider operating in the province of Nova Scotia and one of the first community nets in Canada. The Chebucto Suite or CSuite operating environment for free-nets was developed by Chebucto Community Net and used by many Canadian free-nets. Chebucto Community Net was also originally known as the Metro Community Access Network Society. CCN is a registered Canadian charity, and is a volunteer organization with representatives from across the municipality. CCN provides people in the HRM with
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"tools and services for sharing the broadest range of information, experience, ideas, and wisdom." Originally offering only a text-based terminal access to Internet and email, Chebucto Community Net has offered full Point-to-Point Protocol Internet access since 1998. CCN provides Internet services for individuals and non-profit groups, including dial-up, web hosting, email and mailing lists. In June 2013, Chebucto Community Net's Manors Project began offering Chebucto Wireless
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access to Joseph Howe Manor and H.P. MacKeen Manor, public-owned low-income seniors housing. This is the first non-profit public-run highspeed home Internet access in
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. CCN continues to be affiliated with Dalhousie University in Halifax with its registered office located in the Chase Building, home of Dalhousie University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. CCN is a member of ACORN-NS, the
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Organization of Research Networks and the Halifax Regional Community Access Program.


See also

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Community network A community network is a computer-based system that is intended to help support (usually geographical) communities by supporting, augmenting, and extending already existing social networks, by using networking technologies by, and for, a communit ...
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Community informatics Community informatics (CI) is an interdisciplinary field that is concerned with using information and communication technology (ICT) to empower members of communities and support their social, cultural, and economic development. Community infor ...
* National Capital Freenet *
Vancouver Community Network Vancouver Community Network (VCN) is a community-owned provider of free internet access, technical support, and web hosting services to individuals and nonprofit organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia. It developed StreetMessenger, a commun ...
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Free-Net A free-net was originally a computer system or network that provided public access to digital resources and community information, including personal communications, through modem dialup via the public switched telephone network. The concept ori ...
* ACORN-NS *
CANARIE CANARIE (formerly the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) is the not-for-profit organisation which operates the national backbone network of Canada's national research and education network (NREN). The orga ...


References


External links


Chebucto Community Net Homepage

Chebucto Wireless

Halifax Regional Community Access Program Homepage

ACORN-NS Homepage

CANARIE Homepage
1994 establishments in Nova Scotia Non-profit organizations based in Nova Scotia Bulletin board systems Community networks Companies based in Halifax, Nova Scotia Dalhousie University Internet service providers of Canada {{NovaScotia-stub