Beyond Connectivity
The Dehcho region of the Northwest Territories faces a digital infrastructure gap that goes beyond internet access. While connectivity is improving along the Mackenzie Valley, the deeper challenge is capacity — the local ability to build, maintain, and control digital systems. Dehcho Tech focuses on the full stack of digital readiness: fibre and wireless infrastructure, network engineering skills, server and data centre operations, and digital literacy for community members of all ages.
Training Northern Technologists
The most important infrastructure is human. Jerald Sibbeston, who spent thirty years in Fort Simpson, is committed to training young people in the Dehcho to globally recognized standards. The immediate target: preparing youth to pass Cisco CCNA examinations — a certification that validates real-world networking skills and opens career pathways in technology infrastructure worldwide. This is not about bringing southern consultants north. It is about building permanent local capacity.
Economic Transition
The Dehcho's economy has historically centred on resource extraction and government services. Technology infrastructure offers a complementary economic base: steady employment, high-value skills, and products that can be delivered globally from a Fort Simpson office. Yamoria's broader vision of northern sovereign compute creates the demand; Dehcho Tech builds the workforce to meet it.