Kaslo infoNet Society (KiN)

11/21/2025

If you missed our AGM you can read our President's Report here:
https://kin.bc.ca/news/agm-2025-presidents-report/

02/18/2025

Exploring Rural Connectivity

Across Canada, rural communities face uneven access to connectivity – a digital divide between urban and rural, as well as across rural. A growing number of rural communities have taken active roles in local connectivity.

Selkirk College’s BC Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development, Dr. Sarah-Patricia Breen, co-authored a new open access journal article on rural connectivity with Dr. S. Ashleigh Weeden, University of Guelph, and Dr. Wayne Kelly, Director of the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University.

This paper explores several examples and uses them to develop a set of rural community models with the aim of inviting further refinement and challenge of these models and to help communities understand the challenges and options for building local Internet access.

Access the paper here: https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/5508

Portions of this research was funded by the Mitacs Accelerate program, with support from CityWest. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support and guidance received from Dr. Robert Long at City West and the contributions of research interns McKenna Dubois and Ish*th Nigam.

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Kaslo infoNet Society (KiN) Canadian Innovation BC Rural Centre Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Regional District of Central Kootenay Brittny Anderson Rob Morrison, MP Selkirk College Alumni

02/01/2025

You can read the President's Report from our last AGM from October 2024 here: https://kin.bc.ca/news/agm-2024-presidents-report/

10/12/2024

KiN has a new website! One of the new features is new subscribers can now send a subscription request directly through the website! This feature can be found by clicking on the subscribe buttons on the home page, or via the Subscribe menu in the top right corner of the website.

06/30/2024

A great article about Kin from one of our suppliers:

As a local not-for-profit internet service provider in British Columbia, Kaslo infoNet Society is bringing affordable high-speed fiber internet to the remote mountain communities of the West Kootenay Region, Canada. And Genexis is a vital vendor partner.

12/22/2023

Land Act:

Notice of Application for a Disposition of Crown Land

Take notice that We, Kaslo InfoNet Society, from Kaslo, BC, have applied to the British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (WLRS), Kootenay Boundary Region, for an amendment to a Licence of Occupation for telecommunication use situated on Provincial Crown Foreshore located in the vicinity of Kootenay Lake, BC.

WLRS invites comments on this amendment application, the Lands File is 4405896. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to Sr. Authorization Specialist, WLRS, Kootenay Boundary Region, at 1902 Theatre Road, Cranbrook, BC V1C 7G1. Comments will be received by WLRS up to January 28, 2024. WLRS may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/ for more information.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. Access to these records requires the submission of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Visit http://www.gov.bc.ca/freedomofinformation to learn more about FOI submissions.

10/17/2023

KiN is aware of an issue affecting our service and we are investigating. The issue is upstream from kin. We will update this message as soon as we know more. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

1:00 update: a power outage in Balfour is affecting our upstream provider. KiN techs have routed traffic over our backup wireless link to Crawford Bay. Expect the next update by 3pm.

2:20pm, final update: Power has been restored upstream and all services should be back to normal. If you are still experiencing issues, try power cycling your equipment. Our support line is 250.353.1546 but may not be able to respond immediately due to the large volume of calls received.

10/04/2023

When power fails, KiN doesn’t.
If you need to get online or make a phone call from the North Kootenay Lake areas affected by the most recent power outage, there is a free public phone at the Argenta Hall.

If you are able to provide generator or battery power to the KiN devices in your house, you can connect as normal. Our network, designed by locals, has power resiliency as a core feature.

07/05/2023

Thank you for your patience and continued support. We are finally ready for our AGM. It will be hosted at the Langham in the Theatre room on Wednesday July 19 at 7:00 PM.
There is a virtual attendance option (ask us for the link) as well, however we encourage you to show up in person as there will be complimentary tea and sweets.

05/23/2023

KiN trucks in the 2023 May Days parade!