Chebucto

Serving Your Community's Online Needs Since 1994. The Chebucto Community Net is a federally registered charitable organization promoting universal access to the tools of communication. We are a volunteer-run non-profit community-based Internet Service Provider in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Chebucto Community Net is a volunteer organization w... hich strives to enable all people in the Greater Halifax Region to participate in an electronic public space. Chebucto Community Net's goal is to assist users to gather and share information, to participate in exchanges and dialogue that enrich their lives and their community. In the summer of 1993, several individuals began meeting at the Halifax Library with the intent to form a community network in the area. The idea was to provide free access to the Internet, promote freedom of ideas and communication on the Internet and encourage individuals and community groups to use the Internet as a vehicle for personal and community development. Early in the fall of 1993, the project divided, one project being the on-going creation of Community Net organizing committees throughout the province of Nova Scotia, the other focusing on the creation of a prototype serving the local calling area in the HRM. Originally called the Chebucto FreeNet, and operating on a Sparc 2 generously loaned by Dalhousie University, Chebucto began operating as a text-based host in late October 1993. The name "Chebucto" comes from the Mi'kmaq word meaning "Chief Harbour". Eastern Canada's oldest running independent Internet Service Provider, on June 16, 1994, our name was changed to Chebucto Community Net (CCN), which better reflects our focus. On June 7, 2013 we completed the first phase of our Manors Project, a bold plan to provide highspeed wireless Internet access to public-run low-income seniors housing. Joseph Howe Manor and H.P. MacKeen Manor became the first examples of non-profit home highspeed Internet access in Eastern Canada and the first multi-dwelling residences in the Maritimes with ...Read More