KINAP - Empowering Indigenous Digital Sovereignty

Introducing OLONI

OLONI is KINAP’s foundational digital platform, designed to help Indigenous communities map where they are, where they want to go, and how to get there — all on their own terms.

The KINAP Digital Readiness Platform is a purpose-built tool designed to help First Nations communities, understand, and strengthen their digital capacity. The app serves as a diagnostic and decision-making engine that enables communities to evaluate their current digital infrastructure, governance, and readiness across eight critical categories. By offering a structured and community-specific assessment, the app generates personalized roadmaps that identify next steps, funding priorities, and areas for capacity building.

Assessment Tools

OLONI starts with a deep dive across 8 core dimensions of digital readiness — from connectivity and infrastructure to skills and governance. Communities can self-assess, track their status, and identify immediate priorities.

Roadmaps

Using your assessment results, OLONI generates tailored, staged roadmaps that reflect your community’s context — whether rural, remote, high-capacity, or emerging. Each stage includes clear action steps and resources to move forward.

Dashboards

Interactive dashboards show real-time progress, track milestones, and highlight areas of growth. Leaders can share progress with funders, partners, and community members — building transparency and accountability.

OLONI isn’t just a platform — it’s a strategy. It gives communities full visibility over their digital transformation journey, helping them shift from dependency to sovereignty, from short-term programs to long-term nation building.

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Founded to support Indigenous participation in the digital economy, KINAP is transforming the way communities build digital capacity, economic resilience, and IT infrastructure.

Our Start

KINAP was founded to address the growing need for Indigenous participation in Canada’s digital economy. Seeing the gap in community ownership of technology, digital infrastructure, and IT skills, we created KINAP to build pathways for self-determined development — rooted in sovereignty, not dependency.

We started with a simple question: how can Indigenous communities own their digital future instead of relying on outside vendors or government programs? KINAP is our answer — designed by Indigenous technologists and leaders to prioritize community-led infrastructure and capacity building.

Our Vision

Our vision is a digitally sovereign Indigenous future — where every Nation controls its own digital infrastructure, data, and technology workforce. We imagine a future where every community can assess its readiness, grow its capabilities, and confidently manage its IT systems, services, and security.

Through platforms like OLONI and programs like ITB, KINAP is not just building technology — we are building generational capacity. We envision hundreds of connected communities working together, sharing tools, training Indigenous tech leaders, and building a future that is secure, resilient, and truly ours.

Your gateway to IT skills, certifications, and Indigenous digital leadership.

Self-Paced Learning

Access flexible courses in IT Fundamentals, Networking, Cloud, AI and more — anytime, anywhere.

Certifications & Mentorship

Earn industry-recognized credentials and connect with mentors who support your journey.

Community Upskilling

Programs are designed to strengthen local talent pipelines and create pathways into tech careers.

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KINAP ITB Program

In partnership with IMP Solutions, the KINAP ITB (Industrial and Technological Benefits) Program is a strategic initiative designed to build, maintain, and operate IT systems directly within First Nations communities.

Kinap’s proposal, outlines how ITB’s can be leveraged through Defense Contractors, to support Indigenous Workforce development, and support Indigenous Infrastructure development. This enables participation by training workforce through infrastructure development initiatives.

Kinap aims to advance the ISED approved ITB program through IMP Group with IMP Solutions, to support Indigenous Inclusion across Canada. This starts with assessing existing technology infrastructure ownership inside respective communities, with professional services review and services assessments for each community required.

The Indigenous connectivity landscape is complex and Kinap’s re-designed supply chain model enables communities to own their infrastructure, and work together to develop professional services opportunities. Kinap’s model reduces the bullwhip effect in the supply chain for Indigenous communities and enables Indigenous communities to benefit from economies of scale through a cooperative approach. This program enables individual communities to own, manage, and sustain their own connectivity networks while developing a certified, local workforce.

Nation-Based Infrastructure

Empowering communities to own and manage their digital infrastructure through direct investment and skill development.

Long-Term Capacity

Focused on training, mentoring, and sustaining IT operations with Indigenous talent at the forefront.

Strategic Alignment

Delivered in compliance with Canada’s ITB Policy, aligning with Indigenous economic inclusion and reconciliation goals.

Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Digital Sovereignty