“Membertou Always Wanted To Succeed”: The Membertou Business Model
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Abstract
Membertou First Nation, an urban reserve located within the city limits of Sydney, Nova Scotia, has experienced a transformation unmatched by other Canadian First Nations communities as a result of the establishment of a new governance structure and approach to economic development.1 Studies of Indigenous entrepreneurship and cultural tourism in the Canadian context have highlighted this Mi'kmaw2 community and credited the "Membertou Model" as the key to its success (see for example Kayseas, Hindle & Anderson, 2006; Brown, Pyke & Johnson, 2008; Johnstone, 2008; Kayseas, 2009). Despite its proximity to the city's urban centre, the reserve fought extreme levels of poverty such as inadequate housing conditions, high unemployment rates, and until the 1960s, restricted access to municipal services such as sewer and garbage collection (Membertou Band Council, 1983). In the mid-1990s, however, Membertou began to experience an economic and socio-cultural renaissance. Since the mid-1990s, Membertou has successfully implemented a community based development plan that enables them to compete in the mainstream economy while improving the quality of life of their members (Cardinal, 2005; Cornell, Jorensen, Kalt & Splide, 2005; Thayer Scott, 2004). THE MEMBERTOU MODEL Bernd Christmas, former Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel for Membertou, explained the Membertou Model as "a 'First Nations progression model' (see Figure 1), based on using a business approach to government, management, and economic development to achieve social objectives" (quoted in Thayer Scott, 2004, p. 14).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".