ZoomTerritory was an app developed to help you identify the lands upon which your Zoom stream is traveling. Despite the term’s frequent use, there is nothing “virtual” about the material implications of our digital systems. Information travels through wires buried in the ground, satellites occupy space in orbit around Earth, and servers use immense amounts of energy across vast plots of land. This application lets you take a moment to acknowledge the traditional keepers of that land.

The application was developed by a white settler in Tkoronto, an area taken care of by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Métis. It was done so with the permission of Native Land Digital, a group that “strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as [their] map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide.”

Changes to Zoom and an inability to keep up with the project means the app was never widely distributed, but you can find more information about it here.