by Jeff Garcie | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Today, I am actually very excited to write my final blog post as a NDIA Corps Member on one of the Alutiiq Online Chromebooks from the Ouzinkie Tribal Media Center. I left my computer charger in Kodiak. With a dead computer, I am able to write and work from the...
by Jeff Garcie | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The Village of Akhiok is situated on the southernmost point of Kodiak Island. Its isolation is only surpassed by its beauty. The village overlooks Cape Alatak where over 1000 years ago the Ancestors carved petroglyphs in the rock faces near the shore. The village of...
by Jeff Garcie | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
When I started working as a digital inclusion advocate in 2017, one of the first projects I worked on was Libraries Leading with TV Whitespace. The program was designed to enable libraries to broadcast a TVWS signal from the central point of the library to the...
by Jeff Garcie | Feb 8, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
We took off from the Kodiak airport after a long delay due to high winds. The flight to Akhiok was beautiful but bumpy. As we flew south along the western coast of Kodiak. The sheer distance of the flight and the seemingly impassable mountains that stretched to the...
by Jeff Garcie | Jan 29, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I arrived in Old Harbor on the eastern side of Kodiak after a bumpy flight through the snowy mountain passes. The houses perched over the sea looked beautiful in the morning sun. I noticed right away that the houses were missing a telltale sign of poor Internet...
