by Jeff Garcie | Jan 29, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The Kodiak Island Borough School District is invested in the educations of the children in our rural villages. Over the years, their innovation and persistence for excellence has allowed the school district to integrate a video conferencing system that allows students...
by Jeff Garcie | Jan 19, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The villages of Kodiak are each individually unique although, they all share some of the same challenges. Access is restricted to boat and plane. The infrastructures that support the villages are modest at best. This is quite a contrast to the huge benefit to the...
by Jeff Garcie | Jan 18, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The Alutiiq Museum has been working with AMERIND Critical Infrastructure to help the Native Village of Port Lions (NVPL) Tribal Library certified as a LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) eligible entity. Being LSTA eligible also makes the library E-rate...
by Jeff Garcie | Jan 12, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
My friend Alvin, who knows me from my digital inclusion work in the village of Port Lions, asked me what I thought was the best choice for an Internet plan for his family. The list of plans he showed me on his iPhone was heart breaking. The village had had high hopes...
by Jeff Garcie | Dec 6, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
My education in E-rate continued as I spoke to professionals who had worked for the FCC and state libraries where their job was to help communities work through the E-rate system. It amazed me that someone could spend an entire career working to sort through the...
