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 Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
This is Bambi pictured in the Pawnee Nation Tribal College computer lab. Bambi teaches community GED computer classes here. Three of the computers in the lab had quit connecting to the internet. Thanks to donated desktops the computer lab is working at full...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Kialegee Tribal Town Tribal Library had one older desktop for public access. Thanks to our donor to the project we were able to place five. Three in the library area and two for the GED program. The new computers are a way of giving extra access for computer...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Max Tricky pictured is Treasurer of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town. He worked on all the permissions needed to place donated computers in the library. Our project requires that a form be signed and that the equipment belongs to the Tribe and becomes their sole...
