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 Nicole Umayam | Jan 29, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Last week we had the first meeting of our Digital Inclusion Working Group, comprised of people in the E-Rate and Library Development divisions of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. One of the broader goals of the Digital Inclusion Corps is to...
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 | 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...
by Jeff Garcie | Dec 5, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
When I began working with NDIA, I knew that E-rate was the government subsidy that was used to help fund schools and libraries via the Universal Fund. That was basically the extent of what I knew about the program. As we looked at connectivity in Kodiak, I was...
