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 Nicole Umayam | Dec 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
So far, we’ve facilitated three of the six broadband toolkit site assessments in Arizona as part of Internet2’s “Toward Gigabit Libraries” pilot program (I wrote about the pilot program in an earlier post). The first two were facilitated by James Werle of Internet2...
by Jeff Garcie | Oct 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The indigenous people of the Americas are no strangers to innovation and utilizing available resources to better their lives. You can see, in the pottery of the Southwest, how ideas were being shared and improved over time. I think that is why the 2017 International...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 25, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The highlight of teaching elders is never knowing quite what to expect. I sat between two gentlemen, one who was the first to have signed up for the class. He is extremely sky, soft spoken and says few words. When he first signed up his friends had told me rather...