by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 20, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Monday was a wonderful way to start the week off, creating a media lab for the elders in the Title VI building at the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Complex. Title VI is the program with Native American tribes that offer programs for their elders age 55 and above including...
by Nicole Umayam | Sep 15, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Last week I attended the second day of the 2017 Arizona Indian Education Stakeholders Summit, held at the We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Reservation. The conference brought together educators, administrators, curriculum specialists,...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 12, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Pershing Yeahquo, Kiowa, is the Veterans Outreach director and it has been a slow process but all worth it, when it all finally comes together. In a tribal community, it takes the business committee or tribal leadership approval and sometimes these people can be in...
by Nicole Umayam | Aug 17, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Without a doubt, public libraries help build digitally inclusive communities in key areas, yet many tribal and rural libraries cannot offer these same services for their communities due to a variety of barriers related to the digital divide. This month I tagged along...
by Jeff Garcie | Aug 15, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska is working to connect its audience to the Internet. It may seem out of the scope of work for a museum focused on the preservation of culture but, digital inclusion supports cultural survival. In the Kodiak Archipelago, Native...