Field Reports
Notes from the Digital Inclusion Corps
NDIA Participates in Tribal Broadband Bootcamp in California
A couple weeks ago, Angela Siefer, NDIA’s executive director, and I found ourselves with hands full of sticky notes in a “zombie shelter” constructed of shipping containers on a ranch in the southern California desert. Handwritten on each sticky note was one barrier...
Computer Labs Across Oklahoma
Library Development: The Host with the Most
Note: This blog post is a modified excerpt from the Final Report. I’d like to spend my last blog post celebrating the Library Development team at the Arizona State Library. From the outset, the Library Development team immediately rose to the challenge of digital...
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 10
It’s surreal writing this as it will be my last blog for the Digital Inclusion Pilot Corps. I’m humbled to have been a part of this pilot and I’m proud of what I and my colleagues have been able to accomplish in the course of a year. That being said I want to make my...
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 9
For this second to last blog in the Discovery Lab series, I’d like to talk about where the Labs are now, and their future for Explora Currently all of our ExploraConnect Discovery Labs are still in the field, and are still collecting data. This speaks to the...
Alutiiq Online in Ouzinkie
Today, I am actually very excited to write my final blog post as a NDIA Corps Member on one of the Alutiiq Online Chromebooks from the Ouzinkie Tribal Media Center. I left my computer charger in Kodiak. With a dead computer, I am able to write and work from the...
The Connected Village of Akhiok
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...
Broadband in Ouzinkie?
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...
Thoughts on Digital Inclusion One Year Later
As we’re at the buzzer with our final reporting for this project, I wanted to share a couple of the thoughts I’ve had about doing this work. Intense engagement with digital inclusion for the past year has been transformative on many levels and I’m grateful to have...
Pawnee Nation Tribal College and Pawnee Nation Education Center
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...