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 Nicole Umayam | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
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...
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
Susan McVey, Director at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries told me once, that my donor computers where like puppies. They all found homes quickly. By the end of the grant thanks to our donor to the project almost 50 desktops computers will have been placed. I...
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...
