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The 'Southern California Tribal Digital Village' is a Five Million Dollar Grant awarded to the Southern California Indian tribes that are affiliated with 'Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association' by 'Hewlett Packard.' The Goal is to bridge the digital gap to the reservations by building a high-speed wireless internet backbone that will reach all of the reservations. It is also to supply equipment for the people to be used in Community Resource Centers. The Community Resource Centers will provide central locations to access the technology and to bring the people of the community together for further education, communication, cultural, and economic opportunities. The Present Tribal Digital Village: •San Diego Reservations are geographically separated from useful resources and from each other. •Distance from urban centers makes the extension of commercial high-speed internet to reservations unlikely. •Small and distant communities require increased time and resources to sustain tribal family and community networks. The Tribal Digital Village Vision: •Connect the Reservations in San Diego County to a high-speed internet backbone. -Use Internet connections recently installed at Pala, La Jolla, and Rincon Educational Centers as a model. •Work with each Tribe to design and deploy a working solution within 9 months. -Build a network within each Reservation for internet access and provide the local knowledge to use it. •Use the internet to build communities of interest among Tribal members in ways that resemble family and community networks. Planning Tribal Digital Village: •Team presents Tribal Digital Village Concepts to each Tribal General Council. •Team asks how to proceed. •Tribes establish goals and priorities with Tribal Digital Village support. •Team, Hewlett Packard, and Tribe work together to find solutions to achieve goals. •Result: Tribal based Digital Village plans. This grant is unusual in that, after the grant was awarded, we must develop the detail of our plan with Hewlett-Packard. The over-all Budget is Five Million Dollars for three years. There are only 3 digital village HP Grants and the Tribal Digital Village is the only American Indian and rural grant. The Grant began March, 2001. The first phase is called "quick start" and is meant to get the basic ideas of the project going in a small way in each of the 18 tribes. There is $500,000 allocated to the. At least 75% is to be in the form of HP equipment. Generally the rule for the entire grant. There are three "quick start" areas to be addressed: 1.) Installing the first stage of a high speed internet connection to the participating tribes 2.) Obtaining computers for each tribe to be used for the Digital Project. 3.) Starting or assisting existing key projects to use on the internet. The key projects fall into three areas: a.) Educational b.) Cultural c.) Economic During the 6-9 Months of the "quick start" or 1st phase, we are to design, pan and budget for the 2nd phase of the grant will be developed based on what happens during the 2nd phase and will be used to finish or correct anything that needs to be done after the 2nd phase experience. The Grant is unusual in that HP has assigned a full-time senior, top level, Administrator to work with us fulltime to make this program work. Start-Up Team: •Ross Frank of UCSD the main author of the grant •Jack Ward, Director from SCTCA •Lorraine Orosco, from SCTCA Education •Mia Toscano, from SCTCA •Sukumar, the assigned administrator from HP •Betty Sproule, the HP Foundation Manager None of these people were being paid from the Grant. This team has weekly planning meetings, face-to-face and via conference call. Other Items: UCSD has agreed to host our initial high speed internet connection at no cost until we build our own Network, including housing and maintaining our Web Server. Our long term goal is that the 18 Tribes affiliated with SCTCA will own and control their own High Speed Internet Connection. Hans-Werner Braun and Kim Bruch of the UCSD Super Computer Center HPWREN NSF project have agreed, at no cost, to advise us in our initial installations of a wireless high speed connection similar to what their project installed, as a model fo us at Pala, Rincon and La Jolla reservations. •We will form a backbone team of technicians, engineers and installers to advise, plan and install the first phase wireless antennas on the mountain tops. •Each Tribe's Digital Village Representative will be asked to help find locations on the tribal land for placing antennas. •We will have a program available to go to each tribal council or community meeting to explain the project. If need be, we are available to assist in the planning stages with each community to advise in the developing process of the Digital Village plan. •Our goal is for the Tribes and the community to become self-sufficient in sustaining this project for themselves Community and Youth Academy: There will be a Wireless Backbone Survey and Computer Usage Academy this summer. We will form a team from each Tribe with an adult leader and 3-6 youth. Their paid jobs will be to survey their tribe and antenna relay sites on the mountains by using GPS and computer terrain mapping. In addition they will be documenting the process via internet, digital video and digital stills. This will be two months of employment and training (and climbing) for Tribal youth and Tribal adult members. Master Team #1-Infrastructure: •Design and build the internet backbone. •Plan and deliver "last mile" solutions within each Reservation. •Provide Tribal Internet service. •Training for local knowledge and ownership. •Wireless may be only part of the solution, but it is the base from which we'll start. Master Team #2-Culture: •Enable existing and new efforts within Tribes. •Coordinate efforts among tribes. •Web-based tools for language, teaching and preservation. •Classes delivered to multiple locations over the internet. •Tribal access to historical audio-visual files such as photographs, songs and spoken language. •Collection of additional cultural material / digital storytelling. Master Team #3-Education: •Equip and connect tribal education centers. •Develop distance education between tribal programs and educational partners. •Web-based tools for tutoring and mentoring over the internet. •Classes delivered to multiple locations over the internet. Master Team #4-Community: •Rez-Mail: eMail and eCards for easier tribal and inter-tribal communication. •Web-based delivery of tribal services. •Community calendar of events... •Applications, forms, tribal records... Master Team #5-Economic Development: •Web-based Job training classes. •E-Commerce •Internet-enabled small-business development •Investigation of micro-loan programs Managing Tribal Digital Village: Steering Committee: •All Partners and General Membership Executive Committee: •Guides Project •Ratifies Implementation plans... Executive Committee Membership:(8-15 members) •Tribal Elders •Tribal Chairs •SCTCA •UCSD •Other College/University Partners •School Districts •Tribal Health Centers
The Present Tribal Digital Village: •San Diego Reservations are geographically separated from useful resources and from each other. •Distance from urban centers makes the extension of commercial high-speed internet to reservations unlikely. •Small and distant communities require increased time and resources to sustain tribal family and community networks.
The Tribal Digital Village Vision: •Connect the Reservations in San Diego County to a high-speed internet backbone. -Use Internet connections recently installed at Pala, La Jolla, and Rincon Educational Centers as a model. •Work with each Tribe to design and deploy a working solution within 9 months. -Build a network within each Reservation for internet access and provide the local knowledge to use it. •Use the internet to build communities of interest among Tribal members in ways that resemble family and community networks.
Planning Tribal Digital Village: •Team presents Tribal Digital Village Concepts to each Tribal General Council. •Team asks how to proceed. •Tribes establish goals and priorities with Tribal Digital Village support. •Team, Hewlett Packard, and Tribe work together to find solutions to achieve goals. •Result: Tribal based Digital Village plans.
This grant is unusual in that, after the grant was awarded, we must develop the detail of our plan with Hewlett-Packard. The over-all Budget is Five Million Dollars for three years. There are only 3 digital village HP Grants and the Tribal Digital Village is the only American Indian and rural grant. The Grant began March, 2001.
The first phase is called "quick start" and is meant to get the basic ideas of the project going in a small way in each of the 18 tribes. There is $500,000 allocated to the. At least 75% is to be in the form of HP equipment. Generally the rule for the entire grant.
There are three "quick start" areas to be addressed: 1.) Installing the first stage of a high speed internet connection to the participating tribes 2.) Obtaining computers for each tribe to be used for the Digital Project. 3.) Starting or assisting existing key projects to use on the internet. The key projects fall into three areas: a.) Educational b.) Cultural c.) Economic
During the 6-9 Months of the "quick start" or 1st phase, we are to design, pan and budget for the 2nd phase of the grant will be developed based on what happens during the 2nd phase and will be used to finish or correct anything that needs to be done after the 2nd phase experience.
The Grant is unusual in that HP has assigned a full-time senior, top level, Administrator to work with us fulltime to make this program work.
Start-Up Team: •Ross Frank of UCSD the main author of the grant •Jack Ward, Director from SCTCA •Lorraine Orosco, from SCTCA Education •Mia Toscano, from SCTCA •Sukumar, the assigned administrator from HP •Betty Sproule, the HP Foundation Manager None of these people were being paid from the Grant. This team has weekly planning meetings, face-to-face and via conference call.
Other Items: UCSD has agreed to host our initial high speed internet connection at no cost until we build our own Network, including housing and maintaining our Web Server.
Our long term goal is that the 18 Tribes affiliated with SCTCA will own and control their own High Speed Internet Connection. Hans-Werner Braun and Kim Bruch of the UCSD Super Computer Center HPWREN NSF project have agreed, at no cost, to advise us in our initial installations of a wireless high speed connection similar to what their project installed, as a model fo us at Pala, Rincon and La Jolla reservations.
•We will form a backbone team of technicians, engineers and installers to advise, plan and install the first phase wireless antennas on the mountain tops. •Each Tribe's Digital Village Representative will be asked to help find locations on the tribal land for placing antennas. •We will have a program available to go to each tribal council or community meeting to explain the project. If need be, we are available to assist in the planning stages with each community to advise in the developing process of the Digital Village plan. •Our goal is for the Tribes and the community to become self-sufficient in sustaining this project for themselves
Community and Youth Academy: There will be a Wireless Backbone Survey and Computer Usage Academy this summer. We will form a team from each Tribe with an adult leader and 3-6 youth. Their paid jobs will be to survey their tribe and antenna relay sites on the mountains by using GPS and computer terrain mapping.
In addition they will be documenting the process via internet, digital video and digital stills. This will be two months of employment and training (and climbing) for Tribal youth and Tribal adult members.
Master Team #1-Infrastructure: •Design and build the internet backbone. •Plan and deliver "last mile" solutions within each Reservation. •Provide Tribal Internet service. •Training for local knowledge and ownership. •Wireless may be only part of the solution, but it is the base from which we'll start.
Master Team #2-Culture: •Enable existing and new efforts within Tribes. •Coordinate efforts among tribes. •Web-based tools for language, teaching and preservation. •Classes delivered to multiple locations over the internet. •Tribal access to historical audio-visual files such as photographs, songs and spoken language. •Collection of additional cultural material / digital storytelling.
Master Team #3-Education: •Equip and connect tribal education centers. •Develop distance education between tribal programs and educational partners. •Web-based tools for tutoring and mentoring over the internet. •Classes delivered to multiple locations over the internet.
Master Team #4-Community: •Rez-Mail: eMail and eCards for easier tribal and inter-tribal communication. •Web-based delivery of tribal services. •Community calendar of events... •Applications, forms, tribal records...
Master Team #5-Economic Development: •Web-based Job training classes. •E-Commerce •Internet-enabled small-business development •Investigation of micro-loan programs
Managing Tribal Digital Village: Steering Committee: •All Partners and General Membership
Executive Committee: •Guides Project •Ratifies Implementation plans...
Executive Committee Membership:(8-15 members) •Tribal Elders •Tribal Chairs •SCTCA •UCSD •Other College/University Partners •School Districts •Tribal Health Centers
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