The Internet Society offered two pre-Summit trainings: Policy and Advocacy, and Community Networks. These six-week courses consisted of one 90-minute webinar per week beginning Tuesday, 1 September and concluding the week of 5 October. These programs are, respectively, designed to prepare passionate leaders to advocate for and articulate the digital policy needs of Indigenous communities around the region and learn to build connectivity solutions that meet the needs of their communities.
The agenda for each week is below:
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Week 1: |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Stories of success in the time of COVID-19 |
| Community Networks Training: Community Networks 101 | |
| Week 2: 7-11 September 2020 |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Looking back and looking forward |
| Community Networks Training: The Community of Networking | |
| Week 3: 14-18 September 2020 |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Becoming an advocate and community consultations |
| Community Networks Training: The business of a community network | |
| Week 4: 21-25 September 2020 |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Becoming an advocate in your community for funding |
| Community Networks Training: What it’s like to build and sustain a network | |
| Week 5: 28 September-2 October 2020 |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Role of existing rules and laws |
| Community Networks Training: Trouble shooting and security | |
| Week 6: 5-7 October 2020 |
Policy and Advocacy Training: Building the policy recommendations |
| Community Networks Training: Stories of success |
Find the recordings and resources of this year’s trainings: