Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2020
Policy & Advocacy Training Webinar
Agenda
Week 1: Stories of success in the time of COVID-19
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 3:00pm ET / 12:00pm PT / 9:00am HT
Resources:
- Broadband 101: The basics of terminology (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
- Diplo’s Internet Governance Acronym Glossary (Diplo, Internet Society, Geneva Internet Platform)
- Five Lessons for Tech Powered Civic Engagement (Next Century Cities, Benton)
- Nunavik gets funding to launch work on its high-speed internet network (Nunatsiatq News)
Week 2: Looking back and looking forward
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Dr. Rob McMahon
Associate Professor, University of Alberta; Master of Arts in Communication and Technology (MACT) and Master of Arts in Community Engagement (MACE)
Resources:
- Office of the Auditor General of Canada’s Report on Connectivity in Remote & Rural Areas (Office of the Auditor General of Canada)
- Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed (Ottawa Citizen)
- Organizing For a Community Network, Against Big Cable (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
- First Mile Connectivity Consortium Call for Comments: Barriers to Broadband Deployment (by Rob McMahon, First Mile Connectivity Consortium)
- A “Whole Community” Approach for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure in Remote and Northern First Nations (Northern Public Affairs)
- Canada’s Univeral Broadband Fund: Building the new program together (Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Government of Canada)
- Internet Exchange Points: An Essential Infrastructure for Rural Broadband Initiatives (The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California)
- The Adversarial Divide (Sally Braun, Western James Bay Telecom Network)
- Article on sustainable data centers (Nature Research Journal)
- Article on sustainability, green energy & data centers (CBC News)
- Digital Reservations Act (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren- Native News Online)
– Bill text (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren)
– One-pager (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren) - Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act (Senator Tom Udall)
– Bill text (Senators Tom Udall, Maria Cantwell, and Martin Heinrich) - Tribal Technology Assessment Study (American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University)
– Fact Sheet (American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University)
Week 3: Becoming an advocate and community consultations
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Resources:
- ILSR report (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
The report details how local governments provided seed funding for a co-op, but the key issues I want to share from it are about the need to keep working despite setbacks and the ways they formed a marketing committee to educate the community. - 2.5GHz Rural Tribal Priority Window LTE Networks and 2.5GHz Spectrum Channels (AMERIND, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association, Google American Indian Network)
- Tribes Connecting Tribes (AMERIND)
- Community Engagement for Broadband Planning (Next Century Cities)
- What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community (Broadband Communities)
Week 4: Becoming an advocate in your community for funding
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Resources:
- 2-pager on types of social finance (Nonprofit Finance Fund)
- a. “What is a community bond anyways?” (Future of Good)
b. Short version without sign-up wall (Future of Good) - Broadband Fund Overview Document (First Mile)
- Federal Programs to Support Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure in the United States (Next Century Cities)
Week 5: Role of existing rules and laws
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Jim Schlichting
Senior Deputy Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
Sayuri Rajapakse
Deputy Chief, Office of Native Affairs and Policy, Federal Communications Commission
Resources:
- How to submit comments to the FCC (Next Century Cities)
- Rules of 501(c)(3) lobbying (National Association for the Education of Young Children)
- ISED Resources for broadband access (Government of Canada; Innovation, Science, and Economic Development)
- The Federal Communications Commission: Current Structure and Its Role in the Changing Telecommunications Landscape
- Commercial Broadband Satellites & The U.S. Regulatory Framework (presentation by Jim Schlichting, FCC)
- FCC Overview (presentation)
- Introduction to the CRTC (presentation)
Week 6: Building the policy recommendations
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
(week of Indigenous Connectivity Summit)
Resources:
- 2019 ICS Policy Recommendations
- 2018 ICS Policy Recommendations
- Local Opinion: FCC, UA could do more to allow tribes spectrum rights be recognized (by Darrah Blackwater, published on Tucson.com)
Leading image: Working together with the Internet Society to learn how to use and install the Internet during the Internet Society/ Pu’uhonua O Waimanalo training session on November 14th, 2019. © Elyse Butler