Rural Telecom Congress (RTC)
Click through this webtour
at
http://lone-eagles.com/austin-2016.htm
IMPORTANT NOTE:
At the end of this webtour are 3 short videos that will
challenge your creative imagination
for what you can do as 4 billion
young, mostly poor, people come online for the first time; by 2020.
Well worth the 20 minutes to view all three.
2016 Broadband Communities Magazine article
Unleashing Creativity
http://lone-eagles.com/unleashing-creativity.pdf
Rural Broadband Issues for Tribal Nations and the Developing World
**Full agenda and the Rural Program are at http://www.bbcmag.com/2016s
What are meaningful measures of broadband usage?
What are the best practices for creating measurable benefits across diverse intended audiences?
How can FTTH, wireless, smartphones, and social media be used as platforms for innovation?
Find out why “the heart of the problem is the heart of the opportunity.”
Moderator:
Frank Odasz – President, Lone Eagle Consulting, Member, RTC Board
Panelists:
Dileep Agrawal – Information Technology and Services, Katmandu, Nepal
Julia Pulidindi – Broadband Analyst, Advantage Engineers
Bill Coleman – CommunityTechnologyAdvisors.com, Consultant to Blandin Foundation
Richard Lowenberg – Founding Director, 1st-Mile Institute
Panelists Contact Info:
Speaker short bios are at http://www.bbcmag.com/2016s/pages/16speakers.php
(except for Dileep. See his summary notes at the end of this page.)
Dileep Agrawal - ISP in Katmandu, Nepal -
His five case studies will be available soon, contact Frank Odasz.
dileep@wlink.com.np
From my former student Dileep Agrawal, now an ISP in Katmandu, Nepal
Challenges and benefits of rural broadband in the Nepalese Himalayas
The contribution of broadband penetration to economic growth has been
established by numerous studies. In order to unleash these benefits,
first of all, the infrastructure must be built. Despite the challenges
of geography and power, we have been involved in extending Internet to
remote village communities in Nepal primarily using unlicensed wireless
technologies. My presentation will focus on how we are achieving this
and the immediate benefits it brings. Most of our connectivity in
rural areas is 1Mbps or less, which would not qualify as broadband in
America under FCC’s guidelines. However, this “narrowband”
connectivity is sufficient to enable Skype video conferencing, watch
educational videos, share online media, access social networking sites,
receive payments, and in general, “get connected”. I will present 5
case studies of how connectivity is being used in rural Nepal for the
betterment of the entire community.
Richard Lowenberg's Whitepaper -
The Digital Divide: A 1st-Mile Perspective
http://lone-eagles.com/RL-BBCC-RTC-2016.pdf
Richard Lowenberg
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110; 505-603-5200 cell
rl@1st-mile.com www.1st-mile.com
Bill Coleman's Powerpoint: http://lone-eagles.com/bill-coleman.pptx
Referenced by Julia Pulidindi's Powerpoint: http://lone-eagles.com/JPulidindi.pptx
The Hole in the Wall
240-401-3270 (m) | 443-367-0003 (o) | jpulidindi@advantageengineers.com | @JuliaPulidindi
Advantage Engineers | 250 10th Street, NE, #2123, Atlanta, GA 30309 | www.advantageengineers.com
The
Hole in Wall experiment in India demonstrated how kids taught
themselves how to use a computer placed in a hole in the wall.
Here's a recent 18 minute TED talk from that project founder - related
to Love of Learning, models for self-directed learning where
teachers are not affordable, and kids as the global solution.
Note: The Granny Cloud refers to Elders mentoring youth as they engage
in self-directed digital learning - simply by giving youth
encouragement and attention: Most youth need a minimum of five adult
mentors to encourage learning, and the 'the love of learning.'
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
Resources from Lone Eagle Consulting;
Hydaburg Sample Cultural Expressions Website
http://frazzoli.weebly.com
Hydaburg Flyer for Ilisagvik Tribal College Innovations Incubator:
http://lone-eagles.com/hydaburg-flyer.pdf
RTC Wiki: Twelve
Broadband Toolkits
http://innovativecommunities.pbworks.com
Austin BBC 2015 Frank’s presentation videos
Rural Innovation Diffusion and You - 12 minutes
Screencast:
http://www.screencast.com/t/kX3sz9yN
Youtube:
http://youtu.be/gcW6KMsX5PI
“The Alaska Native Innovations Incubator”
NTIA/SBI/Connect Alaska Technical
Assistance Subgrant
http://lone-eagles.com/incubator.htm
Key Lone Eagle Whitepapers
http://lone-eagles.com/digitizing-metlakatla.htm
“We’re
all in the same canoe, and we all need to learn how to paddle in the same
direction."
Last year’s learning
adventure;
Frank conducted a unique project
for NTIA and Connect Alaska for AISD in Metlakatla;
The Alaska Native
Innovations Incubator
http://lone-eagles.com/incubator.htm Teaching creative adaptation within the Alaska
Native cultural context as a model for all villages willing to learn how to
sustain themselves, culturally, socially, and economically amid accelerating
change. Within the incubator are short video tutorials to accelerate fast-track
learning; http://lone-eagles.com/what-you-can-do-too.htm
How to create a local
youth-driven innovations incubator (5 minutes)
http://www.screencast.com/t/YU15eifgqb
Most recent learning adventure, for the
Blandin Foundation which
focuses on rural broadband adoption local initiatives and more.
The First Ojibwe Digital Generation:
Reframing the Rural
Broadband Vision Based on Native Values
http://blandinonbroadband.org/2015/10/01/the-first-ojibwe-digital-generation-reframing-the-rural-broadband-vision-based-on-native-values/
All workshop creations and resources
for replication are to be shared without restriction; http://lone-eagles.com/storytelling.htm and
http://lone-eagles.com/workshop-summary.doc
Learn more about Frank’s 18 years
working with Alaska Native villages, and teaching Alaskan educators, online.
Frank's short biography and three articles with links to his Alaskan work.)
http://www.bbcmag.com/2016s/16bio/Odasz-frank.php
Role Models;
Tsimshian youth speak out - 2 minutes
Screencast
http://www.screencast.com/t/2O7Fn2GtiV
Liwaayda Canoe Society:
https://www.facebook.com/Liwaayda
Lone Eagle
Youtube Channel Videos:
www.youtube.com/fodasz
Getting Serious About Best Practices:
http://lone-eagles.com/bestpractices.doc
Recent articles for
Broadband Communities Magazine:
The Challenge for Mass Innovation
http://lone-eagles.com/mass-innovation.pdf
The Silver Tsunami
http://lone-eagles.com/silver-tsunami.pdf
Digitizing Alaska
http://lone-eagles.com/digitizing-alaska.pdf
Frank's June 2015 Broadband Opportunities Council input, is also online as a WORD doc here;
http://lone-eagles.com/BOC-RFC-Lone-Eagle-Consulting.doc 10 pages, and there is a global business model recommendation at the end.
It is the end results that matter most,
and we need an authentic grassroots T3 initiative to validate the most scalable
benefits and fast-track train-the-trainer models.
I’ve nationally published
articles on this theme, the most recent is at http://lone-eagles.com/mass-innovation.pdf
Other articles; http://lone-eagles.com/digitizing-alaska.pdf and http://lone-eagles.com/silver-tsunami.pdf
One of the most important digital skills is to be able to quickly find
the best new resources online to bring home to fuel the home fires
of local innovation on an ongoing basis.
700 web pages of resources are at http://lone-eagles.com/ - use the internal search engine to search by topic;
native, ecommerce, telework, etc.
CONTACT FRANK ODASZ;
frank@lone-eagles.com
Cell: 406 925 2519
Also, this is a wonderful 45 minute video from First Nations in BC to share broadly
and to set the stage
for the workshops;
Please view this 30
second video
Web Raising for BC
First Nations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGaDw8EqVcA
(30 seconds)
Anyone can easily create a website like this for free in just minutes at www.weebly.com -
with their app you can create and manage a website from your smartphone.
That Frank has been teaching rural teachers
online for 30+ years, is relevant to your Erate
funding goals and edtech best practices for K12, as
well as for tribal colleges.
Frank's online courses for both educators and citizens (youth workforce in
particular) are at http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm I’ve taught Alaskan educators for 17 years
online via Alaska Pacific University and the Alaska Staff Development Network.
For over 10 years I taught online for Seattle Pacific University but am
not teaching for them currently.
One of Frank's
Frank's Native and rural grant templates are
at http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm and one of his most recent grant proposals is
http://lone-eagles.com/healthy-families.htm
Frank has listed multiple Native
Innovation Centers from universities in Canada and the U.S. within
http://lone-eagles.com/digital-montessori-resources.htm
Frank has presented for an AIHEC conference in
Missoula, and wrote a paper for AIHEC; http://lone-eagles.com/aihec.htm and
one for a national Indian Vocational Education project, http://lone-eagles.com/indian-voc-ed.htm and
one for an Australian academic indigenous conference http://lone-eagles.com/village-sustainability.htm and
one related to environmental stewardship http://lone-eagles.com/nativehearts.htm
Frank has taught Office basics, computers
101, Internet 101 since 1985 as University faculty and online as an adjunct
professor.
Another recent resource are Frank's short videos showing multiple easy tools for
preserving elders stories and wisdom for all future generations;
Bio for Frank Odasz, Secretary for the Rural Telecom Congress;
http://www.bbcmag.com/2015s/15bio/Odasz-frank.php
As Secretary for the Rural Telecommunications Congress, Frank posted 9 one hour videos
from the April Rural Telecom Congress expert broadband panels in Austin, April 2015;
See the events at http://www.ruraltelecon.org/2015-rtc-bbc-summit.html
Anyone can easily create a
website like this for free in just minutes at www.weebly.com -
with their app you can create and manage a website from your smartphone.
Lone
Eagle Consulting: http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm http://lone-eagles.com/smart.htm
Frank Odasz, President, Lone Eagle Consulting
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Cell:
406 925 2519
IMPORTANT: Take 15 minutes and watch the following three videos.
www.boldbook.com has a short video at the
site that talks about amazing new opportunities.
Here’s a compelling short video:
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
http://www.boldbook.com/?orid=107716&opid=1
See how Google and Facebook plan to
bring 4 billion young people online from all over the world by 2020
using
balloons and solar-powered drones. SERIOUSLY?!
Airbus Zepher solar powered drone
microsatellites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfbEMe5a4I
Alaska Villages Initiative Rural Small Business Conference webinar video - Tech Hubs in Remote Communities
YouTube Live Stream (Public):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBuXV2jD5kk
1 1/2 hours, Frank presents the last 20 minutes but the whole event is insightful.
I Am Yup'ik - ESPN Films: 30 for 30 - ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=iamyupik
Exceptionally well done video showing cultural relevance of basketball in Alaska Native villages.