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A Statewide Strategy for Hawaiian Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion
for Vulnerable Populations
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Preface:

Today, 54 million people in the United States live with some type of disability. It is no surprise they have the highest unemployment rate, the highest poverty rate and the highest social isolation barriers to overcome, and the greatest potential for benefiting from broadband.

The promise of Broadband is for everyone to connect to something life-changing, empowering, motivating, and meaningful; collaborating as global citizens. The potential is “Everyone Both Learner and Teacher, both Consumer and Producer.”

Proposed Program Abstract
The Hawaii Centers for Independent Living, (HCIL,) and partners will drive broadband adoption by seniors and individuals with disabilities by engineering a Hawaiian digital literacy and digital inclusion broadband awareness and adoption campaign with combination of TV and Internet video awareness programming and a social media peer-mentoring online skills self-actualization program.

Your life is a gift from the Creator. What you do with it is your gift back to the Creator.
Broadband Basics Training includes global citizenship core values which reflect the Native Hawaiian values of stewardship of the Earth, and of prioritizing the needs of family and community through social enterprises demonstrating the Native Hawaiian spirit as a values-based model for the global community.

Native Hawaiian Broadband Adoption Best Practices:
Hawaii has the opportunity to pilot a demonstration project leveraging the existing Lone Eagle online curriculum and resources based on 25 years innovating with online instruction or rural, remote and indigenous Internet learners. Short resume and existing online curriculum: http://lone-eagles.com/expertise.htm Note the FCC Indians web site links to Lone Eagle’s Broadband Training Best Practices Clearinghouse as the only such site linked to any federal agency’s website.

HCIL has unique expertise to serve a grassroots outreach role engaging many citizens in purposeful learning and action creating value using broadband social media, both as volunteers and as for-profit service providers.

Background: A Hawaiian Showcase for the Nation

HCIL’s Online Training Partner, Frank Odasz, president of Lone Eagle Consulting, has formally advised the ARRA Rural Broadband Stimulus program on the following recommendations which have been adopted by the FCC as reflected in the National Broadband Plan and the “ Strategies to Increase Broadband Adoption and Use” article below.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296733A1.doc

The following specific recommendations are to create:

Broadband Outreach Campaigns for Awareness and Adoption

A Broadband Best Practices Clearinghouse

An Online Skills Portal with self-directed online lessons customized for specific vulnerable populations

Targeted support for seniors and individuals with disabilitie

A Digital Literacy Corps for local volunteer peer mentoring digital literacy programs

The National Broadband Plan was released March 17th
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan
This plan has extensive recommendations related to digital literacy and inclusion for vulnerable populations; individuals with disabilities, seniors, low income and Native Hawaiians, etc.

Innovative Program Elements
1. Create a statewide broadband awareness campaign video series to address broadband best practices for specific vulnerable populations on why Broadband has become essential, and to promote disabilities awareness. Implement an Independence broadband awareness and adoption video series campaign for individuals with disabilities and seniors using TV and Internet.

2. Create the Hawaiian Broadband Training Best Practices Clearinghouse – as an online clearinghouse focused on broadband training best practices with a statewide Hawaiian Digital Inclusion program. Demonstrating via an online video clearinghouse the broadband best practices for home telecare, personal assistance services, and related services.

http://lone-eagles.com/maui-center.htm

3. Digital Literacy Corps:
Implement a Hawaiian Peer Mentoring Program Leveraging Social Media
Focusing on broadband best practices for individuals with disabilities, seniors, and Native Hawaiians as a broadband adoption program, linking those who wish to mentor with those who need mentors. Motivational strategies for participation will include posting personal and cultural histories online as digital storytelling, and social recognition for successful mentoring.

4. Deliver a 21^st Century Workforce Basics online course customized for specific vulnerable populations. Designed as an 8 week short course for those unfamiliar with Internet and E-learning, the course will create ongoing participation in solutions sharing and peer mentoring using social media. This course was created in 2009 for Alaskan Native at-risk youth funded by the Alaska Department of Labor The 21^st Century Learn, Earn, and Serve Academy
http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm

5. Training citizen video journalists, starting with Maui Wheelers, will establish a new regional peer news and peer mentorship community education model. Maui Community TV www.akaku.org will be the training and broadcast partner.