Native Public Media Creates and Implements First Branded Digital Journalism Curriculum for Native Americans, Flagstaff, Arizona - January 23, 2012
Native Public Media, an organization dedicated to serving Native radio broadcasters and media makers, announced it will launch its Digital Journalism and Storytelling Intensive on May 28, 2012.
Flagstaff, AZ, October 13, 2011 – Matthew Rantanen will lead the national Native American organization, Native Public Media, as Chairman of the Board. Native Public Media is the only organization dedicated to providing service to the Native media network as well as providing a policy program directed at changing the broadcast and telecommunications landscape in the United States that is home to 565 federally recognized Tribes.
This video contains footage from TDV's offices, wireless-broadband internet towers, and the Pala Learning Center. TDV is ZeroDivide's partner in BTOP's "Broadband Adoption Program" that is designed to increase broadband awareness and adoption on tribal lands. http://youtu.be/OMjMC8odwRU
White Spaces Spectrum is going to finally be released to use for unlicensed. The Unanimous vote (5-0) in 2008 got the ball rolling with all of our hard efforts, and now another vote on how to govern the spectrum is pretty much a victory. It lets us use this invaluable airspace to get Internet to tribal homes in remote, geographically impossible to reach situations.
07-14-11
Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide in San Diego County, BTOP (Broadband Technology Opportunities Program), which is part of the federal economic stimulus package adopted in 2009. In Southern California, the Tribal Digital Village is working with ZeroDivide, the San Francisco-based technology foundation, and using BTOP funding to promote awareness and adoption of broadband in the tribal areas of San Diego County.
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The TDV project seeks to address the fact that only 5-8% of Native Americans living on tribal lands have residential broadband access. Geographic isolation and cultural differences make tribal communities especially vulnerable to disparities in broadband adoption and deployment.
To learn more check out www.zerodivide.org/blog/tim/zd_btop_mashup_cutup_smashup
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