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Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Technology Assessment Danny Tucker, Vice Chairman of the Sycuan Band of The Kumeyaay Nation and Shirley Murphy, Director of D-Q University at Sycuan, requested a Tribal Community Technology Assessment. The Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association (SCTCA) applied for and was awarded a Hewlett Packard Digital Village Grant to create a "Tribal Digital Village," a digital community encompassing 18 American Indian reservations in the San Diego and southern Riverside counties. Jack Ward, Director of Human Resources of SCTCA, spearheaded the effort to have an Internet Technology Consultant, Evans Craig of Internet Technology Service, LLC to be interviewed to conduct the Regional Southern California Technology Assessment. The initial visit laid out the Technology Assessment process for the 18 member Tribes of SCTCA in three phases over twelve months and an alternate process of Technology Assessments per Indian reservation: The following process is for a single Tribal Community over 3 months:
For complimentary research, see "Wireless/Satellite Internet Access Connection & Community-wide Node Models - Creating the Pathway to a New Statewide Wireless Tribal Broadband Network" at http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/New StatewideWirelessTribalBroadbandNetwork2.html Tribal Digital Village - Vision and Principles of Community The tribal communities in the San Diego region are separated by geographic location from useful resources and from each other. The time and effort required to overcome these distances could be better used to strengthen family and community ties. In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, the Digital Village Grant will create a distributed tribal digital community that mirrors and amplifies the community and kinship networks that have historically sustained tribal communities in the San Diego region. We will use new technologies to enable existing and new tribal, community, and educational initiatives, partnerships, and programs to achieve a more efficient use of current resources and become more effective in meeting their own goals and objectives. Connecting reservation lands digitally will promote richer interaction and collaboration among tribal members. The project will also allow educational training and cultural activities to transcend geographical separation.
• All Tribal Digital Village project components will involve tribal members and tribal community members. • Tribal Digital Village project components will be cleared with the appropriate tribal governments). • Tribal Digital Village project decisions will emerge from discussion and consensus rather argument and competition. The Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association consists of eighteen separate reservation member bands of The Kumeyaay Nations. The two Tribes that will be looked at for the overall ‘Distance Education’ capabilities are: Chairman: Georgia Tucker Chairman: Ralph Goff A Sycuan Band of The Kumeyaay Nation Technology Assessment of the Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Associations’ Tribal Digital Village Systems would consist of the Sycuan Band of The Kumeyaay Nations’ Reservation in Southern California within the Sycuan Reservation to identify educational and business opportunities to remote reservation locations. Presentation made on March 19, 2001: News Announcement via Steering Committee meeting on April 24, 2001:Presentation made on August 2, 2001: Initial Proposal / Introductions made on August 20, 2001: This assessment identified the current resources available to speed the implementation of having all The Kumeyaay Nation members become technologically literate, with reading, math, science, and other core academic skills that are essential for success in the 21st century. It will also suggest options available to identify needed resources to connect The Kumeyaay Nation leaders, administrators, teachers and Tribal members to work together, link members to careers, colleges, and community resources to provide lifetime learning opportunities anytime, as well as after school and during the summer. It will also identify the resources available and needed to co-locate on the TDV’s "Southern California Tribal Wireless Broadband Network." Identification of statewide resources available to all tribes (e.g. SCTCA, UCSD, SDSU, etc…) as well as affected Tribes will have to occur simultaneously. So the Organizational Assessment on SCTCA should be done prior to any of the Tribes Assessments. The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nations’ Technology Assessment will identify the current local resources, as well as future resources needed to create "DQ – Distance Education" capabilities.
Compilation of Technology Assessment ONE SITE 3-5 DAYS (1 WEEK TOTAL) Presentation of Results:
ONE WEBSITE 5 DAYS (1 WEEKS TOTAL) Our solution is to demonstrate the incorporation of these Tribal businesses and entities by using a "Native Community Economic Development Model," to utilize a "Tribal TeleCommunity Network Model," designed and implement on the TDV’s "Wireless Tribal Backbone Network." This model can then be applied to the other 350+ Tribal Nations (communities) across the US. This Tribal Community Network Archetype can be used as Tribal Intranet Nodes on the termination's of all the existing and future access points on the Southern California Tribal Digital Village: The 18 Mission Bands, State of California Universities, as well as other Tribal Native enterprises & businesses. The Tribal Digital Village’ Tribal Communities are located in the State of California. California is the home of 300+ different Tribes. The Southern California Tribal Community will be able to demonstrate the best ways to:
The approach taken is to work in 3 phases over 2 years.
Design And Implement A ‘Standard’ Tribal Community Local Area Network / Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) Intranet Node Model The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation currently utilizes a single T1 connection, distributed to the Tribal offices with Spread Spectrum Microwave links. The Sycuan Casino MIS Department manages the Tribal network, which consists of The Sycuan Casino Network, the Sycuan Tribal Administration Network, and the DQ University @ Sycuan & Fire Networks. One T1 can be used for Internet access through BIA/DOInet and KBand Satellite T1 access through AIHEC Satellite Network can be used for an Interactive Video Network. A Local Area Network is currently in place at the Vocational Rehabilitation / DQ University @Sycuan to serve the students and staff of Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. The Secondary School networks needs to be installed in areas and upgraded to CAT5 standards in other areas. Either a Fiber Optic cabling needs to laid to and between the buildings or more Microwave links with a combination of Wireless Spread Spectrum and Fiber Optics connections to State Schools needs to be installed to interconnect existing school buildings. Once the connections to the School’s are in, the School generates the design that is made available to the students, faculty, staff, and administration. The connections to the community will need to be approached on an individual basis to determine the design needed for the tribal community. An "Economic Development Model" (see Appendix A - Economic Development Model) will be used to address all entities involved in Native Communities, Tribes, businesses, and associations. The Economic Development Model used starts with World Wide Recognition via World Wide Web (WWW) Homepages development for generating commerce. Next, we move on to Infrastructure Development via a Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for non-existent LAN’s and an "Open Systems Methodology" for migrating existing LAN’s into a WAN. Finally, the technical training is facilitated via "Virtual Classroom" On-line Computer-Based Training (CBT) Modules, on and off-site, utilizing the Internet and microwave-based classes. The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation will use this "Economic Development Model" to facilitate the design and implementation of a Tribal Community-based Network (see Appendix A - Community / Tribal Network Model) for The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. (see Appendix A - Tribal Nation Network) The Tribal node will provide goods and services of the community to the world via a "Virtual Community Intranet" as the common interface to Tribal Community Services. Design And Implement A ‘Standard’ Tribal Community Local Area Network / Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) Node Model The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation currently utilizes a single T1 connection, distributed to the Tribal offices with Spread Spectrum Microwave links. The Sycuan Casino manages the Tribal network, which consists of The Sycuan Casino Network, the Sycuan Tribal Administration Network, and the DQ University @ Sycuan & Fire Networks. Some of the participants have a need for upgrading their current computer systems to accept a TCP/IP protocol as a common interface. Some only need computer upgrades, while some need complete LAN upgrades. A technology coordinator for the Tribal community needs to be in place. This person will identify which model will be used at each participant’s facility. Each entity will need access to a Tribal Technical Consultant to determine optimal use of existing networking strategies.
Install the Connecting Links on the Tribal Digital Village’ Regional Wireless Backbone As the participants are upgraded and/or install a LAN/WAN, the inter-community links will be installed concurrently. They will have an option of connecting to the Tribal Digital Village high-speed educational / non-profit network or to a commercial Internet Service Provider. All will need a wireless relay connection for accessing the high-speed Broadband Internet, or utilizing another Broadband source, such as COX Cable, for dialing out of their facility or a direct connection to one of the existing Internet nodes (Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation or COX Digital Cable Communications). As the connections within the community are in, each participant generates the common interface that is made available to the students, faculty, staff, and administration. The connections within the community will need to be approached on an individual basis to determine the access method needed for the community. These participants will need a feasibility and analysis study completed on the existing structures to determine the optimal design to be used. Recommendations in Using Common Technology The following recommendations are being presented to create a "Tribal TeleCommunity Network" available to Tribal members, community members, and the general public.
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