All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc. presents:

Pueblo Nations
Statewide Technology Assessment, 2002
Executive Summary

February, 2002

 

Prepared by Evans Craig, Internet Technology Service, LLC http://www.InternetTechnologyService.net evans@evanscraig.com

Executive Summary

Rachel Lopez, EDA Program Coordinator of All Indian Pueblo Council, requested a State-wide Community-based Tribal Technology Assessment and was approved by Rick Vigil, AIPC Executive Director.  The New Mexico Native American Business Development Center spearheaded the effort to have an Internet Technology Consultant, Evans Craig of Internet Technology Service, LLC to be interviewed to conduct the Statewide Technology Assessment.  The initial visit laid out the Technology Assessment process for the 19 Pueblo Tribes in three phases over twelve months: Phase 1 Onsite Assessments (Week One - Fourteen) - A statewide 19 Pueblo on-site visits on April to December, 2001 will be used to assess the community resources available. Phase 2 Technology Assessment Compilations (Week Four - Eighteen) - A system-wide technology assessment compilation on June to December, 2001 will be used to satisfy initial technology & educational grant opportunities to pool the resources of approximately 19 Pueblo Tribal Communities and the All Indian Pueblo Council in the State of New Mexico and plan a "Statewide Tribal Broadband network." Phase 3 Collaborative Website (Week Four - Twenty) - A Collaborative Website started on August, 2001 to continue until February, 2003 that connects 19 separate Pueblo websites utilizing a "Tribal Cooperative Store" model and an "Online Economic Development" model to create the community-based hubs for an "Online Pueblo e-Commerce" website.

The findings from the onsite interviews, assessments and compiled information from the Pueblos belong individually to each one of the Pueblos. So a “Secured Collaborative Website” was setup for use by the Pueblo staff & Tribal member contacts, AIPC EDA Project members, and Internet Technology Service, LLC employees. The Collaborative website is a Web-based Project Management Website with added login security for Pueblo & AIPC confidentiality. The Collaborative Website is located at: www.InternetTechnologyService.net/PuebloNations/ A login and password was provided to each Pueblo contact to give to Pueblo staff & members for reviewers to correct and add to the Tribal Technology Assessment. At this site, any Pueblo member can track the progress of the Statewide Assessments, download reports and updates, retain contact information for other Pueblos, as well as enter into another level of security, the Pueblo Nations secured websites, for individual Pueblo reports. Each Pueblo now has a completely secured Pueblo website that is available only to that Pueblos’ staff & members and contains private Pueblo information. An example secured Pueblo website is at : www.PuebloNation.com/SandiaPueblo/ another login and password is needed and can only be requested from the Sandia Pueblo Nation contact.

The All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) Today

The AIPC consists of the Governors of the 19 Pueblo Nations within the state of New Mexico. It is at this setting that the Governors of the Pueblos have the chance to collaborate together, as well as plan the future of the Pueblos together. This type of Inter-Tribal collaboration is not the norm for most Tribes throughout Indian Country today. It was in this type of collaborative spirit that AIPC submitted and was awarded a Department of Commerce – Economic Development Department (EDA) grant to develop an eCommerce website for use by the 19 Pueblo Nations.

The AIPC put out a RFP’s and a contractor was selected to work directly with each Pueblo. The spirit of the accepted proposal is to work with each Pueblo in a way to get each individual Pueblo ready to a “Have the choice” of participating in an eCommerce environment today. By conducting a Technology Assessment at each Pueblo, the Pueblo Nation would know just where they stand, technologically, in their quest for sustainability, self-governance, and sovereign rights.

Each Pueblo Nation was called on and an appointment with the Governor and/or a Tribal representative was set for Evans Craig, Internet Consultant for Internet Technology Service, LLC to conduct the onsite Tribal Technology Assessment and meet with Tribal community representatives, such as Tribal business owners and Tribal Administrative staff. Each Tribe was technologically assessed for computer savvy, network compatibility and Internet readiness. Each Tribe is a Sovereign Nation within the United Sates of America. The US Government has granted each Tribe sovereign rights, through Treaties, to self-govern their own people on their own land. It is in this spirit of sustainability, self-governance, and sovereign rights that the Tribes were technologically assessed and an individual “Tribal Technology Plan” was designed for each Tribe to flex their own sovereign rights and plan their own future. Each Tribe now has the technical documentation needed to facilitate a technology plan for their Tribe. These individual plans are the first step considered necessary to create the Statewide Plan required to facilitate an eCommerce environment for the 19 Pueblo Nations. The plans include a “Tribal Intranet Design” for use by the Pueblo to interconnect the Tribal governmental departments. (see “The Tribal Intranet Model”)

The Statewide Plan systematically creates a sustainable, self-governed, sovereign solution to providing Internet access to the Tribal Nations. Sustainability – trained AIPC staff, Pueblo members and technical contractors will maintain the statewide Internet access solution. Self-governance – AIPC staff and Pueblo members will establish a governing board for technological solutions and economic development to be self-determined by the Pueblo Nations. Sovereignty – By designing the system to reside on Pueblo lands, the Pueblo Nations can eventually own the entire system. (See “Pueblo Nations Solution.”)

The Pueblo Nations Needs Defined

Over the many past years, Pueblo Nations, like other Tribal Nations, have been working hard to create a self-sustaining, self-governed, sovereign environment for Pueblo members, both urban (city dwelling Indians) & rural (reservation bound Indians). By creating plans to utilize both the urban & rural Indian resources, each Tribe can define “How, why, when, & where” they will use the resources. Each individual Tribe has been working to supply computers (PC’s & MACs) to each of their Tribal Governmental departments, then to interconnect the computers (Local Area Network, LAN) in each department, and interconnect the Tribal departments (Wide Area Network, WAN), as well as supply an outside connection (Internet access) to worldwide Indigenous Resources. Each Tribal Nation is at some point along the technological line to high-speed Internet Access.

The process used to determine system-wide needs was a Tribal community approach:

System-Wide Needs Analysis Process

The process used to determine system-wide needs was a Tribal community approach:

1.      The Tribal & community representatives were interviewed,

2.      The sites were assessed for available technology,

3.      The initial Tribal assessment can be used for a technology grant to gain initial funding for use on a “Statewide Tribal Broadband Network,” with AIPC’s Pueblo Nations.

4.      The final Tribal Technology Assessment can be utilized to create a Technology Plan that supports the Tribes’ Strategic Plan.

This led to the following needs being identified:

Current Community-Wide Needs	Future Community-Wide Needs
·        Tribal Information Systems (IS) Department ·        Tribal Networking Technology ·        Tribal Collaborative Technology ·        Tribal Resource Management ·        Higher Education via Distance Education (DQ Online School) ·        Shared Information & Resources ·        Training & Implementers ·        Common Integrated Technology Plans	·        Tribal Technological Self Sufficiency ·        Local Control over Community Systems ·        Tribal Networking, Web, & Online Technologies (sustainability & self sufficiency) ·        Community-Wide Strategic Plan (Currently in the process at most Tribes.) ·        Telemedicine facilities ·        eMarketing capabilities ·        eCommerce capabilities

The Pueblo Nations

The All Indian Pueblo Council consists of nineteen separate Pueblo Nations:

Pueblo of Acoma Governor: Cyrus J. Chino, Tribal Office: (505) 552-6604, Fax (505) 552-7204 MIS Contact: Rosemary Nieto, 552-6659 or 9874 Location: 52 miles west of Albuquerque on I-40. Take exit 108, then south 12 miles on CR 12A.	Pueblo of Cochiti Governor: Regis Pecos Tribal Office: (505) 465-0234, Fax (505) 465-1135 MIS Contact: Lee Suina Location: 33 miles north of Albuquerque on I-25. Take exit 259, then north 14 miles on NM 22
Pueblo of Isleta Governor: Alvino Lucero Tribal Office: (505) 869-3111, Fax (505) 869-4236 MIS Contact: Terry Honeycut Location: 12 miles south of Albuquerque on I-25. Take exit 213, then south 2 miles on NM 314 to the junction with NM 147, 1 mile south on NM 147.	Pueblo of Jemez Governor: Joe V. Cajero Tribal Office: (505) 834-7359, Fax (505) 834-7331 MIS Contact: Vincent Toya Location: 16 miles north of Albuquerque on I-25. Take exit 242, then northwest 25 miles on NM 44, junction with NM 4 at San Ysidro, 4 miles northeast on NM 4.
Pueblo of Laguna Governor: Harry Early Tribal Office: (505) 552-6654, Fax (505) 552-6941 MIS Contact: Sherry Kye Location: 46 miles west of Albuquerque on I-40. Take exit 114, then west 1 mile on NM 124.	Pueblo of Nambe Governor: David A. Perez Tribal Office: (505) 455-2036, Fax (505) 455-2038 MIS Contact: Location: From Albuquerque, take I-25 north to Santa Fe, 84/285 north of Santa Fe 16 miles, junction with NM 503 north of Pojoaque, east 2 miles on NM 503.
Pueblo of Picuris Governor: Clarence Chile Tribal Office: (505) 587-2519, Fax (505) 587-1071 MIS Contact: Location: From Albuquerque, take I-25 north to Santa Fe, 84/285 north of Santa Fe 24.3 miles, junction with NM 68 in Española, 20 miles north on NM 68, junction with NM 75 in the vicinity of Dixon, 13 miles east on NM 75.	Pueblo of Pojoaque Governor: Jacob Viarrial Tribal Office: (505) 455-2054, Fax (505) 455-2950 MIS Contact: Location: From Albuquerque, take I-25 north to Santa Fe, 84/285 north of Santa Fe 15 miles.