Sai Huda compliance Coach: online education to corporations on how to comply with laws IT or Social Science Research? Is "Applications" R and D? National R and D needs to incorporate requirements of Tribal Colleges What is a vision,what is a condition and what is a strategy Is there any IT R and D specificity in ddiscussion Could apply to a project to irrigate and improve farming practices conditions Trust Understanding of outcomes/needs assesment Mechanism for communication Necessary human and dollar resources Relationships Education Pipeline Success story mechanism Others Economic Development Preserve Sovereignty and cultural integrity Education energy/information infrastructure Big T versus IT -- IT prepares other T (T is Technology) Knowledge Infrastructure -- local and global Medicine Online supercomputers Global e-commerce What can tribes offer the world College Presidents were not very IT specific Each College Needs IT "Initiative" Are their students interested in IT? Do we need K-12 IT enrichment to bridge "digital divide" IT male dominated!!!!! ( why stocks crashing) Tribes small number of people compared to China Is there a 10 year window? IT moves in 2 year spurts Closed system should become open subjest to sovereignty IT Process Curriculum and Infrastructure 3 Conditions Trust Communication Resources (human, dollars) Tribal Collaboratory Electronic Community Portal, Digital Library Synchronous Asynchronous Wisdom of Elders; 3D views of artifacts; Indian language Infrastructure -- networking driven by "young excited in IT" Young Excited in IT Requires education and infrastructure Requires family support Virtual versus Geographic Tribe Often Funding gets ahead of Strategy Twist: Worried about Virtual Tribe State passively -- Technology enables possibility Don't state possibility will happen! A lot of interest in "universal access" Elders different from GCF etc. ----------------------------- Town Meeting -------------------------- Funding 45000 Foundations in Country Diverse ..... Geography an asset, education, investment capital, reform tribal governance Infrastructure Backbone Flexible and Predictable Regulation Culturally and Community oriented Develop tribal expertise money International Meta cultural technology International culture digital library International Prosperity games ... Funding -- Tribal business Infrastructure Legislation and Policy What changes needed in laws Build infrastructure -- use AHEC Leadership Regulation changes Public Sustainable Stable Funding More Business TCU IT Workforce Education R and D Open System -- Tribal Collaboratory Human and Financial Resources Special Interests Effective Governance Populate last mile Establish self sustaining insitutions State and Local Government Encourage others to spend money Have agreements Technology Providers Better relationas vendors-consumers Regional Centers of Excellence at TCU's -- Tribal IT Forums TCU First was Navajo Tribal College in 1978 -- now 34 Funding Digital Parity TCU/Tribe collaboration State Recognition Lead Instituion in new initiatives Maintain our unique mission Tribes -- 550 in all Infrastructure 100% penetration AIHEC leadership in education Funding and ownership of IT ------------------------------------------------------------ Learner Motivation Key to distance education IT Collaboratory versus Tribal Collaboratory Training and Education Collaboratory Want a 2 year and 10 year vision Do Tribal Colleges do good research Controversial Flagship Center of Excellence (how you had to do it yesterday) versus Virtual Center of Excellence Global Training -------------------------------------------------------------- Software Support of Circle Methodology ********************** New version of Textcube ************************************* "objects" Assets Vision.Condition.Strategy.Action --- Vision is root "model" Need Pool (desk-top) of candidates that can be dragged into hierarchy Desktop has windows for the four categories which can be re-arranged (icons which expand) eroom MOO's etc.