Policy & Advocacy Training Webinar

Agenda

Resources:

• Broadband 101: The basics of terminology (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
• Diplo’s Internet Governance Acronym Glossary (Diplo, Internet Society, Geneva Internet Platform)
• Five Lessons for Tech Powered Civic Engagement (Next Century Cities, Benton)
• Nunavik gets funding to launch work on its high-speed internet network (Nunatsiatq News)

Resources:

• Office of the Auditor General of Canada’s Report on Connectivity in Remote & Rural Areas (Office of the Auditor General of Canada)
• Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed (Ottawa Citizen)
• Organizing For a Community Network, Against Big Cable (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
• First Mile Connectivity Consortium Call for Comments: Barriers to Broadband Deployment (by Rob McMahon, First Mile Connectivity Consortium)
• A “Whole Community” Approach for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure in Remote and Northern First Nations (Northern Public Affairs)
• Canada’s Univeral Broadband Fund: Building the new program together (Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Government of Canada)
• Internet Exchange Points: An Essential Infrastructure for Rural Broadband Initiatives (The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California)
• The Adversarial Divide (Sally Braun, Western James Bay Telecom Network)
• Article on sustainable data centers (Nature Research Journal)
• Article on sustainability, green energy & data centers (CBC News)
• Digital Reservations Act (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren- Native News Online)
  – Bill text (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren)
  – One-pager (Rep. Deb Haaland and Sen. Elizabeth Warren)
• ​Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act (Senator Tom Udall)
  – Bill text (Senators Tom Udall, Maria Cantwell, and Martin Heinrich)
• Tribal Technology Assessment Study (American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University)
  – Fact Sheet (American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University)

Resources:

• ILSR report (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
  The report details how local governments provided seed funding for a co-op, but the key issues I want to share from it are about the need to keep working despite setbacks and the ways they formed a marketing committee to educate the community.
• 2.5GHz Rural Tribal Priority Window LTE Networks and 2.5GHz Spectrum Channels (AMERIND, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association, Google American Indian Network)
• Tribes Connecting Tribes (AMERIND)
• Community Engagement for Broadband Planning (Next Century Cities)
• What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community (Broadband Communities)

Resources:

• 2-pager on types of social finance (Nonprofit Finance Fund)
• a. “What is a community bond anyways?” (Future of Good)
  b. Short version without sign-up wall (Future of Good)
• Broadband Fund Overview Document (First Mile)
• Federal Programs to Support Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure in the United States (Next Century Cities)

Resources:

• How to submit comments to the FCC (Next Century Cities)
• Rules of 501(c)(3) lobbying (National Association for the Education of Young Children)
• ISED Resources for broadband access (Government of Canada; Innovation, Science, and Economic Development)
• The Federal Communications Commission: Current Structure and Its Role in the Changing Telecommunications Landscape
• Commercial Broadband Satellites & The U.S. Regulatory Framework (presentation by Jim Schlichting, FCC)
• FCC Overview (presentation)
• Introduction to the CRTC (presentation)

Resources:

• 2019 ICS Policy Recommendations 
• 2018 ICS Policy Recommendations
• Local Opinion: FCC, UA could do more to allow tribes spectrum rights be recognized (by Darrah Blackwater, published on Tucson.com)