Part of the 2015 #MNBroadband Conference

1. Youth and Community Engagement – Use
of Video and Digital Storytelling
The heart of the problem is the heart of
the opportunity;
Lone Eagle Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/storytelling.htm
Frank Odasz – Lone Eagle Consulting
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Cell: 406 925 2519

2. FRANK ODASZ
 Lone Eagle Consulting; Founded 1997
 My mission since 1983; To Discover:
“What’s the best good people can learn to do
for themselves and others, online?”
 30+ years teaching educators and citizens
online
 15 years; Rural Ecommerce and Telework
Strategies – Free Simple Online Lessons
 Teaching the Innovation Process to Rural,
Remote, and Indigenous Internet Learners

3. Backyard Photo from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur

4. Big Sky Telegraph 1988-1998
“Low Cost, High Imagination”

5. Linking 100 One-Room Rural Schools
A MOOC with a Unique Certification Program
Massively Open Online Course = MOOC
Forging the online trail that others may follow

6. Blandin’s Digital Storytelling Workshop
for Native American Youth: Outcomes
 One afternoon, 7 adults, and 25 youth
 Concept, Self-directed Learning Resources, and
Outcomes – 20 websites from youth aged 10-17, 5
Ebooks, lone-eagles.com/storytelling.htm
 And awareness for how they can teach youth
globally with easy video instruction tools:
 Created cloud sharing methods, a local public
website to continue to share everyone’s digital
creations, and seeded a vision for local action.

7. The Seventh Generation Prophesy;
Native Hearts, Voices, and Choices
Stories from the First Digital Generation
The heart of the problem is the heart of
the opportunity;
Lone Eagle Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/storytelling.htm
Frank Odasz – Lone Eagle Consulting
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Cell: 406 925 2519

8. The Native and Rural Tradition
of Creative Adaptation:
Creating Intentionally Innovative Communities
 Everyone; inter-generationally, expressing,
celebrating, and preserving local Native
and/or Rural culture; both traditional and
modern,
 Preserving our cherished rural lifestyle.
 Digitally Create and Share with a global
voice, as stewards of the Earth and Sky,
and of our one human family
 Act Locally, Think Globally

9. Two Billion Online, Five to Go *by 2020

10. In Times of Change,
Learners Inherit the Earth
-Eric Fromm
Teaching the Innovation Process AS
Open-mindedness and Collaboration

11. Rural Innovation Diffusion Challenges

12. Indigenous Peoples of the Americas –
First Meeting Mexico City 2006

13. By Indigenous, For Indigenous
Sponsored by
International Telecommunications Union

14. The Indigenous ICT Commission
of the Americas
The First Meeting in Guatemala

15. Mayan Cultural Leader and
Daughter – studying Ecommerce

16. Youthful Entrepreneur

17. Cultural Priority Opportunities
Yes or No?
 Preserve elders’ wisdom and stories for all
future generations while they are still with
us
 Show everyone how to making the living
they want, living wherever they want; so
families can live and work together again.
 Celebrate and teach culture in new ways,
globally.
 Leverage your global voice as stewards of
the Earth and Sky

18. Timeless Wisdom?
 Information Condenses to Knowledge,
which Condenses to Wisdom, and Value
is Created
 Less is More; Value VS Volume
 Low Cost, High Imagination
 Real Benefits for Real People

20. EASIER TO LEARN and USE
MOBILE and PERSONAL
SOCIAL MEDIA as
PERSONAL LEARNING
NETWORKS
EFFICIENT APPS FOR
EVERYTHING
QUICKLY CREATE AND
SHARE
FOLLOW INNOVATORS
GLOBALLY
#1 Platform
for
Innovation

21. The Mobile Platform for Innovation:
Mobile Learning, Mobile Commerce
 Mobile devices replacing PC’s, globally
 More online shopping from mobile devices,
which now outsell PC’s 4:1
 New emerging entry-level mobile digital
entrepreneurship solutions
 Everyone and Everything Interconnected;
This can be dramatically Good or Bad.

22. 80% of Internet Use as Video by 2020
Millennials Average 9 hours screentime per day
 Video is returning us to being an oral culture,
replacing in many ways reading and writing
 “Using the humanizing power of visualized
information to calm people and promote
collaboration” Susan Crawford
 Short video instruction; youtube, etc.
 Short video interaction: Vine, Instagram,
evolution of social media with everyone video
capable, and able to send and receive video

23. Info-Diet Needs; Value VS Volume?
One Gig Monthly Content in 1 Second?
Application 1GB (datacap) 12GB
 Stream Video 165 videos 1980 videos
 Stream Music 570 songs 6840 songs
 Download apps,
games, and songs 255 downloads 3060 dnlds
 Post photos/video 2850 posts 34200 posts
 Go online 600 webpages 7200 webpages
 Email 4500+ emails 54000+ email
 Skype phone calls 1020 minutes 12240
minutes
 Measuring Info-Diet Socioeconomic
Capacity-Building as…
 Smartest Inputs and Creative Rich Media
Outputs

24. Audience ————Outcomes————Sustainable Goals
Rural and Native Youth Train-the-Trainers
Programs for the first Digital Generation
 Youth: Seventh Generation Prophesy;
Cultural Sustainability and Empowerment
Meaningful Civic Engagement and Community Building;
VS
social media cyberbullying and abuse
 Everyone both learner and teacher, consumer and
producer, all the time. Entry-level Digital Entrepreneurship
Lifestyles
 Youth: Entry-Level Digital entrepreneurship
“Making the living you want, living wherever you want;”

25. New Metrics to Mirror Local Progress
 We’ll make it or break it at the local level
 Creating a Culture of Use, Creativity, and
Most Important; Effective Collaboration
*The Rural Tradition of Creative Adaptation
 Public Visual Mirror Metrics: Showing
Progress and/or the Lack of It at both
the individual and community levels
 Multi-Community Ongoing Competitions

26. Immaculate Integration:
Collaboration for Community Learning is
Everyone’s Responsibility
 Paradigm Shift:
From Silos to Open Collaboration
 K12 Schools, Universities
 Economic Developers
 Government Agencies
 Businesses
 Non-Profits, Community-Based Orgs
 Parents, Youth, Citizens
 Telecommunications Companies

27. Alaska Native Rural Innovations Incubator
Read the BBC Magazine Article;
The Challenge for Mass Innovation
http://lone-eagles.com/mass-innovation.pdf
View the Videos and Open Invitation
 Youth-Driven Local Innovation Incubators
 Ongoing Updates and Video Mini-lessons
 A Replicable Low Cost Model to Inspire

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30. Think Globally, Act Locally

31. Instant Micromultinationals

32. Native America’s Challenge:
Unleashing the Creativity of All Native Americans
 The Top Down has yet to learn how to
partner meaningfully with the Bottom
Up!
 Broadband best practices:
 Elearning as most scalable educational option
 Effective collaboration to stay current
 Routine sharing of innovations across all rural
communities, regionally, nationally, globally
 Local Innovation Incubators Recommended
as short-term competitive ongoing pilots

33. Discussion:
Grassroots Rural and Native Innovations
 Next Steps for Tribal Technology
Training?
 Building on two Alaska Native pilot
projects
 Creating a scalable model for all
tribes nationally and internationally?
 Who is motivated to learn what, and
why? Who shares what visions?

34. Join the Rural Telecom Congress
The Voice of Rural Prosperity
 Twelve Broadband Toolkits
 http://innovativecommunities.pbworks.com
 http://ruraltelecon.org
 Resources:
http://lone-eagles.com/austin-2015.htm