Presented for FCC Indian Training Initiative Conference, July, 2008

1. Global Best Practices on ICT Capacity-
building Activities for Rural Communities
Presented for APEC TEL March 23, 2008
by Frank Odasz,
President of Lone Eagle Consulting.
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Web: http://lone-eagles.com

2. Lone Eagle Consulting
 25 years of Rural ICT Innovations, 1983+
 Rural, Remote and Indigenous Learners
 Fast-track training and measurable outcomes
 Designing Local, Regional, and National ICT
Adoption Strategies
 Teaching Teachers of Teachers of Teachers
 Distance Learning Innovations

3. Wireless Six Miles from Town

4. Home on the Range

5. One Billion Online, Six to Go

6. Food for one week in US $341.98US

7. Food for one week in Ecuador $31.55US

8. Food for one week in Chad $1.23US

9. $100 laptop –Manual Power

10. ITU Indigenous ICT Conference

11. ICT Indigenous Commission of the Americas

12. Indigenous Women ICT Trainers

13. Weavers in Guatemala-Ecommerce?

14. Youthful Entrepreneur - Guatemala

15. In times of change,
learners inherit the earth
-Eric Fromm

16. Four Levels of Internet Self-
empowerment

17. Aboriginal Women’s Telecommunications
Roundtable, Ottawa, Canada

18. Social Engineering:
Implementing Meaningful Rural ICT Capacity
Building Metrics
 Authentic metrics for what citizens actually do
with ICTs defines Success
 If no one is really benefiting as promised
We need to know why!
 If genuine and positive outcomes are important
to you PLEASE Make No Assumptions.

19. Koyukuk – Alaskan Native Village

20. Youth and Elders in Koyukuk

21. The First Digital Generation

22. Alaska 99% Broadband Access?

23. “Planting seeds of entrepreneurship
must begin early enough in a child’s
primary education to establish
entrepreneurship as a lifelong choice.”
(Strengthening America’s Communities Initiative)
http://lone-eagles.com/saci.htm

24. Eight Wellness Components
Essential to a Healthy Village;
1. Safety
2. Health
3. Education
4. Enterpreneurship/Ecommerce
5. Social Services
6. Culture
7. Government
8. Entertainment

25. Donnie Morrison - Grassroots Champion:
The Internet enables us to sell our services
and the things we make to people around
the world

26. www.work- live local – work
Broadband Backbone Network
200 Mb SDH
backbone
2000 users
SDSL
802.11
wireless
access
network

27. www.work- live local – work

28. Community Learning is
Everyone’s Responsibility
 K12 Schools, Universities
 Economic Developers
 Government Agencies
 Businesses
 Elected community leaders
 Parents, Youth, Citizens
 Telecommunications Companies

29. The Community Inclusion Process
 Begin with presentations to raise awareness
that new knowledge bears new opportunities
 Engage citizens in online learning and
interaction on what’s already working for
others like them
 Identify local mentors interested in helping
others learn and in developing for-profit
mentoring services
 Engage community leaders, K-12
administrators and educators in understanding
key action strategies to build local capacity

30. Rural Web-raising Event Model

31. 17 Web Pages in 45 Minutes

32. Eleutian.com –Wyoming to Asia

33. The BIG Win-Win–Win
Telcos Grow Their Markets,
National Economies Prosper and
Citizens Realize Authentic Benefits
Participatory Community Research
Provide Incentives to Task Citizens
to Produce Results, and Give Them
the Training and Support Necessary
for Success

34. Defining BEST Broadband Applications
 Telemedicine –highest benefit with minimal skill
development
 Voice Over Internet Protocol VOIP – Greatest Citizen
participation and benefits with minimal training
 Community Internet Radio and TV
(and on-demand Instructional Videos/Podcasts)
 2-way Video with Peers and Mentors?
 Distance Learning and Application Sharing
 Ecommerce Support Services

35. Ideal Broadband Training “Skill Set”
To Include
 Advanced Email and Listserv Moderation
 Advanced Searching Skills
 Basic Web Self-publishing
 Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis, Bookmarking (Del.ic.io.us) Really Simple
Syndication (RSS,)
 Content Management Systems?
 Building Community Collaborative Capacity
 Distance learning tools for peer mentoring
 Cultural Sustainability and Multimedia Expression
 Ecommerce Entrepreneurship
 Transnational Activism
 http://lone-eagles.com/essential-skills.htm

36. Rural Ecommerce and
Telework Strategies
 Entry level ecommerce:
Ebay, ebay drop off centers
 Affiliate programs, Google adwords
 Webraisings – free ecommerce sites
 Virtual Ecommerce Incubators
E-marketing coops, community web business
directories, Emalls
 Ecommerce and Telework Support Networks
 International trade facilitation networks
 Micro-multi-nationals
 Recognizing the Emergence of a global learning culture

37. Resources to Share:
From My Family To Yours
http://lone-eagles.com
Thank You