[1st-mile-nm] Update on the FCC's Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media Consultation Workshop

[Richard Lowenberg]

 From: 	Native <Native at fcc.gov>
Subject: Update on the FCC's Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and 
Media Consultation Workshop
Date: 	August 19, 2013 9:27:40 AM MDT
To: 	Native <Native at fcc.gov>

Hesci!  Chukma! Greetings!

I’m writing this message to provide you with updates to our previous 
notice about the FCC’s Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media 
Consultation Workshop, to be conducted on September 25-26 at the 
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, 
New Mexico 87508.  We have added registration and hotel information.

Please register for this workshop by providing your name, title, Tribal 
or company affiliation, phone, and email contact information via email 
to native at fcc.gov.  Please note that we have not received your 
registration unless you receive a confirmation email from us.

A limited block of discounted rooms has been set aside for workshop 
participants nearby at the Inn at Santa Fe, 8376 Cerrillos Road, Santa 
Fe, NM 87507.  Attendees should call the hotel directly at 
(888)-871-7138 or (505)-474-9500 and ask for the “Federal Communications 
Commission” block of rooms.  The group rate is $75 per night plus tax.

The workshop will focus on opportunities for Tribal governments and 
Native communities to help build communications infrastructure on Tribal 
lands to improve connectivity and local efforts to enhance cultural and 
language preservation, economic opportunities, and community 
institutions.  The workshop is free and open to Tribal governmental 
officials – including Tribal leaders, IT Directors, Economic Development 
Specialists, Radio and Media Managers, Public Safety officials, and 
Tribal education, health care, and facilities staff with an interest and 
work relationship with the subject matter.  In addition, entities 
including advocacy groups, nonprofits, and other entities involved in 
Native and Tribal telecommunications infrastructure development are 
invited.

We will be providing timely and topical information about opportunities 
in broadband, radio, and telecommunications specifically for Indian 
Country.  We will also be presenting and discussing and encouraging 
dialogue on proposed FCC rules impacting Tribal lands nationwide.  In 
addition to these important policy and dialogue sessions, the workshop 
will feature our Native Learning Lab.  This is an interactive computing 
and training space, where attendees will be able to work with FCC staff 
and receive one-on-one personalized help or small group assistance to 
learn how to access and utilize FCC systems in order to take advantage 
of these opportunities.

In a few weeks, an agenda will be finalized and we will send it to you 
at that time.  If you have any questions before then, please send us a 
note at native at fcc.gov.

We hope you will be able to join us at the workshop and that you will 
help us maximize participation by forwarding this information to all of 
your contacts.

Mvto!  Thank you and best regards,

Geoff

Geoffrey C. Blackwell
Chief
Office of Native Affairs and Policy
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC  20554
Desk:  202-418-3629
Mobile:  202-253-4846
geoffrey.blackwell at fcc.gov



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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir.
1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
www.1st-mile.org  rl at 1st-mile.org
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