[1st-mile-nm] Amerind Risk Management

[Richard Lowenberg]

Here's a short excerpted update on important broadband related 
initiatives at some
New Mexico pueblo communities, from an article on the work of Amerind 
Risk Management.

Quote:

"Two New Mexico Tribal consortium applications were recently awarded a 
total of almost $8 million in federal E-rate funds to bring broadband to 
their schools and libraries. The funding awarded to these two 
applications—one filed on behalf of the Santa Ana, San Felipe, Santo 
Domingo and Cochiti Pueblos, and the other filed on behalf of the Jemez 
and Zia Pueblos—will be used to construct Tribally owned fiber broadband 
networks. “Tribal schools and libraries have been going at it alone to 
increase their access to broadband Internet—with limited and varied 
success. “The new E-rate opportunities allowed the two Tribal consortia 
in New Mexico to address connectivity issues together by aggregating 
demand and working with our Tribal neighbors, to create a network that 
is exponentially faster at a fraction of the cost,” Sekaquaptewa said. 
“These applications show what E-rate can—and up until now has been 
unable to—accomplish in Tribal communities. They are bringing 
connectivity to Tribal schools and libraries that, but for E-rate 
dollars, would never enjoy benefits that 21st Century fiber connectivity 
provides,” Flannery said."



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