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"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Thanks for that question. It's very important. Thanks, Sean. Absolutely. I really want to hammer home that point of our Internet connections and only as strong and as fast as the weakest link in the chain, so that could be outdated fiber or not enough fiber or a number of other critical pieces of infrastructure along the way. Well, folks, I'm sorry, we've reached the end of the hour and another fascinating conversation. I want to thank my guests, Jeffrey Blackwell, Erica hovey, and doctor Tracey Morris for their expertise in guiding us through the future of 5G, wireless technology, and its impact on native communities. We are back tomorrow one another awesome live show. Until then, I'm Sean spruce, and thanks for listening to the one the only Native American calling. Support by the American Indian college fund, the American Indian college fund provides millions of dollars of scholarships to thousands of native students every year. Tribal citizens of every age and experience are eligible. Scholarship applications are now open for the upcoming school year at college fund dot org. That's college fund dot org or by phone at 807 6 6 F, UND. Education is the answer. Support by Roswell park, who knows tribal communities face persistent challenges in health equity, such as cancer and higher death rates. The center for indigenous cancer research at Roswell park comprehensive cancer center is dedicated to advancing cancer research that will lead to translatable science, medicine, and cancer care for indigenous populations worldwide. Are you at high risk for cancer? A no charge online assessment tool is available at Roswell park dot org slash assess me. Native America calling is produced in the annenberg national native voice studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by quantic broadcast corporation, a native nonprofit media organization. Funding is provided by the corporation for public broadcasting, with support from the public radio satellite service. Music is by Brent Michael Davis. Native voice one, the Native American radio network.
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"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Native America Calling
"National native news is produced by chronic broadcast corporation with funding by the corporation for public broadcasting. Support by vision maker media currently seeking documentary film proposals for public media television broadcasting that represent the culture's experiences and perspectives of Native Americans and Alaska natives. Deadline for submission is Friday, February 11th, that vision maker media dot org. Support by the American Indian college fund, providing millions of dollars of scholarships to native students every year. Applications for the upcoming school year are now accepted at college fund dot org or by phone at 807 6 6 FU and D. Native voice one the Native American radio network. This is native America calling, I'm Sean spruce. 5G wireless technology offers higher Internet speeds and more reliable service. It's seen as one way for tribes to help close the broadband access gap. At the same time, the inevitable march toward ever improving technology could leave a number of native people out. By the end of this year, wireless companies will have largely shut off service for previous three G technology. That's fine, unless you have a device that only works on three G the strong hearts, native helpline, a sexual violence and domestic assault prevention organization is among those expressing concerns that the drive toward 5G excludes many people, especially rural reservation residents who might lack means to keep up with tech advances. Today, we'll hear about what is possible with 5G and how it differs from what most people are using today. We'll also get an idea of ways some native people will fall through the gaps. Want to join a conversation, you know you do. So give us a call one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8. As always, that's one 809 9 native. Joining us today from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is Jeffrey Blackwell. He's the chief strategy officer and general counsel for Amarin risk, and the former chief of the Federal Communications Commission's office of native affairs and policy. He's Omaha, chickasaw, choctaw, and muscogee creek. Welcome back to native America calling Jeff. It's an honor to be back on your show. Thanks, Sean. Joining us from Phoenix, Arizona is doctor Tracey Morris. She is the executive director of the American Indian policy institute at Arizona state university. She's from the chickasaw nation. Welcome back to NAC as well, doctor Morris. Hello. And joining us from Traverse City, Michigan, we have CC hovey, she's the communications manager for strong hearts, native helpline, and she's anishinaabe from the Sue saint Marie tribe of chippewa indones. CC, welcome to the show. Let me go watch, thank you, Sean. A note of disclosure before we get started folks, amar and risk and strong hearts native helpline are both financial sponsors of native America callings parent company, culinary broadcast corporation. That said, like many of you, I'm hearing a lot about 5G technology so much hype these days, the future of the Internet. And I've got questions about things like virtual reality, the metaverse, this fully digital world that for better or worse will all be immersed in. So please, Jeff, I'd like to have you start our conversation today by telling us, why is 5G such a big deal? Oh, that's a that's a good question. So 5G, of course, stands for the 5th generation of wireless mobile networks in the United States? The first generation was kind of back in the 80s if people remember when cell phones were really just analog voice. The second generation was in the early 19 90s when there was digital voice or some people called that CDMA technology. Third generation was just about a decade later early 2000s that twin the first mobile data networks were developed. So when the Internet really started getting adopted at a huge rate across the United States through people's mobile phones when they first started getting called sort of smartphones. Fourth generation was in the 2010s four G or four G LTE, that was when there was much greater speed. 5G is really it's a further development of this of this mobile broadband and what its promise is that the way in which the technology uses the wireless airwaves or the frequencies or what's called electromagnetic spectrum, it creates a digital signal that can be used across several different channels to reduce interference and is much more scalable as much faster and can be utilized by many different types of devices. So you hear about it being used for everything from healthcare to auto driving cars, but it has also kind of changing the faith it will change the face of the way that networks are built in the United States. Kind of heretofore, you'd see these big polls or towers or masks, 5G in order to provide that kind of signal strength. They're going to be smaller devices, smaller boxes, smaller radio devices and they're going to be more proliferous. They're going to be more throughout communities. So rather on rather than structure on top of a large tower or mass, it will be smaller devices that could be the size of devices, the size of a large box on the sides of buildings and on poles. Okay. Jeff, I'm looking out the window right now, and I see one of those really large towers that you're describing. So I don't know if that's a good thing to have less of those, but more smaller ones are just these larger ones, but fewer of them. But I'm curious, Jeff, as a user, the difference between 5G and these other lower quality versions of wireless Internet. What's that going to be like for just people using their phones and we hear it's a lot faster and things like that. So what's that experience going to be like? So that's the major thing. I mean, wireless technology is the fast, fastest adopted technology by humans since like the bow since the wheel, everybody 20 years ago, even 25 years ago thought that there would always be a wireline telephone in your house. Houses were designed around them. There were little nooks and houses. And nobody ever thought that they would it was seen as being a luxury device, the phones were a thousand, a thousand, $500. It was something for the ultra ridge. Actually, now we're back to those $1500 phones, but now you have folks who have three, four wireless devices. They have a phone. They have their laptop. They have their iPad. They have something in their car or something. It does promise more speed, it does promise more reliability and lower latency, it's kind of the timing of uploading the.
Native America Calling
"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Native America Calling
"So one of the real cool things that has been recognized by Congress and taking up by the agencies and particularly Department of Commerce in TIA, I got to hand it to them. They came up with a proposal that just so they asking tribal nations could obtain several $100,000. I think $500,000 for planning grants associated with broadband obviously that's a complex area and not that any other area of treated by this isn't also complex. But I have to admit early on, I was skeptical about that because I thought eventually eating into the actual infrastructure dollars, but they're very first allocations out of the gate are for these infrastructure grants for planning. So for any tribe that is thinking, not sure we can do this. There is money available for broadband to go get it to get experts to help you, you can look at inter tribal associations, other tribal companies, folks that know your situation quite well. Thanks for the question. And thank you so much for your contributions today. Jeffrey bet is about all the time we have right now. As I was saying, there's a lot to digest digital equity at that into your brain out there as well. This isn't the last time we're going to be talking about these infrastructure developments throughout Indian country as well. So once again, that's all the time we have for today's show. I want to thank my guests never hope president Jonathan nez Jeffrey Blackwell and of course Heather tanana. We're on for another live show tomorrow. Host Andy Murphy is talking about a new native wisdom and recipe book and a new native restaurant in Oakland, California. That's on the menu tomorrow. On native America calling, I'm Brett maybe. Louis Liu in cool quilting when Tom's kilowatt slew on and crispy out and fluently and crispy out and she just opened her seal. Super Mariah saw him till next.
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"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Native America Calling
"And, you know, we in our report go through kind of the four main agencies that are involved with thinking water and sanitation projects that IHS EPA USDA and reclamation to some extent. And we make recommendations on how each of those agencies can make changes within their agency to be more flexible and need the more comprehensive you would like to try. I'm glad that water and tribes initiative was able to have this plan and ready for The White House tribal nation summit last week and before our time today is up. I want to come back to you and ask a few questions about possible solutions and let's talk long term as well, but at this time I'd like to bring in our next guest joining us from Albuquerque New Mexico as Jeffrey Blackwell. He's the chief strategy officer in general counsel for amerind risk, co chair of the National Congress of American Indians telecommunications and technology subcommittee and formal Federal Communications Commission, office chief. He's Omaha, chickasaw, choctaw muskogee creek. Welcome just a quick disclaimer. I do have to get out as well. Amerind risk has been a financial contributor to colonic broadcast corporation native America callings parent company. Welcome back to the native America calling today, Jeffrey. Good to be back, mister maybe. Nice to be on your show again. Absolutely. We're having a great discussion about how useful this money can be to the 574 indigenous nations across the country. And I'm excited to get your perspective as well. Now this new initiative provides an additional amount of money over and above what was already set aside for tribes to use to expand broadband access. How much more is it? And what does it entail? Well, this is just simply a new day building on some of the developments in the consolidated appropriations act of 2021. This is a new day for tribal broadband. Unprecedented in our lifetimes the infrastructure Bill has over 60 billion for broadband throughout the United States and there are several billions that tribes qualify for there are some important changes to the tribal broadband connectivity program, which is a new program with established.
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"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
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"jeffrey blackwell" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Jeff but. I don't and monica. I don't think we've ever seen funding go directly to try in the way that it has in the wake of the pandemic in any capacity whether it's broadband or anything else and that is a game changer. Yeah that's that's one of the things that i've heard as well a jeff. You know you want to weigh in on when we have these huge chunks of money coming to to native america and the second round. We just did a show about it. There's a lot more Ability discretion to use it for things like broadband so absolutely. This is unprecedented time. And it's important that our legislators the national local level and our administrators from the president on down understand that tribes no their land best it is incumbent on tribes since this funding is coming in I should probably disclose. I co-chaired that technology and telecommunications subcommittee of the national congress american indians along with matthew and no stranger to your show and i also co the economic finance community development committee of ncaa the parent to that and one of the things we've been we've been telling working with tribes nationwide on his helping get organized at home so funding is coming. Funding is coming. There's no doubt it came in the in the consolidated appropriations act to twenty one. It came in the american rescue plan. There's new planning for billion dollar infrastructure. Bill there's no doubt that more funding will becoming just how and how much but what tribes can do now is really good organized synthesize a plan so for instance tribe leadership engaging engaging with folks like ms leonard who earlier the gentleman who called from santee to understand what's missing what needs to be addressed and how to put it into these applications and get it into motion I will tell you the one of the big asks coming from. Ncaa to to congress. And the letter. That i mentioned earlier was ten billion dollars in additional funding for the tribal burning tribal broadband connectivity grant program which is currently at ti. And and just as tracy said you know. Our thinking is cutting edge here. We're trying to be as current as possible when our advocacy and working with the administration That may move to other places are advocacy may may change that that funding go to other other administrators within the federal government. in ti. Got the first billion dollars in toronto of a tribal broadband connectivity program and unfortunately is is but for good reasons unfortunately as well behind their statutory deadline of every twenty fifth of getting the application out. It's what now june first right well. Unfortunately we're gonna have to leave it there. But thank you all so much for being on the show today. Dr tracy morris jeffrey blackwell and representative derek lindsay. Back tomorrow with.