PuebloConnect team members Marisa Elena Duarte (ASU) and Morgan Vigil-Hayes (NAU) publish blog post on PuebloConnect field work in New Mexico in the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab (MIT) Network Sovereignty Blog.
By Ivone Masara and Marisa Duarte As community-centered tech researchers, we are learning a lot about how geospatial data sets shape the innovation of rural place-based information and communication technologies (ICTs). Especially with Internet-enabled systems, designers can apply up-to-date geospatial data sets to improve performance of place-based technologies, and discern Read more…
Recently, our team has been working with the IT directors and network administrators for four sovereign Native nations and one rural county in northern New Mexico to try to extend middle-mile infrastructure across and through political jurisdictions. One challenge that our team has encountered pertains to the difficulty in locating Read more…
Team member and Indigenous studies scholar Prof. Marisa Duarte joined Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about her new book – Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country. Listen on: Apple.com Sound Cloud
Prior studies describe digital tactics as specific strategies actors apply within broader repertoires of contention, specifically in social and political contexts. A comparison of EZLN, Idle No More, and the ongoing Rio Yaqui water rights movement reveals the kinds of community knowledge work that has to happen prior to and Read more…
Building the Internet across Indian Country In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native organizations have Read more…
Contemporary globalization depends on the ability of the elite to exercise a command over information and communication technologies (ICTs). ICTs include, but are not limited to, networked information systems, such as local and wide area networks, high-speed Internet, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, data centers, radio frequency identification systems, and increasingly Read more…