DTC 475 - Spring 2023

"If we acknowledge the vastness of the idea and make room for it in our minds, after having learned about the challenges of tribes acquiring access to the Internet— a globally networked series of infrastructures built around a set of standards— we must then return to the concepts of human interconnectedness, the technical interoperability of this critical communications infrastructure, and the matter of diplomacy and regulation. Duarte, Marisa Elena." Network Sovereignty : Building the Internet across Indian Country , University of Washington Press, 2017.  ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail.action?docID=4987329. While reading this book, there have been a lot of conversations of the assumptions about a zero-sum agonism between a techno-scientific world and Indigenous ways of knowing. Such as the indigenous people who are trying to connect to each other and spread their culture around the world; And they'll continue to celebrate and spr...

"If we allow the Indian model to revive and be useful, the disparity between humans and technology will begin to diminish. Then the ability to conceptualize contemporary problems— the environment, the ozone layer, ecology, science itself— can emerge. You would have scientists who come from a more harmonious and balanced sense of who they are as a people." —Carlos Cordero, “Reviving Native Technologies” ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail.action?docID=4987329. Created from wsu on 2023-01-20 00:13:29. The Internet is a very important tool to us in the modern day, and as such it should be natural that everyone gets equal rights to access the internet. But reading though the chapters of "Network Sovereignty" , it is appalling that the native people have to go thought so many different channels, laws, and sometimes needing to fight for it. Despite how much the world relies on the internet however, it is still being locked behind certa...

  In the assigned readings of Chapter 1 and 2 of Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country , the author, Marisa Elena Duarte, discusses how the lack of or difficulty accessing the internet has affected their lives greatly. In the primary example provided in the book, a Native woman was struggling to get her mother the medical attention she required due to being "out of Network". This is a prime example of information asymmetry and network exclusion, where this woman's struggles due to not having ease of access to the vast information network most of us have, from not having service to contact 911 to not having ease of access to their own medical records as they are not uploaded online. The quote of  " To many in the wired and hyper-connected world, it is unimaginable and in many ways undesirable to live in a remote reservation with no landline phone service, slow Internet only in the public library fifty miles away, and an intermittent wireless...