Reading Annotation Blog 1.2

 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 signal." was the quote that convinced me to write this post regarding this issue. As someone who happens to spend most of their time on the internet, and uses it as a primary source for information gather, I find it criminal that a lot of the native population and indigenous people don't have access to it;  And it hurts to see that it has come to them having to build their own ways to access the internet, forming their own native sociotechnical networks. And as the book points out, connectivity is possible, but the people who can make it happen are hiding behind excuses that can be resolved with relative ease. So the myth of Indian people being pre-modern and anti-technological is just a lie, as seen by them in their own efforts trying to gain access to the internet, but it is the people who are trying to push them back into obscurity who are actively denying them this resource and hurting them.