Reading Annotation Blog 1.4

"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 spread said culture as long as they remain. This is the impact of the tribal broadband deployments within it's current capacity. However, there are still limitations to these broadbands, which can still be seen as an issue to many. Now imagine if the indigenous people had the easy, fast internet access we all have?

 
Though working together, both the indigenous people and the efforts of the good people who wish for equal network access to all, are trying to demolish ideological connections between Internet entrepreneurship and Manifest Destiny. I can say I for one support the easy of internet access to all people, including the native people of the land; Enough of attempting to isolate them from the rest of the world by cutting them off from internet access, it's time to provide access to the internet to all people like the right that it should be. By allowing the indigenous people access to the internet in such a way, we can start the decolonization process, and start bringing together a more "balanced" world.