SCC: PuebloConnect: Expanding Internet Access and Content Relevance in Tribal Communities

SCC：PuebloConnect：扩大部落社区的互联网访问和内容相关性

• 批准号: 1831698
• 负责人: Elizabeth Belding
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831698&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; PuebloConnect; Expanding; Internet; Access

Our research addresses the dual goals of improving Internet access in economically marginalized communities while also building local capacity towards regular digital content creation. We focus on Native American reservation communities, which have among the lowest Internet availability rates in the nation. Our work will develop new network technologies to enable reservation residents to meaningfully participate in the Internet, as both consumers and producers of Internet content, in order to create new opportunities for economic development. To ensure the success of our technical work, we will engage community members in the planning, implementation, and dissemination of our research. Our team is partnered with non-profit, Native-serving, and community organizations that are actively working to solve digital inequities.To create a more usable Internet, we comprehensively rethink middle- and last-mile network technologies to offer adaptive, smart connectivity. Our fundamental contributions include: the disaggregation of control and data planes and a new content upload and download platform that bridges the gap between the network core and end system devices via a smart middle mile; Television (TV) spectrum white space pilot link deployments and network management solution and to study usability in rural regions; and collaboration with community partners through a participatory action research protocol to identify digital information needs and develop a framework for Web-design training to increase the Internet presence of Native-owned organizations. Because Native American reservations share many geographical and population density characteristics with other rural regions, many aspects of our work will be applicable to extending the reach and usability of the Internet to other, non-Native communities within the U.S.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

我们的研究解决了改善经济边缘化社区的互联网接入的双重目标，同时也建立了当地的能力，以实现定期的数字内容创作。我们专注于美洲原住民保留社区，这些社区的互联网可用率在全国最低。 我们的工作将开发新的网络技术，使保留地居民能够作为互联网内容的消费者和生产者有意义地参与互联网，为经济发展创造新的机会。为了确保我们的技术工作的成功，我们将在我们的研究的规划，实施和传播社区成员。我们的团队与积极致力于解决数字不平等问题的非营利组织、本地服务组织和社区组织合作。为了创造一个更可用的互联网，我们全面重新考虑了中间和最后一英里网络技术，以提供自适应的智能连接。我们的基本贡献包括：控制和数据平面的分解以及新的内容上传和下载平台，通过智能中间英里在网络核心和终端系统设备之间架起差距的桥梁;电视（TV）频谱白色空间导频链路部署和网络管理解决方案，并研究农村地区的可用性;通过参与性行动研究协议与社区伙伴合作，确定数字信息需求，并制定网页设计培训框架，以增加本国拥有的组织在互联网上的存在。 由于美国原住民保留地与其他农村地区有许多共同的地理和人口密度特征，我们工作的许多方面将适用于将互联网的覆盖范围和可用性扩展到美国境内的其他非原住民社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico

• DOI: 10.1145/3446382.3448654
• 发表时间: 2021-02
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
• 作者: Esther H. Showalter;Morgan Vigil-Hayes;E. Zegura;R. Sutton;E. Belding-Royer

Caring for Our People: Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 Era Informatic Colonialism

关爱我们的人民：土著对 COVID-19 时代信息殖民主义的反应

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Selected Papers of #AoIR2021 (SPIR
• 作者: Duarte, M;Deschine-Parkhurst, N.;George, A.;Soto, A.
• 通讯作者: Soto, A.

Note: Towards Community-Empowered Network Data Action

注：迈向社区赋能的网络数据行动

• DOI: 10.1145/3530190.3534836
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS
• 作者: Palacios Abad, Beatriz;Belding, Elizabeth;Vigil-Hayes, Morgan;Zegura, Ellen
• 通讯作者: Zegura, Ellen

Alone and Together: Resilience in a Fluid Socio-Technical-Natural System

• DOI: 10.1145/3579457
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
• 作者: Beatriz Palacios Abad;Michael Koohang;Morgan Vigil-Hayes;E. Zegura

Introduction: Performing Rurality with Computing

简介：用计算演绎乡村

• DOI: 10.1145/3461832
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Makoto Su, Norman;Hardy, Jean;Vigil-Hayes, Morgan;Veinot, Tiffany;Comber, Rob
• 通讯作者: Comber, Rob