richard anderson. 2 year tribal college established 1968 as navajo community college 7 sites, ...

Richard Anderson

2 year Tribal CollegeEstablished 1968 as Navajo

Community College7 sites,Main campuses

Tsaile, AZ Shiprock, NM

Current enrollment 1,830 students

26,000 square milesPopulation (2000), 175,000Long walk, 1863

Indian Removal Act

One Computer Science Instructor BA Math, MS CS, PhD Philosophy Lots of experience teaching at Tribal

Colleges Courses

CS1, CS2▪ Reges and Stepp text

Hardware Networking Operating Systems Web Design Discrete Math

5-week course on refurbishing computers

Rebuilt computers and made them available to the community

Visiting instructor from MIT

Met with students from CS coursesPresented a short overview of UW

Developing World Projects Used CAM as an example Showed the CAM video from website Mentioned medical protocols and digital

study hall

Previous years – intensive quarter long project course

This year – Developing World Technology Three quarter sequence▪ Background seminar▪ Design studio▪ Intensive quarter long project course

Goal – partner with student project groups at Heritage University

Animal identification and tracingErosion controlPlant identificationArtisan

Provenance Connection of supplier to consumer

RecyclingLand recordsDiet monitoring

Cows, Horses, SheepProblems of keeping track of

ownership Identification of brandsReporting of locationsDetermining ownership of unbranded

locations

Water is the critical resourceStudent comment on “fence in the

air”

Student comment on the need for the reservation to set up recycling

Issue identified of illegal dumping Identifying Recording Publicizing

“Everyone is involved in a land dispute”

Mention of existing services based on GPS

Traditional arts High value High mark up Competition with Mexican, Thai, Belgian, Pakistani

imports Opportunities

Connect consumers/producers Support authenticity Establish value

Issues Artists often traditional, Navajo speaking Cultural concerns▪ Business instructor found lack of interests in using eBay

for marketing

One student had worked on a summer project doing a census of invasive species

Data recording/identification done by hand

Diabetes problem mentioned

These did not come up from the students

Very sensitive area

Computing technologies widely applicable in developing world

Successful deployment requires deep understanding of local context

Basic technologies applicable in many different contexts

Design technology to support local modification / deployment

CAMDigital StudyHall

DigitalStarPDA support for decision trees

Strong interest in having technology applied “We are a developing nation”

Problem areas are highly relevant to ICTD Likely benefits to UW and TCs

But not likely to yield a large number of transfer students to UW

Partnerships Need administrative support and faculty /

student connectionsPossible approach to work with AIHEC

Link to student project groupsTeach an Introductory Programming

Class over the summer (aimed at transfer students)

Teach a Developing World Technology seminar at Dine over the summer