"No tribe will be able to
attract new business if it doesn't have the phone fax, Internet, and
other technology capabilities essential to the 21st
century." --- President Clinton - August 6, 1998
Monday, February 22
8:30 – 8:45 Opening Ceremony, Intertribal
Singers
8:45 - 9:15 Workshop Overview & Trends
- Telecom — Madonna Peltier
Yawakie, Minnesota American Indian Science & Engineering
Society Professional Chapter
- Telehealth —
Paulette Hansen, American Indian Information Network
9:15 – 9:45 Connecting Aboriginal
Canadians to the Information Highway to Promote
Self-Sufficiency, Ricky Fontaine, Director, Aboriginal
Business Canada
9:45 – 11:00 Shared
Telecommunication Experiences In Expanding Tribal Service Levels
- David Cosson,
Partner, Kraskin, Lesse & Cosson
- Virgil Lewis,
Director, Tohono O’odham Tribal Utility Authority
- Joanne Miles Long,
Administrative Services, San Carlos Apache Tribal Utility
- Jack Brown, Golden
West, South Dakota
- Ray Poitra, CEO
Uniband, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
11:00 –11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 National Interests
Presentations
- National Library of Medicine
& University of WA Tribal Connections Project, Roy Sahali
- AIHEC Telecom Network,
Caitlin Racine Myers, Northwest Indian College
- Federal Communications
Commission Initiative to Expand Telecom Service Levels to
Tribes, Eric Liang Jensen, Deputy Director, Office of
Communications Business Opportunities
- Y2K Millennium Bug, Ted
Michels, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 5:10 Telecom & Telehealth,
Two-Track Sessions
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Telehealth Applications
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Rural Utilities Service Check-list of How to Start a Utility
with Government Financing, Ken Chandler, SW Telecom
Director for RUS, USDA |
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Rural Trends in Telemedicine, Center for Health Policy,
University of Colorado, Dr. James Grigsby |
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Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative, Hank Buchanan,
Vice President of Industry Affairs |
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Federal Health Access Care Network, Richard Hall, AK
Native Medical Center |
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Federal Universal Service Fund Programs, Doug Dawson,
Principal Competitive Communications Group |
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Overview Federal Telemedicine Projects, Paulette Hansen
AIIN and Bill Halvorson, OAO Healthcare |
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Identification of Business Partners & Financial Structures,
Gabriel Hall, President & CEO Global Strategy Group,
Inc. |
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Telehealth Project Planning Basics, Leslie Sandburg,Vice-President,
OAO Healthcare |
Tuesday
Morning, February 23
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Telecomm Session
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Telehealth Applications
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Elements of a Tribal Utility Code,
John Tahsuda, Acting General Counsel, Oneida
Nation of NY & David Cosson, Partner, Kraskin, Lesse
& Cosson |
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Diabetes & Eye Management, Dr. Lloyd
Hildebrand, Inoveon Corporation, & Lance
Rogers, East Carolina University Telemedicine
Center. Followed by a short Entho-Med Overview,
Chholing Taha, University of WA |
10:30 –10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:4o Do We Need to Wait
for Next Generation Internet? Krishna Pendyala,
Vice-President, ISLIP
11:40 – 12:35 Enhanced Emergency
911 Service & European WirelessTechnology, R. Kevin
Murray,Robert L. Kimball &
Associates, State College, PA and Richard Serdynski,
Com-Net, Vice President Operations, Technology
12:35
– 1:30 Choice of Picnic Lunch or Image Software Demonstration
Applicable by Charlene Apel, President, 2nd Opinion
Software
1:30 – 2:30 Wireless Alternative
– Fixed and Mobile Solutions for a Broad-Range of Tribal
Telecommunication Needs, Alex Alavi,
Manager, Motorola Network Solution Sector
2:30 – 3:30 Demonstration of
Tribal Telecommunications Solutions, Melvin Yawakie & Gary
Beaver, US West !NTERPRISE
Networking Engineers and Sam Sekaquaptewa & Chuck Spencer,
CISCO
3:30 – 3:45 Lemonade & Ice Tea
Break
3:34 – 4:30 Satellite Technology,
Bill Halvorson,
OAO Healthcare
Wednesday
Morning, February 24
8:30 – 11:30 Working Breakfast —
Setting Tribal Priorities & Needs
Assessment in Response to FCC & White House Study by EDA,
Wrap-up & Closing Ceremony
International Society of Optical
Engineers Medical Imaging Exhibit — Tuesday 1:30 - 6:30 p.m. and
Wednesday from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m., Workshop Attendees Welcome
"This
country cannot afford a digital divide between those who have
access to the benefits of the Information Superhighway, and
those who do not"
-- Vice President Al Gore
Agenda |
Needs & Assessment
| Attendee List
| 1998 NAITW
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