AN-MSI

NSF Advanced Networking Project With Minority-Serving Institutions

AN-MSI Tribal College Wireless Project Overview

One of the subgoals of the AN-MSI project is to explore the effectiveness of wireless technology to provide solutions to data and voice transmission problems at minority-serving institutions and their respect reservations. One of the strategies that the project will employ to reach this subgoal is to test various wireless applications at one or more Tribal Colleges & Universities (TCUs).

The Tribal College Project Action Committee, with the majority of the development conducted by Jack Barden, developed a solicitation for a TCU to express their interest in becoming involved with the Wireless Project, as it has become known. This solicitation was sent to all AIHEC TCUs during the last week of July 2000.

On August 15, 2000, EDUCAUSE received eight responses to the solicitation. The following were the eight TCUs: Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Fort Belknap College, Fort Berthold Community College, Fort Peck Community College, Leech Lake Tribal College, Sitting Bull College, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, & Turtle Mountain Community College. A review team of peers was assembled and the TCUs were ranked in order, according to a set of guidelines.

Four institutions were selected to take part in the first cohort of the Wireless Project. These four include, with links to site information, photos, maps and the wireless plan for each site:

Developing a Legal Strategy

Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School is helping the TCUs to develop a legal strategy regarding current wireless regulatory and policy issues.

Lawrence Lessig
Stanford Law School
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
e-mail: lessig@pobox.com
Web site: http://www.lessig.org/

Wireless Project Updates

January 31, 2001 -- Presentation by Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group (FIU, Miami, FL)
April 27, 2001 -- "Where Eagles Dare: Spectrum Policy and Wireless Technology in Indian Country", presented at the Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
- Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
- Steve Dupuis, Salish Kootenai College

HPWREN Project

The AN-MSI project's wireless network team is collaborating with UCSD's High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) project. For more information on the HPWREN project, please visit: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu.

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