Update on Wed 5 pm: Talking Circle - President Clinton Demo]

Thu Apr 13 15:23:40 CDT 2000

All,

Latest information is Clinton arrives at Dine' College in Shiprock at 8
PM on Monday evening.  So we have all day Monday to get the AG running
there and the network and studio set up.  We hope we can get a studio
set up in the lobby of Dine' - if possible - as that is at this time the
primary stop at the college.  If the lobby is not possible, we will be
set up in the visz lab - I am told.  It then depends on Neal Lane and
local college leaders to get the President to walk the distance to the
lab and see the AG demo and other lab features there.

My understanding at this time is that a "talking circle" on the issues
of serving remote sites and related topics such as applications of the
AG, the EPSCoR Alliance activity, plus EOT activity will be taking
place.  Who is speaking when the President walks in - if he does - will
be strictly by chance.  The floor should revert to Al or whoever is at
the Dine' site for any local comments if the President arrives.

Everyone at this end is on 24x7 mode and very eager to make this a
premier show.

*** This effort is to be billed as a demo of a key capability, which the
Alliance along with others, is developing, deploying and applying to the
real world of research, education and community needs. ***

Thanks to ALL who are engaged and all who are supporting this effort.

John Connolley,  We wish you to be on from Kentucky noting the EPSCoR
proposal to put these in each EPSCoR state and you will be pleased that
NM  is joining EPSCoR.  Also please forward this to Dan Vanbelleghem

Dan VanBelleghem, We need you on from ACCESS/DC representing EPSCoR
efforts and that EPSCoR is by nature working hard on DD issues. Also
pleas let me know if you get this message.

Roscoe,  We invite you to be on representing EOT  and efforts at
addressing the digital divide  as a special focus of EOT (however I am
very sensitive, because of our lack of inclusion, for this to be a forum
to extoll the EDUcause award).

I feel this effort  is a demo of a technology to ease the digital divide
effect and especially ease the isolation of colleges such as Dine' .
This message needs to be our thrust in the talking circle  - how do we
apply the AG to bring places like Dine' into closer contact with other
institutions and organizations so to participate in research, training,
education and eventually commerce.

Finally I know this is late on Monday and there is a chance it will not
be seen by the President.  However it will be a "Talking Circle" and a
solid Alliance accomplishment to have achieved this demonstration for a
Presidential visit focusing on the Digital Divide.  Again I reiterate we
have previously run AG sessions involving both campuses of Dine' and UNM
so this is not a contrived demo.  It is an integral part of our Alliance
efforts in the SW both in the PACS and EOT.  In this regard there will
be lots of Indian Press coverage and we need Alliance press coverage as
well - and we need to coordinate with them as the lead (Margaret -
please pass this on to Karen Green).

Sincerely, thanks and good luck to the technical teams,

Frank

Frank Gilfeather wrote:

> All,
>
> "Digital Talking Circle" - symbolically my guess is that we will pass
> the floor around the screen without jumping back to the modertor - so
> we need to pass the virtual right to speak from site to site - perhads
> west to east or something -  it will be agreed to on Sunday's call .
> Ironically this is basically how the AG functions anyway.  We need to
> add this language and the context to the lore of the AG.  See we
> gained something already from this exercise.  Evan's extended
> description of a talking circle is at
> http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/DTC.htm.  Clinton will not participate
> but would look in on it in progress - our hope.
>
> We are still organizing this and feel there is a home run if we pull
> it off.  Neal Lane will be in NM with Clinton so we feel there is a
> good chance this will be seen by the President.
>
> For Monday, we would like to have Larry and Dan if possible at NCSA, a
> group, yet identified at NSF at ACCESS/DC along with Phil, ANL of
> course, BU, UK, MHPCC, UNM of course .  We need to test on Sunday and
> stand by for a period on Monday.  Times will become better focused
> closer to Monday BUT I personnally fear time will overtake the
> President and he may miss Dine' altogether (Dine' is the third stop on
> his 2.5 hr visit.).  NSF has not been notified so I am including
> Elbert.
>
> Currently we may set up in the visz lab where the president may go
> (this depends on Neal Lane getting Clinton from the lobby to the visz
> room) to see a PicTel demo by Livermore The idea is to still do the
> talking circle from the visz lab.  I note that the two other demos the
> president may see are PicTel - so if we can pull it off it is a big
> step foreward for the Alliance AG program.  Lane is aware that the
> current agenda has the president in the lobby of Dine' only and that
> he wants to take Clinton to the visz lab.
>
> Everyone on site - the Navajo group (represented by Al Kuslikis)and
> the UNM group are working hard - other agencies are joining in.  Bill
> and our team(s) here  have been doing tremoundous things.  We are
> greatly indebted to many of committed folks.
>
> Frank
>
> A web site with a reference to the trip is
> http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?
> rn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/5/10.text.1
>
> PS
>
> Unfortunately i will probably not be present as a family health matter
> takes presidence.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Bill Nickless wrote:
>
>> At 09:09 PM 4/11/2000 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
>> >There is a plan in the works to use the AG in a Digital Talking
>> Circle
>> >with President Clinton, president of Dine' college, Frank G, Rick,
>> Larry,
>> >Dan Reed, folks at ACCESS-DC.
>>
>> Excerpted from http://www.uccan.org/global/interfaith01.htm#5 we
>> read:
>>
>> >5. Talking Circles
>> >The initial challenge in interfaith work is how to establish trust.
>>
>> >Without trust, conversation soon grinds to a halt. How the
>> conversation is
>> >conducted reflects power structures. A guest speaker is still a
>> guest, one
>> >voice among many. How do we break out of the Western Christian
>> model of
>> >conversation? Asked another way, the question becomes "How should
>> we meet
>> >each other?" When this question was posed to Aboriginal
>> communities, the
>> >response was the talking circle. In the talking circle, a sacred
>> emblem is
>> >passed from person to person, and the holder bears the right to
>> speak
>> >without interruption. In such a way, the voices of all those
>> present are
>> >honoured.
>> >·       The talking circle takes time, which may at first be
>> perceived as
>> >a limitation but is actually a strength. It is a model based on
>> completion
>> >and respect, rather than reliance on "authoritative" perspectives.
>>
>> For context, the source of the quotation is the United Church of
>> Canada.
>>
>> I don't know how a Digital Talking Circle would operate on Monday.
>> ===
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and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
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University of New Mexico
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