Online Town Meeting with President Clinton
Evans Craig
ecraig at ahpcc.unm.edu
Thu Apr 13 16:38:03 CDT 2000
Hello all,
The president will be in LA earlier in the day and will be conducting this demo.
Evans Craig
Lisa Nelmida wrote:
>
> On Monday 4/17/2000 at 11:00 am (EST) President Clinton will be talking to
> ten groups of school children throughout the country via the Internet. The
> National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI) has been selected as
> one of the sites for this meeting.
> We may have some space available for additional children to participate in
> this meeting. If you know of any bright Indian children who are middle
> school age and above and live in the Santa Fe, NM area please have them
> contact me.
>
> Thank You,
> Lisa
>
> participating site for President Clinton's Online Town Meeting.
> Lisa A. Nelmida
> Development Director
> National Indian Telecommunications Institute
> 110 N. Guadalupe, STE 9
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
Frank Gilfeather wrote:
>
> 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.
> >> ===
> >> Bill Nickless http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless +1 630 252
> >> 7390
> >> PGP:0E 0F 16 80 C5 B1 69 52 E1 44 1A A5 0E 1B 74 F7
> >> nickless at mcs.anl.gov
> >
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> > Frank Gilfeather
> > Executive Director
> > High Performance Computing,
> > Education and Research Center
> > and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
> > 1601 Central Ave NE
> > University of New Mexico
> > Albuquerque NM, 87131
> >
> > Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235
> >
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> >
> >
>
> --
> ////////////////////////
> Frank Gilfeather
> Executive Director
> High Performance Computing,
> Education and Research Center
> and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
> 1601 Central Ave NE
> University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque NM, 87131
>
> Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235
>
> ////////////////////////
>
>
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