NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: TribalNet: Expanding Internet Accessibility and Participation on Native American Reservations

NeTS：媒介：协作研究：TribalNet：扩大美洲原住民保留地的互联网可访问性和参与度

• 批准号: 1563436
• 负责人: Elizabeth Belding
• 金额: $ 11.67万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1563436&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Medium; Collaborative; Research; TribalNet

Tribal communities represent the final frontiers of Internet access in the U.S., with fast (broadband) Internet access available to fewer than 10% of Native Americans on tribal reservation lands. The lack of broadband access is caused by a collection of challenges, including remote terrain, inadequate funding, and complex telecommunication policies. Yet Native Americans need reliable avenues for participation and contribution to Internet content to strengthen their communities. This project investigates technologies that will increase Internet availability on reservation lands. Further, it will develop new methodologies of disseminating Internet content to reservation residents, prioritizing content by relevance during periods of limited connectivity. Ethnographic methods and interviews of Native Americans residing on the reservations will be incorporated to ensure usability and utility of the proposed solutions. Through the trial of the solutions within Southern California tribal communities, the work has the potential to reach over 2,700 homes and 60 community anchor institutions. Within the three participating institutions, the PIs will include in courses results from the research that demonstrate the positive humanitarian impact of computer science in order to increase the appeal of computer science to female and minority groups. The goal of the research is to make critical inroads to addressing the lack of Internet access on tribal reservations, to increase the number of Native American reservation residents who are able to engage with, create, and disseminate Internet and on-line social network content. This project will achieve this goal through four related elements: (1) develop an architecture suitable for a multi-network setting comprised of cellular, wireless ISP and whitespace networks, where coverage, cost and network speed varies; (2) develop a tribal content distribution network, consisting of computation and storage at cellular, wireless ISP and white space towers across the reservation, that delivers content to and receives content from end users; (3) conduct a limited empirical study of Internet use and organizational network technology use capacity within the TDV community using ethnographic methods to inform the content prioritization and distribution mechanisms. Interviews will also be conducted and engaged in prototyping activities as needed to ensure that the system interfaces support use and administration by members of the community; (4) collect and analyze multiple years' worth of traffic from the TDV network to develop models of content relevance and consumption to prioritize content distribution in the network.

部落社区代表了美国互联网访问的最终边界，在部落预订土地上，不到10％的美洲原住民可以使用快速（宽带）互联网访问。缺乏宽带访问是由挑战，包括远程地形，资金不足和复杂的电信政策引起的。然而，美洲原住民需要可靠的途径来参与和对互联网内容的贡献，以加强其社区。该项目调查了将增加预订土地上互联网可用性的技术。 此外，它将开发出传播Internet内容以预订居民的新方法，在连通性有限的期间通过相关性优先考虑内容。 将纳入居住在预订上的美洲原住民的民族志方法和访谈，以确保拟议解决方案的可用性和实用性。 通过对南加州部落社区内的解决方案的审判，这项工作有可能吸引超过2700户家庭和60个社区主持机构。在三个参与的机构中，PI将包括研究的课程，该研究证明了计算机科学对人道主义的积极影响，以提高计算机科学对女性和少数群体的吸引力。这项研究的目的是为解决部落预订缺乏互联网访问而引起关键的进展，以增加能够与能够参与，创建和传播互联网和在线社交网络内容的美国原住民预订居民的数量。该项目将通过四个相关元素实现此目标：（1）开发一个适合由蜂窝，无线ISP和Whitespace网络组成的多网络设置的体系结构，其中覆盖范围，成本和网络速度会有所不同； （2）开发一个部落内容分布网络，该网络包括在保留地上的蜂窝，无线ISP和白空间塔的计算和存储组成，可为最终用户提供内容并接收内容； （3）使用人种学方法对TDV社区内的互联网使用和组织网络技术使用能力进行有限的实证研究，以告知内容优先级和分发机制。 访谈还将根据需要进行并参与原型活动，以确保系统界面支持社区成员的使用和管理； （4）从TDV网络收集和分析多年的流量，以开发内容相关性和消费的模型，以优先考虑网络中的内容分布。