1. Richard Anderson

2.  2 year Tribal College  Established 1968 as Navajo Community College  7 sites,  Main campuses  Tsaile, AZ  Shiprock, NM  Current enrollment 1,830 students

4.  26,000 square miles  Population (2000), 175,000  Long walk, 1863  Indian Removal Act

9.  One Computer Science Instructor  BA Math, MS CS, PhD Philosophy  Lots of experience teaching at Tribal Colleges  Courses  CS1, CS2 ▪ Reges and Stepp text  Hardware  Networking  Operating Systems  Web Design  Discrete Math

11.  5-week course on refurbishing computers  Rebuilt computers and made them available to the community  Visiting instructor from MIT

14.  Met with students from CS courses  Presented a short overview of UW Developing World Projects  Used CAM as an example  Showed the CAM video from website  Mentioned medical protocols and digital study hall

15.  Previous years – intensive quarter long project course  This year – Developing World Technology  Three quarter sequence ▪ Background seminar ▪ Design studio ▪ Intensive quarter long project course  Goal – partner with student project groups at Heritage University

16.  Animal identification and tracing  Erosion control  Plant identification  Artisan  Provenance  Connection of supplier to consumer  Recycling  Land records  Diet monitoring

17.  Cows, Horses, Sheep  Problems of keeping track of ownership  Identification of brands  Reporting of locations  Determining ownership of unbranded locations

18.  Water is the critical resource  Student comment on “fence in the air”

19.  Student comment on the need for the reservation to set up recycling  Issue identified of illegal dumping  Identifying  Recording  Publicizing

20.  “Everyone is involved in a land dispute”  Mention of existing services based on GPS

21.  Traditional arts  High value  High mark up  Competition with Mexican, Thai, Belgian, Pakistani imports  Opportunities  Connect consumers/producers  Support authenticity  Establish value  Issues  Artists often traditional, Navajo speaking  Cultural concerns ▪ Business instructor found lack of interests in using eBay for marketing

22.  One student had worked on a summer project doing a census of invasive species  Data recording/identification done by hand

23.  Diabetes problem mentioned

24.  These did not come up from the students  Very sensitive area

25.  Computing technologies widely applicable in developing world  Successful deployment requires deep understanding of local context  Basic technologies applicable in many different contexts  Design technology to support local modification / deployment

26.  CAM  Digital StudyHall  DigitalStar  PDA support for decision trees

27.  Strong interest in having technology applied  “We are a developing nation”  Problem areas are highly relevant to ICTD  Likely benefits to UW and TCs  But not likely to yield a large number of transfer students to UW  Partnerships  Need administrative support and faculty / student connections  Possible approach to work with AIHEC

28.  Link to student project groups  Teach an Introductory Programming Class over the summer (aimed at transfer students)  Teach a Developing World Technology seminar at Dine over the summer