Lab receives new funding from SSRC, ISOC

The Internet Society (ISOC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) have funded our team to collaborate with the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) on a study of the Tribal Digital Village, a rural wireless Internet connectivity project on Indian Reservations in rural San Diego County.

The Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association (SCTCA) is a not-for-profit intergovernmental association of sovereign Indian governments. The association represents about 8,000 people on 17 rural Indian Reservations in San Diego County and southern Riverside County, including nine Kumeyaay reservations, five Luiseno reservations, and three Cahuilla reservations. SCTCA also serves the sizeable Indian population living in nearby urban areas (estimated at about 16,000).

The research project was funded under the auspices of the SSRC's "Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications" Program and ISOC's "Project Funding Initiative." A photograph from the Tribal Digital Village has appeared on our homepage.

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