Lone-Eagle-RFC-Submission2023 copy.pdf

RFC Submission for
USA’s NTIA, Digital Equity Broadband Initiatives
and the UN’s Global Digital Compact Initiative
Frank Odasz, Lone Eagle Consulting, email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Preface:
There is an international co-emergence of the same basic goal; the Top Down
needs to learn how best to partner with the Bottom-Up stakeholders who have yet
to understand how best they can benefit from Internet access at any speed.
These grassroots stakeholders, representing the majority of humanity, must validate
what best meets their needs as they learn more. The USA has a “Whole of Nation”
Big Picture Vision and has asked grassroots stakeholders to inform the design,
execution, and measurements to ensure the best results; based on their “lived
experiences.” This is my honest response based on a unique 50 years of “lived
experiences.”
Here are NTIA’s 24 questions requesting input representing unprecedented
openness aimed at maximizing innovative ideas from all concerned;
To view the full NTIA Request for Comment, visit: https://ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/
2023/digital-equity-act-2021-request-comments
The UN-Global Digital Compact, the Internet Governance Forum, the International
Telecommunications Union’s Partners2Connect database of over 600 pledges to
share innovations, and others, represent a rapidly growing International “Whole of
Nations” Global Counterpart: to the USA’s effort. (Links at the end of this doc.)
This dual RFC response to both RFC’s attempts to convene like minds to recognize
“We’re all in the same canoe” - and focuses on how best can we all work together
to resolve the many dire challenges we all face in 2023. I include Global
Grassroots Champions as my audience for this response, and all individuals whose
collective imagination, and latent potential, hold the future in their hands. I humbly
request your kind patience if I’ve been overly generous in sharing “too much.” I
feel a sense of urgency to be candid and vocal.

Summary Key RFC Points
RFC Point #1; Create a Big Picture vision all Americans can rally around; to keep
all humankind up to the same instant of progress for sustaining humankind and our
rapidly deteriorating planet environments.
RFC Point #2; Create grant mandates to champion new ways to bring all our
“diverse needs” communities together; online and offline. Much has been written
and modeled during the BBS online innovations in the 1980’s decade prior to the
WWW for online local building of community collaborative capacity.
RFC Point #3; Recognize what multiple international orgs and other nations have
realized, the Top Down needs to learn how best to partner with the Bottom Up
stakeholders to get everyone, everywhere, online with our joint opportunities
for survival in face of multiple dire threats to us all.
Zoom listening sessions are now global affairs.
Those grassroots stakeholders still offline need to learn validated best practices for
leveraging use of Internet to bring us all together locally, regionally, and globally.
Bad actors need to be more valiantly identified and posted on a global Wall of
Shame, as the Blackfeet tribe has done shaming those caught stealing from youth
development grants as one example.
RFC; Point #4 We need to create local leadership for youth programs teaching
local digital skills focused on the public good, measurable empowerment, and
make online self-directed learning a part of American, and global, culture.
A sermon in 1867 celebrated the first telegraph cable to Europe as the first step to
keeping all of humankind up to the same instant of progress. In 2023, we’ve not
been teaching best use of broadband benefits at anywhere near the level we should,
and we don’t warn new users about the growing risks, now exacerbated
dramatically by what A.I. misuse makes possible for individuals choosing to
become bad actors.
Ledger of Harms from the Center for Humane Technology
http://ledger.humanetech.com

Created by the Center for Humane Technology (humanetech.com) offering free
online courses for tech developers; associated with the movie “The Social
Dilemma” and in 2023, “The A.I. Dilemma.”
RFC: Point #5; Over the next 5 years, via the USA’s internetforall.gov/programs
we all need to steadily improve America’s visions for leadership and unity and
equity at all levels; designing continuing grant competitions to measure successes
at all levels, and share routinely what works best and doesn’t work at all. We are
either building a base of knowledge to sustain our future, or engaging only in the
politics of appearances, not the politics of transparency; undercutting our collective
potential for a sustainable innovation economy.
RFC Point #6; Americans need to follow related international efforts at
technosocial innovations to allow us all to come together to create a sustainable
global society and global environments. Think Globally, Act Locally.
RFC Point #7; As a simple, doable goal for humankind…. invite big visions from
those who have actionable proof of concept outcomes from replicable pilot
projects.
Many have learned how to teach anyone, anywhere, anytime, via online self-
directed online courses, as thousands of others are now doing. Everyone can be
both learners and teachers, consumers and producers; all the time.
RFC Key Point #8 It would be timely for convening all players with the same
goals to share successes I.E. NTIA, all states, all stakeholders, UN’s many orgs,
ITU’s many efforts, and all communities globally who can “Think Globally and
Act Locally.”
RFC Point #9; Smart Mandates: Our Joint Challenge:
Mandate celebration, and social recognition, for bottom-up grassroots individual
and community innovations with emphasis on identifying scalable best practices
for measurable empowerment for each unserved population. Use future funding
incentives for local communities most effectively modeling measurable
collaborative community capacity building using online proven best practices and
other methods.
Emphasis on communities who celebrate local innovators with social recognition
as community builders and as caring resources for mentorship services to empower
their local peers.

RFC Point #10; Adopting the Digital Culture recklessly can destroy cultures
and endanger individuals.
Flag misleading statements like “we’ll let tribes decide how they will use
broadband” without attention to whether they really know what’s ideal possible,
along with whether they are truly aware of the growing risks of being online from
both foreign and domestic bad actors. USA’s Internetforall.gov funding initiative
“ensures all Americans will have fast access” - toward what guaranteed positive
outcomes authenticated by the intended beneficiaries?
RFC Point #11; The Big Picture Vision for a Whole of Nations Chautauqua
Broadband connections offer each of us the chance to become proactive global
citizens united as stewards of our one human family, and of our precious only
home, planet Earth, and all its living things;
By competing negatively with each other, we’re holding each other back from
realizing what we can all become; locally and globally. Too much is on the table to
not have a rallying vision at this pivotal time; locally, nationally, and globally.
If we all share what we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge.
This ethos was proven through scientists openly sharing on the early Internet.
Foreign bad actors have split America using devious algorithms; we’ve been
dupped and need to once again become One Nation; indivisible by taking action!
RFC Point #12; Ongoing “ground-truthing” needs the voice of the grassroots
stakeholders for authentication.
Proven success motivating the participation of the beneficiaries depends on
successful adoption of first the Big Picture vision, and then their first adoption of a
succession of true online self-directed learning empowerment skills.
RFC Point #13; America should be a lighthouse of innovation for the world, with
free online curriculums, and dedicated online global citizen mentors, routinely
sharing new, better, fast-track transformational empowerment training as short
mastery learning lessons and ongoing engagement through virtual communities
and curriculums.
RFC Point #14; Our joint challenge is how to recognize that scouting for that new
knowledge to assure sustainable tribes is literally continuing the Native American
Tradition of Creative Adaptation.

RFC Point #15; Communities need local online initiatives to value peoples talents
and to share and celebrate the value of people locally, and to build online
communities; to learn from, and share with, other communities by creating a
sharing culture for ongoing sharing of everyone’s own people-generated
innovations.
RFC Point #16; As new stakeholders receive fast Internet for the first time, they
need to work with others to carefully assess the highest best practices of Internet
access for sustaining and celebrating their cultures while carefully learning how to
protect themselves and their community against the spectrum of real risks to
individuals, communities and culture.
RFC Point #17; Participation in the Native American Tradition of Creative
Adaption can leverage new tools and concepts to embrace to protect cultural
traditions; while highlighting their role as stewards of our one human family, and
of our precious home, Planet Earth’s diverse environments and all living things.
This has become our biggest opportunity for global leadership and is a traditional
responsibility that cannot be ignored. We can be totally traditional, and loyal to
our cultures, while also being a global citizen; we’re all the same in our diversity.
Key Contributions of Lived Experiences;
As an independent westerner, I’m not asking for funding, only to share my
somewhat unique lessons learned from my 50 year personal learning adventure
which started in 1970 when I graduated High School in Mountain View, California,
at the heart of what is now called “Silicon Valley.” Where I read someday, anyone
with a PC and Internet could “Make the Living They Want, Living Wherever They
Want.” That became my life’s goal.
Then I read in Future Shock, that adaptation to accelerating change will require a
roguishly open mind, tolerance for the worldviews of global citizens, and the
pioneering tradition of creative adaptation. It also warned those unable to adapt
will fear and fight change at all levels. I see this reality dramatically happening
now.
I see this battle between good, and evil, truth and misinformation, knowledge and
ignorance, now playing out at all levels; locally, nationally, and globally. Lastly,

Megatrends stated a truth; High Tech adoption requires High Touch mentoring or
the technology will be rejected.
I’ve lived these truths since I became an online teacher of teachers 40 years ago;
focusing then on personalized attention to each of the several thousand K12
educators and rural citizens I’ve had the honor to learn from; online… as to how
best to inspire and empower them with Internet self-directed learning skills and the
Big Picture vision we all need to be teaching.
Everyone both learner and teacher, consumer and producer, all the time.
To inspire others; I’d like to introduce myself as a self-taught rural Lone Eagle
who caught the big picture vision for how I could win an unprecedented level of
freedom from a mix of skills and mindset leveraging intentional use of the best
aspects of the Internet.
Starting in 1970, when I graduated High School; decades before the WWW made
my dreams doable; there were no personal computers, options for Internet access,
or even electronic bulletin board systems.
In 2023, I am currently limited to 10mb fixed wireless with which I’ve been able to
teach online courses to citizens and educators anyone, anywhere, anytime as I’ve
done for 35 years from rural SW Montana. I’m able to join Zoom video
conferences on a national, and international basis, and more; having learned to
routinely maximize the best practices, and the best tools and connectivity options
available as they continued to evolve.
Lessons Learned from 40 years online working with rural, remote, and
indigenous learners;
I came online in 1983, 10 years before the WWW appeared, using “low cost, high
imagination” available technologies for asynchronous text being online locally
through safe, free, local electronic bulletin board systems at 2400 baud on twisted
pair phone lines at $18/hour for long distance calls. The Big Sky Telegraph is now
a bit of history; http://lone-eagles.com/history.htm
“When you hear that modem tone, you know you are not alone.”

I’ve been a Lone Eagle “forging the online trail that others might follow” since
1997 prioritizing rural, remote and indigenous learners, since I left my asst.
professor role at what is now renamed as the University of Montana Western.
I have 40 years of hard lessons learned to share, recognizing that suddenly; the
current co-emergence of the belief that we all need to unite to share what we’re
each learning in order to jointly create the solutions to the many crisis situations
we all share; from climate disasters, mental health issues, political propaganda
from foreign and domestic bad actors who have, and are still; leveraging Internet
and social media to divide America by impersonating hateful Americans through
constant misinformation, while posing multiple nuclear threats with the intent to
blackmail the free world into submission.
Confessions from the Butcher of Syria;
“I react with pleasure,” Prigozhin said in the statement. “I’ve never just been the
fi
nancier of the
Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time. It was founded
to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian
narrative from the West.”
“Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere and we will interfere,” Prigozhin said in November, one
day before the US midterm elections. “Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we
know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.”
As a Lone Eagle, I’m living my dream in a remote ranch house in rural SW
Montana. I have no bosses, no employees and can teach anyone, anywhere,
anytime, as can you! By ‘riding the fast pony’ I have journeyed aggressively into
the future scouting the best, safest path forward.
While all I’ve prolifically created over 40 years is online without restriction I’ve
found fear of new ideas has been the biggest barrier to my sharing. I can’t lend my
wings to others until they are ready. And I see readiness all around me now as
“Necessity is the Mother of Invention."
I’ve kept exploring the new frontiers of individual freedom; unprecedented and
unbelievable to most. I’ve learned to absorb more new information daily that I ever
thought possible. I’ve worked to increase my productivity by constantly exercising
my imagination, updating my skills and mindset, and the more successful I’ve
become, the more independent and sustainable my lifestyle has become.

But also; to my chagrin, the less others around me appear able to understand what
they too can learn to do, made easier by digital tools becoming more powerful and
easier to use.
Your life is a gift from the Creator, what you do with it is your gift back to the
Creator.
My goal was to lend my wings to others; sharing my hard won freedoms; http://
lone-eagles.com/mission.htm by creating more Lone Eagles, finding youth far
more receptive and imaginative than many adults. But seeing in 1997 it would
likely take possibly decades before the majority of rural and global society will
have Internet access and are ready to learn how best to spread their wings, I’ve
kept exploring the ever greater future opportunities in order to be prepared for the
day when the co-emergence of this vision creates receptivity to welcome my story,
lessons learned, and actionable resources.
Suddenly, in 2023, there is co-emergence of our joint human potential, made
possible by widespread Internet access, digital devices and a growing number of
proofs that sharing empowers us all. Suddenly, the Top Down is learning how best
to partner with the Bottom Up majority of the global population as the digital tools,
faster connectivity, and the vision for accelerating mass innovation are quickly
becoming commonplace.
I’d like to say loudly I’m proud to be an American, challenged by those dupped by
foreign propaganda regarding ignoring their civic duty to understand and uphold
the constitution. I am aware President Biden led unprecedented success meeting
America’s needs amid political disinformation and particularly criticism about his
age. America, and many other nations share a growing population of seniors now
expected to live decades longer than their parents through attention to keeping
healthy minds, bodies and souls.
Collectively our elders represent a huge resource for upholding American values,
and participating in our new workforce needs through the wisdom of years.
From Koyukuk, Alaska on the Yukon;
“Elders Carry the Wisdom, Youth Carry the Torch.”
The Blackfeet Tribe in NW Montana believes the prime responsibility of individual
tribal members is to support the sustainability of the whole tribal community.

“From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs” is not
a communist socialist plot but the basis to consider for all Americans tasked with
contributing to the common good. It is common sense and our common ground.
John F. Kennedy gave the nation a one-liner vision we all could relate to;
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country.”
His physical fitness initiative gave Americans baseline standards tasking each
American with achievable goals.
We need similar actionable goals for sharing broadband empowerment innovations
authenticated by the grassroots stakeholders, as well as by leadership at all levels.
USA’s NTIA RFC (link in preface above) almost sounds like grassroots
stakeholders are promised “the clouds will part and the angels will sing” once
Uncle Sam delivers fast Internet to them, not requiring any effort on their part
other than paying ISP’s a monthly commission.
This might be backward; stakeholders need to realize the power of smart use of
broadband collaboration is necessary through their own hands-on “lived
experience.” The challenge for mass innovations must include all Americans
working to meet the challenge for mass empowerment.
The NTIA RFC emphasizes the ongoing need for grassroots “ground-truthing for
what works best” on how to make this all happen; though most grassroots
stakeholders have not yet heard a motivating vision like JFK’s above so they need
to successfully share the Big Picture vision, get online, learn first skills, and join
the cause for “forging the online trail that others might follow” to ensure our
sustainable future.
And to ensure the USA’s goals of a sustainable people-centered economy, and a
global civil society, where every citizen has a voice without threats of
incarceration, torture, or death; as is the current reality in too many countries.
Research by Publicity; Modeling Actionable Replicable Methods for Creating
more Proof of Concept Pilot Projects for those with limited, or no Internet
access, as well as for those with the fastest access available.

Consider a research project testing what’s the best we can do with K12 schools in
Kenya, the control group is without Internet but is leveraging offline learning using
the best tools such as offline browsers to share the hands-on learning experience of
simulations of being on the web, accessing locally the best of the best most
appropriate and motivating internet resources. Their source of offline browsable
resources might be another school with Starlink’s satellite Internet, physically
delivering on multi-terabyte mobile hard drives highest quality regularly updated
subsets of the very best learning resources from global sources.
An impressive model for offline learning already exists in Kenya thanks to Nelly
and Tyler; http://techLitafrica.org
Starstruck with Starlink is a developing concept paper, offering potential
additional ways to help them scale to 1000 schools or more. They have funding for
expanding to 100 schools now.
Example Level of Demos to excite anticipation for future Internet access:
With a 3D mouse ($80) and using the free “ google earth pro” anyone create a
short eye-popping demo video.” Zoom into space and look back to see the Earth in
the distance, then zoom in and spin the globe, then zoom in to any address (mine in
Montana) fly around, hover at low altitude, explore, and then find links with
images, and videos, tagged at geolocations by netizens all around the world - as a
big picture introduction video (even offline) to what’s really possible with a fast
Internet connection.
Securing the motivation to learn more is the first step and there is no reason
myriad such examples cannot be distributed to all those not yet connected.
Fast is relative, I have 10mb only in Dillon, Montana, USA, but I’m amazed at
what all I can still do, like the live demo above, and more, everyone needs to
become aware of; “what they can learn to do too” once Internet access, training,
and personal devices eventually become available.
Such demos can be sent to inspire, and motivate, to anyone. anywhere, anytime, on
a thumb drive or 5 Terabyte $100 hard drive; dropped by a drone to remote
locations as Rwanda is already doing with medications. Daily mail planes such as
those to remote Alaskan Native villages is another example.

Here’s a 10 year old 34 second video of older adults creating 17 new websites
posted on a new community website, all in 45 minutes; listen to the buzz of
excitement.
Conducting Your Own Community Web-Raising - 34 seconds only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pawE6ITPAxQ
Workshop resources; http://lone-eagles.com/web-raising.htm
And more videos like this one.
20 years ago, my Blackfeet friend, and I, passed out laptops to 12 Small Business
Development directors of regional offices and had them all create websites as
shown in the video. Yesterday I saw that SBA now offers businesses website
building help. That it took this long for such an obvious innovation to take hold
baffles me. I’ve learned creative adaptation is a cultural trait that takes time.
Barriers to Recognizing the Value of Sharing Innovations:
Only in North America is Internet shunned by nearly half of rural citizens who are
unaware of all that they can learn to do for themselves and others. Innovators are
shunned, and replicable innovations viable for all peer communities are often not
shared.
America should be a lighthouse of innovation for the world, with free online
curriculums, and dedicated online global citizen mentors, routinely sharing new,
better, fast-track transformational empowerment training as short mastery learning
lessons and ongoing engagement through virtual communities and curriculums.
An educator called me from Texas recently expressing no awareness of
internetforall.gov funding, and had no Internet. He has a black box with robust
STEM curriculum and wireless to classroom devices which he uses to teach youth
in poverty the skills and mindset for participation in our innovation economy. How
many other American innovators are unaware of available funding? And how many
have affordable replicable innovations like this educator; unheralded?
We all need to give a voice, and funding, more directly to those who have never
had a voice, starting by creating an opportunity for them to first be inspired by all
the wonderful examples of people helping people via the Internet, and the rapidly
increasing number of validated, replicable. self-empowerment stories so many
individuals have already realized.

We need to welcome more stories of lone eagle self empowerment; touting their
freedom to be whomever they want to be, with the historically unprecedented
power to help others anyone, anywhere, anytime; using skills available to all.
Inspiration resulted by hearing this “Whole of Nation” idea on a Zoom video
listening session from Angela Thi Bennett; director of NTIA’s digital equity
programs https://www.internetforall.gov/program/digital-equity-act-programs
How ‘right thinking this idea is, and how timely and necessary.’
That we need to articulate the Big Picture vision to include all the Top Down
players along with all unserved and underserved grassroots stakeholders is a
“Whole of Humanity Opportunity," now that the majority of the world’s population
hopes to be online by 2030 as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal states.
Initiating Simultaneous Global Recursive Short Term Pilot Projects;
Recursive short term pilot projects are needed; delivering rolling continually
improving proof of concept validation for replicable innovations for the most
disadvantaged grassroots learners, as well as those already enabled with fast
Internet.
Alaskan Native Villages Story; Recipients of first Satellite Internet in 1998
Many big Internet Service Providers have lobbied Congress leveraging large sums
of money to win huge subsidies based on programs to ostensibly meet the dire
needs of remote Alaskan Native villages, and rural communities, and then too
many delivered no vision or proven skill development citing ‘we’re not in the
training business.’ Villages that received their first Internet via satellite in 1998
have minimal empowerment outcomes to show in 2023, as new federal funding
again goes primarily to the bigger ISPs. We get what we measure.
I provided the first internet workshops to 11 Alaskan Native villages on the Yukon
in 1998, noting their resistance to digital skills was leveraged by the ISP’s
unwillingness to provide a vision for what they too can learn to do to sustain their
culture and villages. When I showed up in Nulato, with an art tablet, digital
camera, musical electric keyboard, laptop, multimedia projector, and a sleeping
bag; I had plans for hands-on learning for 2nd graders on up.
Slight problem, as I looked out the library window at the frozen Yukon River with
snow blowing sideways; there was a pole that was supposed to support their new
Internet satellite dish’s location; finding it had not yet been installed.

I was prepared for this however; having brought software to provide effective first
hands-on Internet browsing experiences and more. Many believed they were on
the Internet until I told them they were not really online, but would be soon.
But what I remember most was the profound sense of peace and quiet, soon to
disappear once global connections would be installed.
Being born in the Wyoming Rocky Mountains, I have a personal visceral
connection with wide open spaces. What would Internet bring to Nulato?
Sustainable incomes for young families via remote work? Media to celebrate their
Athabaskan culture; elders stories, youth’s creativity, bringing the community
closer together; more sustainable, with needs routinely met? I knew Nulato would
soon change forever; would it be for the better I hoped?
I started to wonder what short online lessons I might offer as follow up to my visit,
teaching them how they can learn-to-learn online as a start for learning all the
greater things they can learn to do.
25 years later, 8 youth in Huslia. population under 100, committed suicide during
one winter, on average one in 35 Alaskan Native males are in prison. I wasn’t
funded to continue my visits beyond 1998, though I did teach online courses for
Alaskan educators for the 20 years following for the Alaska Staff Development
Network. Did iPhones and social media cause the suicides due to peer
cyberbullying? I don’t know. I wished I could have done more.
Innovation diffusion is really tough.
My last presentation in Alaska in 2017 was for the International Arctic Broadband
Forum and my 34 minute video presentation and an 8 minute vision for “The
Alaskan Native Tradition of Creative Adaptation “ and more is at http://lone-
eagles.com/arctic.htm My last NTIA tribal handout is at http://lone-eagle.com/
ntia-big-sky.html and 20 years of similar events are listed at http://lone-
eagles.com/new.htm along with links to the custom handouts for each event.
At this conference the statement was made; Broadband is like fire; you can cook
your food, warm your home, sustain your traditional culture, or burn down
the whole village.

Community-Building and Crowdsourcing are the methods of inviting all
innovators to work together; to solve shared problems but are too often ignored
by those who believe their competitive advantage for grantwriting (as an example,)
is to not share innovations they have found to benefit their community.
Multiply this by 10,000 rural communities and they are their own worst enemies;
compounding their collective disadvantage by not working together to form a
mutual support network and realize the power of a collective voice.Together, they
could compete with the largest urban cities in America.
This is as true for each rural community, and urban neighborhood, as our greatest
barrier to the potential empowerment once fast internet is available. That only 58%
of rural citizens will subscribe to fiber once it passes their home is due to no one
has bothered to offer the Big Picture vision, or awareness training, for what they
can learn to do, or to facilitate sharing examples of their peers’ successes; often
replicable in all other communities.
The return for investment of $65 billion for broadband should produce a
quadrupling of this investment, or more, if the majority of those intended
beneficiaries are motivated to participate, instead of not understanding what skills,
and mindset, will allow them to best benefit from broadband.
And at the individual level, where can they find support, and a mutual support
network of encouragement? Lone Eagles, alone in the wilderness, need a way to
find like minds; birds of a feather, to collectively spread their wings accelerating
all innovational efforts by keeping each other up to the same instant of progress.
It is common for learners to have no support for their self-directed learning locally
due to local cultural resistance. This creates the opportunities for learners to
become online mentors; a viable role to support other learners, whether peers, or
those newly aware of their huge opportunities.
This mindset for self-directed learning is all the more important as we’re at the
dawn of AI innovations that promise wonderful new empowerment capabilities to
accelerate the learning power of innovators. But bad actors will be also empowered
to threaten the best efforts of innovators working to empower the public good.
A battle between good and evil is upon us, between freedom and human rights and
cruel anti-intellectual authoritarians. Good folks now fear hateful trolls online,

violent radicals in their own rural communities, and too many are now silenced by
fear.
Individuals can choose to act, ideally helping their communities step up, as well,
and virtual whole nations of purpose can evolve quickly. We’re limited only by our
collective imaginations.
After 35 years teaching online; now with many lessons learned, I know anyone can
potentially empower millions with scalable self-directed online learning, and local
mentor strategies that teach others to go beyond what others have done; being now
able to leverage newer better tools appearing at an accelerated rate, even daily.
One troubling social dynamic is sometimes the more attention one receives from
outside the community the more they are shunned; natives who go to college come
home to find they are shunned for their new knowledge; often perceived as being
tainted by the white dominant culture. There is a perceived threat to protecting
traditional culture posed by new knowledge in our time of accelerating change.
Our joint challenge is how to recognize that scouting for that new knowledge
to assure sustainable tribes is literally continuing the Native American
Tradition of Creative Adaptation.
The Internet originally brought together global scientists to share knowledge for
the good of all humankind. Pre-www was a decade of local online innovations
using the efficiencies of asynchronous text to build local collaborative capacity
building skills. An avid part of that era of innovation was a movement called
“community networking.”
The concept disappeared in the mid 1990’s replaced by bowling alone, and the
dominance of astroturf organizations pretending to be the voice of grassroots
citizen organizations. Too many communities are not active communities anymore,
and are communities by name only. The Internet allows online shopping beyond
the community, and the option of virtual communities of interest and purpose,
potentially minimizing participation in local geographical communities of place.
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the
compassionate actions of its members
Coretta Scott King
What is Community Networking; And Why You Should Care; 1995

www.comtechreview.org has a special section on community networking resources
including the following Lone Eagle article: What is Community Networking;
And Why You Should Care
http://www.comtechreview.org/fall-2005/000347.html Many related links are
listed in the overall publication.
In 2023, the Internet has become a dangerous place causing youth suicides, foreign
bad actors impersonating angry Americans pushing conspiracy theories to naive
rural folks, particularly the under educated, resulting in misguided patriots
attacking the capital police with flag poles flying the American flag - no less?!
America, and global democracy, is under fire due to bad actors, foreign and
domestic, using the Internet and social media and algorithms to mislead voters in
our national and International nations’ elections using certain social media
company’s secret divisive ‘products’.
Internetforall.gov needs to advocate smart use of Internet to bring Americans back
together starting with identifying what we all really do believe in.
Communities need local online initiatives to value peoples talents and to share and
celebrate the value of people locally, and to build online communities; to learn
from, and share with, other communities by creating a sharing culture for ongoing
sharing of everyone’s own people-generated innovations.
If we all share what we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge.
Why this isn’t happening is we’re too much a mercenary capitalistic society; we
care about money, more than our own people.
I’m a part of all whom I’ve met. Will Rodgers - Global Citizen
Humankind is reaching the point where most of the worlds’ population will be able
to access fast Internet to meet the many dire challenges of the modern day; climate
change impacts in particular. The UN, ITU, and others have the goal of getting the
remaining 3 billion citizens online by 2030 while addressing basic needs of clean
water, food security, safe housing, healthcare and how to participate in the global
innovation economy with a smart mix of skills and mindset.

In the early 1990’s, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment cited:
“The content for an effective National Information Info-structure can only
come from the citizens themselves.”
The Broadband Technology Opportunity Project announced in 1992;
“ BTOP joins the Gates Foundation with the intent to fund as many grassroots
projects as possible, from which to learn which innovations can best be
brought to scale, nationally. “
This great idea was to be a major crowdsourcing initiative but never happened.
As new stakeholders receive fast Internet for the first time, they need to work with
others to carefully assess the highest best practices of Internet access for sustaining
and celebrating their cultures while carefully learning how to protect themselves
and their community against the spectrum of real risks to individuals, communities
and culture.
Everyone, everywhere should have the opportunity to learn from others the best
and worst of Internet access, and particularly how to empower local communities
celebrating local innovators and practicing the benefits of “If we all share what
we know, we’ll all have access to all our knowledge. There’s too much going on
to ignore the power of all of us in this way; we’re better together, locally and
globally, in the age of accelerating change.
In times of change, learner’s inherit the Earth
Eric Fromm
FINDING COMMON GROUND
In 2000, USAID funded Lone Eagle Consulting to create Common Ground; A
Self-directed Cross-cultural Internet Guide http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm
with emphasis on K12 learners and teachers. It was soon distributed via microfiche
to all major US libraries via the ERIC; Educational Resource Information
Clearinghouse.
80 pages of Common Ground were used by ATT in 2003 as part of their advocacy
for Community Networking. This document exists as downloadable WORD
document, ready to print, and as an online version; free to all.
COMMON GROUND: A baseline beginner’s simple first curriculum

At http://lone-eagles.com/fourlev.htm is a simple four part digital literacy
introduction based on the 3 essential skills to establish the basis for the #4
transformational outcome of “enlightened expectations” for what more is possible
with imagination, collaboration, and Internet access to learn more.
Additional versions were later created; all of which are listed at http://lone-
eagles.com/guides.htm as well as an evolving series of self-directed online courses
sharing many collected exceptional resources.
The Native American Tradition of Creative Adaptation
Gathered innovations from Indian county in the US are the basis for a Native
American Cross-Cultural Self-directed Internet Guide http://lone-eagles.com/
nativeguide.htm
Just as the Blackfeet tribe tasks tribal members with the responsibility for
community first, so do tribes hold the responsibility to share with all tribes how to
celebrate and sustain diverse tribal cultures with new knowledge about the best
uses of being online, and knowing what abuses can result in damage to tribal
members and cultures. From individuals to communities to cultures to all global
Nations….we are all in the same canoe.
Participation in the Native American Tradition of Creative Adaption can leverage
new tools and concepts to embrace to protect cultural traditions; while highlighting
their role as stewards of our one human family, and of our precious home, Planet
Earth’s diverse environments and all living things.
This has become our biggest opportunity for global leadership and is a traditional
responsibility that cannot be ignored. We can be totally traditional, and loyal to
our cultures, while also being a global citizen; we’re all the same in our diversity.
*Barak Obama has a Nature documentary on Netflix; Episode #1 shows a map of
where 18% of Earth’s environments are now protected by indigenous stewards.
The International Telecommunications Union is an advocate for this uniquely
appropriate form of indigenous stewardship. I hope to learn more.
Now is a unique time in human history where we all have the opportunity to have
global voice to support unity around our shared survival. We’re better together.
I’ve been told we’re all indigenous? Those of us who feel the responsibility to
honor and preserve our Planet Earth and all its living things might qualify. Those

who destroy these, do not quality. Perhaps this is an individual choice; Who do you
think YOU are?
International Leaders for Mass Innovation;
United Nations Global Digital Compact
https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact
A global convening of innovators intent on sharing to generate
the exponential potential of human talent yet untapped everywhere.
International Telecommunications Union Partners To Connect database with
an open call to all innovators share, and benefit of those already sharing, to
empower our one human family and support our precious Earth and all its living
things. https://www.itu.int/partner2connect-pledges/
Pledge to share your resources while benefiting from the 600+ pledged resources
already a part of this one-year old global Call To Action!!!
Internet Governance Forum
https://www.intgovforum.org/en
Join the discussion; encompassing all aspects of remaking the Internet to be all it
was originally hoped to be by the original founders. We’ve work to do together.
United States of America:
National Telecommunications Information Agency and more:
internetforall.gov See all programs http://internetforall.gov/programs (!!)
A historic “Whole of Nation” project requiring everyone’s proactive imaginative
participation.
Digital Equity For All
https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/events/latest-events/internet-all-webinar-series-
digital-equity-act-request-comment-overview
Optimal inclusion, equity-for-all, and more; valuing our diversity as one of
America’s greatest strengths; a well-spring of latent talent to nurture our joint
creative adaptation. We’re better together.
US Census The Opportunity Project 12 week innovation sprints.
https://opportunity.census.gov/

The Opportunity Project is a program of the Census Open Innovation Labs at the
U.S. Census Bureau.
Submit your best problem statements for TOP experts to create teams for solving
them!! Use government data to build digital tools with, by, and for the people.
The Top Down literally learning how best to partner with the Bottom Up, including
Technology experts, and grassroots stakeholder advocates, students and more.
In its 7th year, the best is yet to come. Now working with Puerto Rico’s rebuilding
after 2 hurricanes, an earthquake, and a pandemic, to create a model of
sustainability and adaptability for the world. President Biden has put $106 billion
on the table as a challenge for all concerned to participate meaningfully; the
ultimate bootstrap project!
Grassroots Champions
Below are model harbingers of what’s to come, now of necessity, fast and
furiously, Grassroots Champions working to link all humankind to the same
instant of progress with ongoing mutual support networks as the new
emergent global culture emerges for “ensuring” our mutual survival.
Below are just a few examples of the Booming number of exciting grassroots
innovations by Grassroots Champions; They need global recognition and
more funding! “We need to fund as many grassroots innovations as
possible, from which to learn what best can be brought to scale
internationally.” *Validated by grassroots “ground-truthing."
Offline Learning for All in African Schools; Kenya
http://techLITafrica.org A personal favorite; we need more like this.
Kudos to Nelly Cheboi !!
See their three mindsets, and the advantages of Offline Learning for K-5.
A model that can scale to all remote learners cost effectively to prepare learners for
when fast Internet becomes available; via “Starstruck with Starlink” if by no other
means. (a concept paper under development.)
Australia’s Regeneration Movement
Kudos to Damon Gameau!!
http://regeneration.org
http://theregenerators.org
Damon’s 10 minute Tedtalk at ted.com relates when society turned against nature
to exploit it; forgetting that we need to cherish and protect our only home; precious

planet Earth and its delicate ecosystems and biodiversity; all living things; of
which we’re only one species.
Associated with Paul Hawkins author of
Regeneration; Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
https://www.amazon.com/Regeneration-Ending-Climate-Crisis-Generation/dp/
0143136976 Rather begs the question of what could the youth of the world really
be capable of with this vision, community climate clubs, fast Internet and the
Power of All of US?? The book has wonderful photos and written accounts of
efforts all around the world. Well worth $16 at amazon.com!
Center for Humane Technology
http://humanetech.com
Free online course aimed at tech developers
Ledger of Harms of Social Media and Internet abuse
http://ledger.humanetech.com
Tristan Harris’s Netflix film “The Social Dilemma” ten years ago now has a
sequel, a one hour “The A.I. Dilemma” available on youtube along with videos
from Tristan and the Center for Humane Technology.
Lone Eagle Consulting Whitepapers and a Big Sky Telegraph early history
Sample Lone Eagle Resources to be shared without restriction;
Hundreds more searchable via our internal search engine.
http://lone-eagles.com/
APEC Whitepaper for NTIA 2008 presented in Tokyo
http://lone-eagles.com/social-engineering.htm
Social Engineering:
Implementing Meaningful Rural ICT Capacity Building Metrics
Executive Summary:
In 1867, when the first transatlantic telegraph line was completed evangelical
sermons were given on the historic importance of humankind being now capable of
keeping each other up to the “same instant of progress.” Such visions are not new.
In 1910, promoting the new technology called the “telephone,” the statement was
made “with each new user the power of the network becomes even more
powerful.” The potential of everyone using ICTs to contribute to the benefit of
all has been considered the most common sense application, without question.

America’s Historic Challenge to Fund Mass Innovation
without the risks of political backlash due to lack of documented results
RFC to NTIA/BTOP, USDARUS, April 13, 2009
http://lone-eagles.com/getitright.htm
One of many appeals to the Top Down to learn how to best partner meaningfully
with the Bottom Up Innovators.
Rural Broadband and Quality of Life
http://lone-eagles.com/rural-broadband.pdf
A short summary of sustainability imperatives for rural citizens and communities
to protect our cherished rural lifestyle.
What is Community Networking; And Why You Should Care; 1995
www.comtechreview.org has a special section on community networking resources
including the following Lone Eagle article: What is Community Networking;
And Why You Should Care
http://www.comtechreview.org/fall-2005/000347.html
Many related links are listed in the overall publication. This early history is what’s
missing in 2023 now that so many have Internet access and devices. But, we’ve
come full circle after seeing abuse and misuse of our joint community building,
and nation building, potential once online at any level. Caring and Connectivity are
the keys to building vibrant sustainable communities.
Big Sky Telegraph; 1988-1998
http://lone-eagles.com/history.htm
Pre-WWW online innovations relevant to global pre-Internet training using free,
local, safe online systems to teach local online collaborative community capacity
building, establish local mentoring connections http://lone-eagles.com/
mentorsurvey.htm and netiquette; productive online collaboration skills.
Cited for excellence by the Whitehouse and four reports by the Congressional
Office of Technology Assessment and much more. More relevant today than back
then; we’re coming full circle rediscovering People-Centered building of local
community collaborative capacity is essential to create sustainable communities.
New book by Internet founder Vint Cerf;
The People Centered Economy; The New Ecosystem for Work.
The Native Alaskan and Native American Tradition of Creative Adaptation
http://lone-eagles.com/arctic.htm 2017 Intl. Arctic Broadband Conference

Dozens of similar hot lists of collected innovations by Native innovators, and more
are available via search at http://lone-eagles.com (internal search engine) Native
innovations have taught me a great deal. (Beware white men with good intentions
who might bring unwelcome changes to traditional culture.)
Nativeheart Mission Statement:
Combining Caring and Connectivity for Sustainable Tribal Communities
http://lone-eagles.com/nativehearts.htm
One of many collections of indigenous innovations on the web and strategies to
empower and celebrate culture while protecting traditional culture from known
risks of being online to the Internet. We get what we measure.
Rural and Indigenous Grant Templates for Whole Community Engagement
Community empowerment and engagement grant templates for rural, remote, and
indigenous learners; http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm
Grantwriting Key Tips; http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm Sharing new metrics
for evaluation of ideal transformational outcomes were the reason these templates
were created to be shared broadly without restriction.
Self-directed Online courses open to all; including Rural Ecommerce and
Telework Strategies: http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm
Make the living you want, living wherever you want. As I did in 1997; last century.
Contact:
Frank Odasz, Lone Eagle Consulting, email: frank@lone-eagles.com
Extensive free content online without restriction; with an internal search engine;
http://lone-eagles.com Keeping busy creating more resources to share; Starstruck
with Starlink as one of many concept papers.

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