Video: Tribal Partners in Building Broadband Infrastructure

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Our national experience of working, studying, and engaging from home during a pandemic was a master class on the impact for those without broadband internet access. The indigenous tribes of California have long experienced that deficit, and Matt Rantanen, referred to as the Cyber Warrior for Tribal Broadband, is dedicated to eliminating that connectivity gap. This session will focus on the development of intensive Tribal Broadband Bootcamps that have provided the technological and human groundwork for engaging with GOLDENSTATENET to bring fiber infrastructure to tribal communities in California. Rantanen, director of technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association, will share Bootcamp stories of developing the human network at the core of the resources needed to deliver fiber to hard-to-reach communities.