Why is the Native Public Media Blueprint Project important to you?

It’s easy for me to answer that because I use the Internet for work: to write emails, post photos, send audio files, graphics, and PDFs. My work requires me to write articles, reports and to do research. My personal usage includes paying bills, shopping and surfing. However, because of where I live it can take me along time to accomplish some of these activities. I live in the slow lane, so to speak, in the country on the edge of the West Coast on the San Andreas Fault. There is no DSL, and broadband via cable just arrived in my neck of the woods two weeks ago, and the much touted speediest of all FIBER, fahgetaboutit!

I have to use a satellite to do all these things. I’m not happy about it but it has gotten me by. My boss and office workers often forget that I also don’t have cell service at home and leave messages that I retrieve weeks later when I’m town and in a cell zone.
The irony of this is that I’m known as the office ‘geek” and have the wonderful title of Media Architect. And yet there are times when I can’t even get on the Internet. Messages like “satellite outage, please try again later” drive me crazy!
So I know how important internet access is to rural people and why it is vital that everyone who needs access should have it. Native Public Media wants the highest speeds possible for all who don’t live in cities. And we want it to be priced fairly without restrictions on fair use. Overuse and abuse is a different issue.

So what does this have to do with the NATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA  Blueprint project and you?

NATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA  wants to ensure that no matter where you live, from the Redwoods of the West coast to the mountains of Montana, the desert of the southwest, the grasslands of middle America or the rural areas of the eastern woodlands and the south eastern bayous. We want you to have Internet access so that you can use it for work, to play and most importantly to participate in our American democracy. So please fill out our online survey and help NATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA  provide the decision makers in Washington and on your Tribal council the information needed to create an ideal world with Internet access for all American