President Clinton Uses Alliance Access Grid

In mid-April, President Clinton visited Dine' College's Shiprock, New Mexico, campus as part of his "New Markets" tour. The college has two Alliance Access Grid prototypes -- in Shiprock and also at their Tsaile, Arizona, campus. College staff used their Access Grid nodes to see the President conduct a scheduled webcast between their sites and Lake Valley Navajo School, a K-12 institution in Navajo, Arizona. Dine' College, the first Tribal College on the Grid, also projected President Clinton's visit to the other six additional Access Grid sites around the country.

The PACI Education, Outreach, and Training (EOT) program hosted the President, who spoke on the digital divide among minority and non-minority communities. AHPCC EOT Manager Evans Craig chronicled the President's visit.

The Access Grid will be used extensively in the upcoming Alliance Chautauquas at OSC in June and the University of Kansas in August. In addition to the host sites in Ohio and Kansas, Alliance partner sites in Boston and Washington, DC will be open to participants.