Transcript NCAI Exchange Network Strategy Discussion

Tribal Exchange Network
Involvement
Robert Holden, National Congress
of American Indians
Outside Looking In Perspective
• Tribes repeating the states’ initially cautious approach
• Historical Use of One-Stop grants => EN grants
– FRS data and node development
• Challenges:
– 562 tribes – all with different needs and capacities
– Linking tribal business drivers to EN offerings
– Non-tribal EN governance understanding of tribal issues
• Non-tribal EN governance education
– Tribal representation at all EN governance levels
– Non-tribal EN governance attendance/participation at tribal
events
– NCAI bridge to the EN (meeting & caucus hosting/sponsorship)
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New Initiatives
• Tribal Strategy Development
• Other tribal-initiated projects
– Open Dump Inventory
– Model RFP template
– others
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Draft Exchange Network
Tribal Strategy Development
• EPA OEI - American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO)
developed initial draft strategy
• 11/2006 meeting (OEI-NCAI) to revise, refine & update
strategy
• 3/2007 meeting with tribes, etc. for comments
– Goal:
• Make strategy representative of tribal thought and
experience for meaningful relationship with EN
• Develop viable strategy to increase EN tribal
participation
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Why develop a strategy?
• EN has the potential to assist tribes in improving
their capacity and exchanging information with
many partners
• Exceptional opportunity for tribes to participate in
EN governance and influence its development
• Same technology can support data exchange
with multiple agencies, tribes and other trusted
partners
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Why develop a strategy?
• Support ongoing work of tribes with grants
and continuing support for tribal funding
• Same technology can support the
exchange of data with multiple agencies,
tribes and other trusted partners
– land management focus
– Supernode concept
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Proposed Goal
• Tribal Target - By 2010, grant recipients that have
received 2007 or prior year Exchange Network grant
money to build a node or exchange data electronically*,
will be participating in the Exchange Network.
• "Participating" is defined as any of the following: 1)
node-to-node data sharing, 2) node client-to-node data
sharing, or 3) electronic transfer of data to CDX (i.e.
web-based) and subsequent publishing of the data by
EPA's CDX node to authorized Exchange Network
partners as appropriate.
*Some of the 2002 and 2003 tribal grants funded activities such as building
web pages and databases, but not node development or data transfer.
These grant recipients are encouraged to fully participate in the Exchange
Network as defined above.
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