Understanding the Digital Sovereign Strategy Board
The Native Nations Digital Sovereign Strategy Board serves as a face-to-face facilitation and roadmap to discuss the many important subject areas that may be encountered in Native Nations Digital Sovereignty. The strategy board is designed as a table game to serve as a set of exercises to elicit Goals and opportunities, challenges and improvements, and risks and mitigations. As progress is made, eventually new Goals and Opportunities are reached and the cycle continues as a continuum of evolving locally relevant solutions.
Each strategic planning exercise will be conducted to clarify local priorities, concerns, and perspectives with regard to chosen subject areas. Threat and vulnerability are immediate when crossing the digital Divide. There are many advantages that come with digital equity. But one must look to both the advantages and the risks to successfully navigate the technological wilderness.
The Native Digital Ecosystem
7x7Gen reimagines the Native Digital Ecosystem with what is possible for native nations in a world of digital equity. The Native Digital Ecosystem envisions: Critical Infrastructure Modernization; Information Management; People and Culture Solutions; Mother Earth Natural Balance; and Clean Air and Water solutions to be of vital importance.
Pictured is the “Communications Critical Infrastructure” from a 1885 Telecommunications monument in
Tahlequah Oklahoma, the Western Band of Cherokee Indians capital. The monument serves as an early example of indigenous entrepreneurship in the Communications critical infrastructure. The national Critical infrastructure sectors represent the collaborative management of National, State, Tribal, and commercial vital services.
National Critical Infrastructure Sectors
- Chemical Sector
- Communications Sector
- Dams Sector
- Emergency Services Sector
- Financial Services Sector
- Government Facilities Sector
- Information Technologies Sector
- Transportation Systems Sector
- Commercial Facilities Sector
- Critical Manufacturing Sector
- Defense Industrial Base Sector
- Energy Sector
- Food and Agriculture Sector
- Healthcare and Public Health Sector
- Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste Sector
- Water and Wastewater Systems Sector.
Information
Pictured for “Information” is a brand from my grandfathers barn in Proctor, Oklahoma. Information is presented in many ways, and in this case, a trademark of livestock ownership prior to the digital age. Now, in the digital age, information exchange has evolved and information protection is much more complicated. The need for protection of digital intellectual property and sensitive information has vastly expanded and presents many information management and protection challenges,
People and Culture
Pictured for “People and Culture” is Da Ow Aga at sunrise. Otherwise known as Lake Tahoe, the ancestral heart of our Washoe culture. People and culture solutions to social, cultural, intergovernmental challenges. Language preservation and finding Missing and Murdered relatives are priority concerns. Additionally, federal policy and Treaty Obligation and Trust Obligation may also be addressed in the People and Culture panel.
Mother Earth
Pictured for “Mother Earth” is May Lake at the geographic center of Yosemite National Park. From May Lake one can can look down on Half-Dome. Many are at the forefront of action to address climate change, air pollution, and chemical contamination to life giving waters. Native Nations DREAM is in support of such urgent action and presents an indigenous risk managed path forward to natural balance.
Air and Water
Pictured for “Air and Water” is Oahu, HI, north shore, taken on a ohana pilgrimage to our Hawaiian homelands. Clean air and water are essential to life, for all flora and fauna. Therefore clean air and water must be preserved for future generations. An urgent effort to protect clean air and water is an ongoing necessity.
Cybersecurity, Physical Security, and Resilience
The side panel illustrates concepts for integrated Cybersecurity, Physical Security, and Resilience (Cy-Phy-Rez). Where “Rez” is a composite of three kinds of resilience: Critical infrastructure resilience to disruption of services; Community resilience to disruption with safe-haven and life-safety during a time of crisis; and environmental resilience to climate crisis. Native digital ecosystems are reimagined in digital systems, where Cy-Phy-Rez practices are intrinsic for secure sovereign digital transformation.
Digital Readiness, Education, Advanced Modernization (DREAM)
The DREAM vision includes the subjects of: Leadership, Workforce Development, Economic Development, Natural Resource Management; and Emergency Services. These concerns move beyond the digital technical concerns to advancements intended to build independent control of digital assets, information and data, infrastructure, networks, systems and software. We finish with honoring the dreams of those yet to come.
