Race for the Net. "...due to a lack of capital". February 2022

https://raceforthenet.com/book/ About the Book In 1993, an African American company achieved one of the most critical roles in technology history — opening access to the Internet and World Wide Web for the global community.  More than 4.2 billion people currently utilize the Internet today making it the most crucial technology of the 20th and 21st centuries adopting and changing of people’s lives around the world today and in the future.  No other company has had more to do with bringing the Internet to the global community than the original Network Solutions, an African American founded technology company. Tragically, due to a lack of capital, Network Solutions and the African American Community were unable to substantially reap the financial rewards. In 1995, during the period of significant internet growth, the founders were forced to sell the company for only $5 million. Then, in 2000, less than five years later, the company was sold again for $21 billion in what was, at that time, the largest sale of a non-telecommunications company in history. The inability of the founders to raise sufficient capital to allow them to maintain control of the company that opened the door for people around the world to use the Internet was a major business calamity!  RACE FOR THE NET tells the story of the origin and rise of Network Solutions, and the vision and sacrifices of its founders.  The book discusses issues related to their historical accomplishment and what led them to relinquish ownership of the company.  Additionally, the book looks at the future of the internet revolution, and the digitization and mechanization of our society. This book is an excellent read for those who want to know how the Internet became a public entity and how an African American company was responsible for linking the world. RACE FOR THE NET provides a “road map” for the reader on various areas that are still open for opportunities on the internet today. While pointing out shifting job opportunities and risks of future technology of the Internet of Things (IOT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is estimated that Internet technology provides more than $7 trillion to our economy today.

 

2022 National CERT Conference Announcement August 18 through Saturday, August 20, 2022

2022 National CERT Conference Announcement 

The National CERT Association (NCA) is excited to announce that the 2022 National CERT Conference Registration is now OPEN!!!

The 2022 National CERT Conference, is planned by a National Conference committee, in partnership with FEMA Region 6, and is hosted by the Galveston CERT program.  The conference will be held at the San Luis Resort and Conference Center, Galveston Texas.  The main conference will be Thursday, August 18 through Saturday, August 20.  Pre-conference training will be held Monday, August 15 through Wednesday, August 17.

Conference Highlights

The 2022 National CERT Conference Theme is “Talking CERT to the Next Level” and will feature presentations and workshops led by CERT leaders across the US.  Agenda highlights include an Equity Panel, presentations on CERT Resource Typing, and CERT Disaster Response lessons learned (including Covid19).

A welcome reception will be held on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.

Pre-Conference training

Pre-Conference training will feature several high-demand training opportunities including:

·         CERT Train-the-Trainer Course (August 15 – 17)

·         CERT Program Manager Course (August 16-17)

·         Wide-Area Search (August 15-17)

·         Volunteer and Donations Management and Spontaneous Volunteer Management Combined Course (August 16-17)

*Participants must register in advance for pre-conference training.  Space is limited and course are expected to fill quickly.  Pre-Conference Training will be an additional $50 to cover the cost of lunch.  Pre-conference participants must register for the main conference.

Conference Hotel

The 2022 National CERT Conference will be held at the Galveston Convention Center at the San Luis Resort.  There are 3 hotels on campus at the San Luis Resort.   A number of rooms have been reserved at special conference pricing at all three hotels.  Prices are the same at all locations $129 per night single occupancy, $169 per night double occupancy.  IF you call for reservations, must inform them that you are with NCA for the reduced room rates.  Resort fee, taxes and parking not included.   Shuttle service between hotels and Conference Center is included (provided by the hotel).

1.    San Luis Resort and Spa     (We were unable to get a link to work, please copy and paste the following text to your browser: https://sanluisresort.reztrip.com/classic/en/special_offer?action=show&controller=landings&locale=en&rate_code[]=NCA22&rate_code[]=NCA22&starting_page=special_offer

2.    Holiday Inn                           Reserve your room click here 

3.    Hilton                                    Reserve your room click here

 

Book your rooms early as the room blocks are expected to sell out. 

Conference Registration

Conference Registration is $550.  

Early Bird Registration is $450 (ends May 17^th)

NCA Members who are Active CERT Volunteers get a reduced registration costs of $330 with verification of CERT affiliated organization.   See website for further details.

*Note that there is an additional $50 charge above the prices listed above to attend pre-conference training. 

Click Here to register for Conference or Pre-Conference Training:  Conference Registration

Sign up for the 2022 National CERT Conference email list here:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2022NationalCERTConferenceEmailList

NCA’s Dedication to supporting CERT Volunteers

Volunteers are the backbone of the CERT program.  The NCA wants to support the attendance of CERT volunteers at the National CERT Conference.  In addition to the lower registration cost of $330 for CERT Volunteers (that are NCA members), 150 volunteers (that are NCA members) will receive an additional $105 off.  The NCA has allocated a portion of the conference sponsorships to provide volunteers that are NCA members with this special discount.  The first three volunteers, from each state or territory, that complete the surveymonkey below will be given a special registration code for the discounted ticket.  All other requests will be waitlisted.  On May 1, 2022, the waitlist will be open and the volunteers that have requested the discounted tickets will receive a special code (in chronological order), until all 150 discounted tickets are exhausted, regardless of their state or territory.

To request a discount code for registration, please fill out the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VSYTFPT  It may take 24-36 hours to receive your code if you are approved.

Want to support the 2022 National CERT Conference?

If you are interested in attending our conference as a Vendor or Sponsor, please contact the Conference Chairman, Jamie Cunningham at Jamie@NationalCERT.org

Want to present at the 2022 National CERT Conference?

If you are interested in presenting a workshop or training at the 2022 National CERT Conference, please email the conference agenda chair, Ellen Pinder, at Ellen.pinder@charlottecountyfl.gov.

Stay connected

To get more information about the National CERT Association go to our website at https://nationalcert.org If you have any questions feel free to call or text 239-825-8075.

 

Grant Opportunities: February and March Technical Assistance Webinar Series

FEMA Presents: Fiscal Year 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program Technical Assistance Webinar Series February 18 and 22,  |   March 4, 10, 16, 25,    |  April 1    each session will begin at 3pm ET

Please join Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD), in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for a series of webinars about the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). The NSGP provides funding support through a competitive process for facility hardening and other security enhancements to nonprofit organizations at high risk of a terrorist attack and promotes emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration between public and private community representatives, as well as state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. For your information this grant program will be available in New Jersey, New York, and the USVI, but is not currently available to applicants in Puerto Rico. Who should attend? Faith-based, community, and nonprofit organizations.

 

Register using the links below Dates and Time Registration Link 02/18/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1614373005  02/22/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1616518053 03/04/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1614042372 03/10/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1602354220 03/16/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1619667216 03/25/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1612960254 04/01/22  3pm https://fema.zoomgov.com/j/1610707162

Does the network still exist in all aspects and systems of EM? February 2022

 Does the network still exist in all aspects and systems of EM?

Top-Down (Fed level), and Bottom-up (township, city).

Change is slow,.

old-boy net·work
/ōld boi ˈnetˌwərk/
noun

an informal system of support and friendship through which men use their positions of influence to help others who went to the same school or college as they did or who share a similar social background.
"many managers were chosen by the old boy network"

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2021/08/08/report-good-old-boy-network-has-flourished-in-the-vermont-national-guard

Black History Month. Recovery: First Nations in Recovery. New Mexico PBS--NLFRTA stands on the shoulders February 2022

 A message, a narrative, a story

 

We are One.

 

Recovery-You may normally think of recovery in relation to an individual or a community suffering from a crisis event.  Recovery can also occur within a nation, a culture of peoples devastated by some event that has uprooted their heritage, or their culture out of their normal practice that has persisted for generations.

 

Black History Month is not just about the ‘Negro’, the Colored, and African American, the Black experience for equity, justice, housing, jobs, medical & health care.  But a month for all (Black, Latino, communities of color) that have experienced and are recovering from unjust and immoral practices.

 

We are ONE  (Do not get it twisted.  We are ONE), the Rural Coalition, the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, and BEMA International

 

Una Lucha Por Mi Pueblo | New Mexico PBS Nov 30, 2009 http://www.newmexicopbs.org - Corridos are ballads, often referred to as windows that look into the soul of a people. They are the songs of the time, supplementing recorded documents as historical artifacts that describe the popular consciousness at the time in which they were written. This week, we experience the songs of corridistas, Antonio Martinez, Roberto Martinez, and Chuy Martinez. These land grant activists wrote about the centuries old struggle. Their feelings have been kept alive in song. The story they tell surrounds the Flores family's struggle to retain a portion of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant, due for development by an Arizona consortium. This case is only a small part of the larger struggle of indigenous people displaced from their land. The legal issue of the occupation of land by activists has recently been settled out of court, but the larger issue of the dispossession of land remains. COLORES | Una Luncha Por Mi Pueblo | New Mexico PBS www.knme.org - Corridos are ballads, often referred to as windows that look into the soul of a people. They are the songs of the time, supplementing recorded documents as historical artifacts that describe the popular consciousness at the time in which they were written. This week, we experience the songs of corridistas, Antonio Martinez, Roberto Martinez, and Chuy Martinez. These land grant activists wrote about the centuries old struggle. Their feelings have been kept alive in song. The story they tell surrounds the Flores family's struggle to retain a portion of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant, due for development by an Arizona consortium. This case is only a small part of the larger struggle of indigenous people displaced from their land. The legal issue of the occupation of land by activists has recently been settled out of court, but the larger issue of the dispossession of land remains.   WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYiTB7eUzVk OWN: www.flickr.com/photos/knme/sets/72157622621025519/bit.ly

 

 

 

 

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.

bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization "It is my belief that the best results in business come from a creative process, from the ability to see things differently from everyone else, and from finding answers to problems that are not bound by the phrase 'we have always done it this way.' "  Wayne Rogers

BLACK FARMER TAKES ACTION IN FIGHTOVER STALLED $4 BILLION RELIEF FUNDING February 2022

Food Insecurity

https://whoswhoinblack.com/black-farmer-takes-action-in-fight-over-stalled-4-billion-relief-funding/

 

BLACK FARMER TAKES ACTION IN FIGHTOVER STALLED $4 BILLION RELIEF FUNDING By Zuri Anderson   February 9, 2022 A Black farmer is speaking out amidst the legal battle over $4 billion in federal aid meant to help minority farmers.  Dr. John Boyd Jr., a fourth-generation farmer in Virginia and the president of the National Black Farmers Association, told The Hill he’s been pressuring lawmakers and the Biden administration to help Black farmers in need. President Joe Biden signed off on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package almost a year ago, and part of that money was meant to assist minority farmers facing serious debt during a crippling global pandemic. However, white farmers alleging discrimination have contested the aid in courts across the country, meaning the money cannot be paid out to those who need it. “It’s a do-or-die for a guy who owes a couple hundred thousand dollars to the government,” Boyd says, adding that he’s been trying to get a meeting with the president over the stalled money. “They’re saying they can’t interfere with the courts is what they’re telling me … and I’m saying that it’s got to be something that can be done.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture told The Hill in a statement that it “continues to work closely with the Department of Justice to vigorously defend” the allocated funding. The agency also found that Black farmers own less than 2% of the nation’s farms while white farmers own over 96%, citing rampant discrimination over the nation’s history. Boyd himself described the racial epithets and disparity he’s experienced ever since he started farming at 18. The Virginia farmer was also the subject of a public battle with then-USDA agent James Barnett, alleging discrimination when Boyd was denied a loan. “He was only seeing Black farmers on Wednesday, and he carried on with the discrimination like this is what he does every day,” Boyd recalls. His civil rights advocacy also extends to eye-catching demonstrations, such as riding his mule to Washington D.C., and reaching out to lawmakers. “We can’t just be consumers as Blacks. We got to be at the table and a part of these companies making sure that we get our part here, too,” according to Boyd. You can read more about this situation here.

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International   Washington, D.C.  20020 bEMA International   Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there issuch a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time.  Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity.  This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here:  Chaos or Community’.

 

 

Upcoming Events for Veterans. February 2022

 

Upcoming Events

Feb 15, 3-4 p.m. - Stress Solutions
Feb 15, 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Creating Calm In Stressful Times
Feb 16, 12-1 p.m. - Wellness Wednesday Financial Education: Student Loans
Feb 16, 1-2 p.m. - Artificial Intelligence: How Algorithms Improve Veterans Lives
Feb 16, 1-2 p.m. - National Cemetery Administration: Pre-Eligibility and Burial Benefits
Feb 16, 2-3 p.m. - Veteran Get Hired Workshop
Feb 16, 3-4 p.m. - Wellness Wednesday Financial Education: Student Loans