Technology will be linked to the heart and spirit of Tribal Colleges and the tribal cultures of their students. The initiative will assist each Tribal College in its efforts to realize its local technology goals and objectives. Tribal communities and individuals are, on average, falling increasingly behind mainstream communities in achieving access to high performance computing capabilities. Information isolation in tribal communities exacerbates the effects of geographic isolation. All tribal colleges have developed different levels of technology and technological expertise, and each college has different technology related goals and objectives based upon community needs.
New wealth arises from the development and use of new technologies.
The building and maintenance of successful technology infrastructures requires long-term sources of income. The mission of the Tribal College High Performance Computing Initiative is to coordinate and facilitate the provision of direct services to individual Tribal Colleges based upon the needs and goals identified at each college. These services will include help with developing resource opportunities, obtaining resources, technical support, and human and technical resource building. By providing these services, the Initiative will help Indian people achieve educational and economic leadership in the Information Age. To improve the existing human, hardware, and software technology infrastructures at individual tribal colleges in order to enable each college to fulfill its own objectives related to the needs of the students and communities they serve.