Pilot Project w. Alaska Native Heritage Center - workforce training
ANHC is looking for innovative technology solutions to facilitate remote training on working with native Alaskan communities.
Read the description below to learn more about their needs and apply to work with ANHC on this important project.
Broad Challenge Theme
Overcoming workforce and labor challenges
Context
Please provide a brief overview of the company and your situation as it pertains to the specifics of your experience with the broader challenge identified above.
The Alaska Native Heritage Center has a history of providing cultural awareness workshops for key businesses and entities that engage in economic activities around Alaska. Our core customers have been in the fields of environmental remediation, resource development/extraction, and healthcare.
Our team wants to digitize these workshops and make them more user friendly for the digital space. We also want to execute updates to our materials to better suit the particular needs of the industries that we serve so that there is some bespoke materials that work best for their needs.
Pilot Requirements
Please describe your ideal solution to the challenge identified above. If you don’t know if this exists, that is okay. Specifics of your organization's needs go here, including timeline implications for the project.
The ideal solution to the challenge above would be a digital platform that offers people a variety of courses that allow them to build proficiencies that facilitate good working relationships with Indigenous communities in Alaska. The offerings would ideally have three categories:
(1) self-guided training, (2) live guided training, ie zoom classes, and (3) in person trainings.
We’d love for it there to be specified curriculum that serves educators, environmental techs, resource extraction companies, and governmental employees.
Technology Environment
Content management systems, digital delivery platforms, e-commerce
Additional Benefits of this pilot
If you plan to contract for a full project, list here. Also potential growth that could attract startup interest.
People working with Indigenous communities have a much easier time developing relationships, which leads to more effective and seamless projects in rural Alaska.