Why have a Native American Technology Journey? A large and growing number of America's Native American Families are making technology an important part of their daily lives. They regularly use the technologies that affect most facets of their lives.

As someone interested in the growth and quality of life of Native American Families, please consider the following opportunity to make a lasting positive impact on your community. This year, Career Communications Group, Inc. and IBM Corporation, the National Corporate Founding Sponsor, will launch the Native American Family Technology Journey, an important, new national program aimed at helping Native American Families take advantage of 21st century technologies to enhance their quality of life.
 
The Native American Family Technology Journey joins two other comparable and very successful programs also founded by Career Communications Group and supported by IBM as the National Corporate Founding Sponsor. The National Black Family Technology Awareness Week, has been helping Black Families take advantage of emerging technologies while La Familia Technology Week has been supporting Hispanic Families in the same way for the past six years.
 
Community, business, political, and educational leaders agree
that technology is a major driving force for our economy and in our lives. Those family members who are able to take advantage of these evolving technologies on a day-to-day basis are experiencing a world that presents opportunities for better education, better jobs, better health, financial stability, and a promising future. Unfortunately, the gap continues to grow between those who are able to use this expanding set of technology tools and those who are not. "Native American Family Technology Journey: Weaving Technology with Tradition" is a national public awareness journey focused on helping those families who want to succeed and can use these technologies to help them open the door to a better future. Your organization's leadership and participation in the Native American Family Technology Journey can offer them that opportunity!

The Native American Family Technology Journey provides the platform for organizations such as yours to help Native American Families gain the technological literacy and access to high-technology skills that are essential for survival and success in our 21st century Digital Age.

Organizations, families and individuals, have the opportunity to make a major difference in the lives of Native American Families in your community by committing to lead a Native American Family Technology Journey activity or event this year. The events focus on the impact that technology can have on the lives of every family member in areas such as:

1. Education: pre-K-12, postsecondary, and lifelong learning
2. Careers and Jobs: job skills, job opportunities, careers in
engineering, science, and technology
3. Health and Nutrition
4. Starting and Operating a Small Business
5. Family Financial Management