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This program aims to enhance community leadership through engaging local technical talent, increasing IT diffusion, and improving economic opportunities. By focusing on infrastructure access, individual capabilities, and organizational capacity, it drives sustainable growth and enhances quality of life.
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COMMUNITY DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT • Community leadership driven process • Engages local technical talent • Increases diffusion and adoption of Information Technology (computing and telecommunications) though projects • Improves productivity and competitiveness, create economic and social opportunities, and enhance quality of life in the community.
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT COMPONENTS • Infrastructure access & availability • Individual awareness & capability • Organizational capability • Public • Private
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME Infrastructure Individual capabilities Organizational capabilities Development Level Time
Projects Projects Individual Capacity Leadership Projects Tech Facilities Organizational Capacity COMMUNITY DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT Source Laudeman – http://greg.laudeman.com
SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT • Community led • Focus on benefits to people – not technology • Projects that improve • IT access, diffusion and adoption • Human capacity • Economic and community development
Southern Rural Development Center FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.ConnectingCommunities.info