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Mapping the Future of Your Community

Mapping the Future of Your Community. Rural TeleCon ’06 October 24, 2006 North Little Rock, AR. Welcome to the River City Connected Communities Town Meeting. Today We Will Discuss. The future of River City using a community futures quiz and map Overall perspectives on IT

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Mapping the Future of Your Community

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  1. Mapping the Future of Your Community Rural TeleCon ’06 October 24, 2006 North Little Rock, AR

  2. Welcome to the River City Connected Communities Town Meeting

  3. Today We Will Discuss • The future of River City using a community futures quiz and map • Overall perspectives on IT • In-depth description and vision of a Connected Community • Technology applications • IT Tools you can use

  4. Community Futures Quiz Community Leadership - Circle the score that fits your community. You can also use this for organizations, businesses, or governmental units, or for individuals. High Low 5 4 3 2 1 1) Does your community (citizens, organizations, and businesses) have a shared vision created by leaders and citizens together? 5 4 3 2 1 2) Are the leaders of your community responsive to changes in the environment, passionate about your community’s future, and organized to take action? 5 4 3 2 1 3) Does your community leadership invite input and participation in decisions on major issues impacting the community? 5 4 3 2 1 4) Does your community have a culture of openness, learning, and innovation? Add these to find your Total Community Leadership Score Total Community Leadership Score: ___

  5. Quiz, cont’d Harnessing the Forces of Change - Circle the score that fits your community. High Low 5 4 3 2 1 1) Is your community taking full advantage of information technologies, the Internet, and broadband connectivity to reinvent businesses and organizations in the global economy? • 4 3 2 1 2) Does your community understand how to prosper in an era of declining manufacturing jobs? • 4 3 2 1 3) Does your community understand the importance of improving quality of place and having a map of its strategic assets? • 4 3 2 1 4) Does your community support and actively participate in a regional development initiative? Add these to find your Harnessing the Forces of Change Score ____ Total Strategic Knowledge Score

  6. Overall Perspectives • Grant from the Arkansas Community Foundation to develop a Connected Communities Program and test it with a pilot community. • You will involve your community in action workshops, leading to a technology blueprint for the future of your community • A strategic perspective

  7. VisionWorks News

  8. Research has shown that communities and regions that take advantage of the Internet:* created more jobs and higher paying jobs,* expanded markets for local markets, and * increased tourism into the region.National Center for Small Communities

  9. What Has Happened • The world has shrunk and flattened. • Broadband makes everything “across town”. • This is a huge breakthrough for rural areas, if we learn how to take advantage of it.

  10. Three Possibilities • Digital City – everyone who is connected by broadband – always on, 24/7/365. • Dial-up Doldrums – everyone who is connected with dial-up modems over POTS. • Deprived Distant – everyone who does not use the Internet. • Not a moral judgment; example

  11. Connected Communities are communities or regions that garner their human, technological, and financial resources to take full advantage of: * information technology, * the Internet, and * broadband connectivity to accomplish their goals.

  12. What does a Connected Community look like?

  13. The 6 A’s of a Connected Community / Region 1) Alliance of Visionary, Collaborative Leadership 2) Awareness and Education about Technology 3) Allocation of Resources for Technology 4) Application of Technology to Real Needs 5) Availability of Affordable Broadband Infrastructure and Connected Places 6) A Transformed, Prosperous Economy

  14. Using Technology to Address Real Needs (Technology Applications)

  15. Community Broadband Applications • Business & Industry (e-commerce) K-12 Education • Telemedicine, incl. home health care Libraries • Distance education & workforce E-tourism preparation E-government • Non-profit organizations E-agriculture • Services for persons w disabilities Public Safety • Business & technology telecenters Telework

  16. Personal & Organizational Applications • Web pages, e-mail • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • Global Positioning Systems (GPS) • Surveymonkey.com, Zoomerang.com • Wiki, Wikipedia.com, Google.com, Amazon.com • Podcasting, Blogs, Chat Rooms, RSS • Streaming video, e-Bay • On-line community of interest & strategic planning

  17. IT Tools • Community Futures Quiz • Community Futures Map • Total C.D. Model Worksheet • Action Planning Worksheet • Information Technology Survey • Draft Total Community Development Model in the Digital Economy

  18. Exercise • Five groups – Economic Base, Physical Infrastructure, Support Systems, Human & Socal Capital, Leadership Infrastructure • For your group: • What would your layer look like 5-10 years from now, in a fully connected community? • What strategies would you employ for River City to move forward – to realize that vision? • How would you allocate resources to support these strategies?

  19. The Internet is about business transformation, not a web site. Successful companies have a deep understanding of how the elimination of time and geography change the way we work, communicate, and live. Peter Fingar and Ronald Aronic The Death of “e” and the Birth of the Real New Economy

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