Ideas and Resources for Community Digital Strategies FNTC STRONG Conference Richmond, BC May 7, 2013 James Van Leeuwen Ventus Development Services Pincher Creek, Alberta jvl@ventus.ca
I’m a strategic consultant and entrepreneur from rural southwest Alberta.
If youth conSnue moving away to greener pastures, our community will not be sustainable. To enable our youth to ‘prosper in place’, my community must create new fronSers of economic opportunity.
The FoundaSons of Enterprise & Economy Manual Effort Intellectual Effort
Digital tools and the networks are acceleraSng, decentralizing and democraSzing producSon and leveraging of intellectual capital (knowledge, imaginaSon and ingenuity).
The essence of digital tools and networks is that they bring fronSers of opportunity to our hands, our homes and our businesses. These technologies will play stronger and more numerous roles in economy, community and society, and have become essenSal to community sustainability. Digital tools and networks will become at least as important to us as roads and automobiles.
CreaSng Opportunity: A Cost Comparison FINDINGS • It took $320‐m to create 3,000 industrial jobs at Daimler • $1‐m created 200 jobs in the Knowledge (TCCi) sector • 25 X more expensive to create industrial jobs • Knowledge jobs are 20X more valuable in terms of wages ‐‐ Chris Miller, CEO, Illuminomics
Digital tools and networks are being leveraged to miSgate physical, social and economic isolaSon, and to level economic playing fields. Smaller communiSes in rural and remote regions have the most to gain from these technologies, but are usually the lowest priority for telecom industries and senior governments. Smaller communiSes must therefore take the iniSaSve if they are to become full and effecSve parScipants in an increasingly ‘digitalized’ world.
Robust digital access networks are key; Ge^ng them requires a strategy.
PICTURE Strategy Pu^ng InformaSon & CommunicaSon Tools to Use in Rural Economies Over the last two decades, communiSes and naSons around the world have been craaing and implemenSng strategies to leverage digital tools and networks. PICTURE is a strategic framework disSlled from their experiences.
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Community Broadband Networks in Canada
The most effecSve community digital strategy: is developed and implemented by a community itself (is driven by community); • doesn’t rely on leadership from industry or government (is led by responsible ciSzens); • is fundamentally about people, possibility and opportunity, not technology (has meaning); • emerges from community values, needs and interests (starts where the puck is); • harnesses the energy and creaSvity of local youth (focuses on their future); • develops and communicates a compelling shared vision (engages and inspires); • acSvely engages and involves the enSre community (fosters internal collaboraSon); • engages neighbouring communiSes and governments (fosters external collaboraSon); • engages by showing and doing rather than telling (communicates through experience); • secures local investment and commitment first (gets the buy‐in that maders most); • builds capacity in four key areas (leadership, literacy, networks and services); • leads to development of abundance‐oriented future‐proof networks (FTTP w/WiFi). •
Resources for Digital Strategy Development : OrganizaSons First NaNons Technology Council www.fntc.info • Pacific Community Network AssociaNon www.pcna.ca • Intelligent Community Forum www.intelligentcommunity.org • i‐CANADA Alliance www.icanada.nu • Broadband CommuniNes Inc. www.bbcmag.com • Fibre to the Home Council of America www.Vthcouncil.org • Community Broadband Networks www.muninetworks.org • InsNtute for Local Self‐Reliance www.ilsr.org • Rural Telecon Congress www.ruraltelecon.org •
Resources for Digital Strategy Development : Events BC Broadband Conference Richmond, BC March 26 – 27 • Broadband CommuniSes Annual Summit Dallas, TX April 16 – 19 • BCNET Annual Conference Vancouver, BC April 30 – May 1 • FNTC STRONG Conference Richmond, BC May 6 – 8 • FTTH Community Toolkit Conference Kansas City, MI May 29 – 30 • i‐CANADA Summit Toronto, ON June 3 – 4 • Intelligent Community Summit New York, NY June 5 – 7 • FTTH Annual Conference & Expo Tampa, FL Sep 30 – Oct 3 • Cybera Summit Banff, AB Early October • Broadband CommuniSes Ec Dev Summit Somewhere, USA November(?) •
Resources for Digital Strategy Development : People Rick Adams, Roel Coert (QNet) City of Coquitlam Coquitlam, BC Laura Bradley (EORN) AcSonable Intelligence Brockville, ON Craig Dobson (O‐Net) TaylorWarwick ConsulSng Sherwood Park, AB James Van Leeuwen (OSLI SCWG) Ventus Development Services Pincher Creek, AB
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” [Franklin D. Roosevelt] James Van Leeuwen Pincher Creek, Alberta (403) 627‐8427 jvl@ventus.ca Skype: javanl
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