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The Future of Rural Community Development
Making the Living You Want,Living Wherever You Want
Frank OdaszLone Eagle Consultinghttp://lone-eagles.com
Big Sky Telegraph 1988-1998
1-2 room rural schools 4 Congressional Reports Online Learning and Mentoring RFTS -’93 Alaskan Villages and Home-schoolers Six Migrant Technology Projects Over 10 Years with Community Networking Common Ground Internet Guide and
Echoes in the Electronic Wind - Native Am.
Big Sky Telegraph Early Insights
Can’t Push a Rope Perceptions VS Realities Drivers, Riders, Draggers Haves, Have-nots and Will-Nots Will-nots Paradox, feeling stupid
Giving people the gift of themselves
To Be All We Can Be: Overcoming our Historical Mindset of Powerlessness
We’re always ready to learn, never to be taught; Learning to Learn - The Benefits!
Caring, Connectivity and new skills *must* work together if we are to match unmet needs with appropriate resources.
Three Historical Firsts
Instant Global Information - Unrestricted Self-directed Learning
Cheap Global Multimedia Self-Publishing - Free Global distribution for education and ecommerce
Cheap, Efficient Global/Local Collaboration --- 10 Collaborative Tools
Youth are Key Technology Leaders -- Youth as change agents
The New Gold Rush
Leapfrogging with Free Web Tools Best for the Most with the Least Inspired and Motivated = Empowered Motivating all potential innovators Everyone Both Consumer and Producer The Relationships Age: increase in quality and
quantity of relationships locally and GLOBALLY!
Skills Needed to Become Knowledge Workers
Self-directed Learning with Search Engines Collaborative Sharing - 10 Internet Tools Global Web-Self-publishing (Multimedia) Relationship-building, mentoring and teaching Visioning Capacity - An Entrepreneurial Mindset is
Necessary If we are to build
--- Sustainable Learning Communities
Are You Ready?
Morgridge - 180,000 students in 74 countries Mastery Learning Engine Coopetition - Users Mentor Users -
450 Billion Market Capitalization Community Applications Training? Ecommerce - www.sba.gov/classroom 24 districts in S. Idaho - herding cats
Is Faster the same as Smarter?
Volume Bandwidth (Physical Infrastructure)
Value or “Human” Bandwidth (Social Info-structure)
Wallowing VS Optimizing
Individual Instrastructure Options
http://concentric.com and WebWhacker http://bluesquirrel.com
http://directpc.com http://dishnetwork.com http://tachyon.net http://wireless.oldcolo.com
Information condenses to Knowledge which condenses to wisdom and value is created in a knowledge economy.
Suggested Action Initiatives for Clyde
Hold a Press Release Competition Begin hosting Community Tech Nights Hold a Local/Global Web Content
Competition -Instructional Web Tours Hold a Web-raising for Local Citizens Start a Teleliteracy Drive Create a Talent Roster/Database
Community Mentoring Program
Create a Youth Ecommerce Competition
Local MIRA Workshops - team building and proposal writing
Create a Local Bootstrap Guide CD Fundraiser - Thinkquest Model Celebrate and create local champions, list local
Ecommerce successes Storytelling as a Strategy;
--become a model community Find Ways to Measure Your Success
Bootstrap Academy http://lone-eagles.com/bootstrap.doc
Culture Club http://lone-eagles.com/cultureclub.htm
Community Networks 1986-2000
100+ Freenets and National Public Telecomputing Network
La Plaza - 1995- first Rural Web CN 1998 - Missouri State CN Initiative 1998 - CTCnet.org and CTC Models Citysearch, Digital Cities, Sidewalk, etc. Did the CN Movement Die or is it Yet to be
Born?
What Problems are We Trying to Solve?
Confusion - What’s a Community Network?
Four Models of Community Networking
1. Community Access
Community Technology Centers (Schools and Libraries)
Public Offices with computers Kiosks Loaner Laptops Recycled Computers!
2. Community Education/Skill Development
Step by step Online Mastery Learning Successive Milestones with Incentives and
Recognition Citizen-to-Citizen Mentorship Online Community Talent Database
3. Community Publishing
Helping everyone get a web page! Showcasing local content and innovation Showcasing the best global content, locally (Coming) Personal Portals Using Free Web
Tools
4. Community Participation
Everyone both learner and teacher, all the time Online Discussion and Idea Sharing Participatory Decision-Making 10 Collaborative Tools on the Internet Building individual and Community Collaborative
Capacity Evaluative metrics to monitor success or lack of it.
What Are Other Communities Doing?
Converting Existing Businesses to Ecommerce
Posting products on the web Getting a Merchant Account (Credit cards) Strategies to increase access by Search engines
- Metatags Partnering with similar sites to
‘point to each other’ http://business2.com for 10 New Rules Local Web Mall VS Global Marketing
Community Economic Dev.
Broadband to attract Companies (Train Us!) Telemarketing Call Centers Telecommuting
– Insurance Underwriting– Medical Billing and Transcription
IT training and Community Colleges Rural Teleworker Training Virtual Incubators,
Venture Capital/Philanthropy
Stories and Strategies
Lusk, WY - A Second Try - (CESA) Taos, NM Kellogg MIRA project
http://www.wkkf.org http://Laplaza.org Dillon-net.org - creating home-based
Businesses, Ebay, Collecting Proliferating Rural Innovations Gob-smacked Down Under - Scouting
What would it take to make your community a national model?
High Speed Internet (Eventually) Motivating Awareness Programs Effective Citizen Engagement Social Recognition and mentoring Successive skills development for everyone Local content and best of Global content Visioning and Trends-Awareness Capacity New Evaluative Metrics to measure success
Seven Hard Questions
Q1 - Should we focus on infrastructure, then training, or
progressively expand both together?
Q2 - How will we all learn to use the best free web tools to produce the most tangible benefits on an
ongoing basis?
Q3 - Who will provide the best content brokerage and fast track
online training solutions (Best for Most requiring Least Time and
Effort) on an ongoing basis?
Q4 - How can our community keep up with the increasing
numbers of innovations by other communities?
Q5 - How can we assess our community’s collaborative
capacity using Internet?
Everyone both learner and teacher, all the time.
Cells, Brains and measurable collaborative capacity.
Q6- Who can most quickly generate widespread awareness
and motivation of new small Ebusiness startup process?
Make the Vision Accessible Via Awareness Programs
Remove the barriers Via local mentors and CTCs Promote Replicable Successes Via Cookie
Cutters
Q7-What Are We Going to Have to Learn to Do Differently?
Creating Knowledge Workers Changing Behavior Upgrading skills and perceptions
Can We Change Fast Enough?
DEMO: cameras, idahoconf, pennmira, panos, objects, art, HB, Currtour,
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Handouts: http://lone-eagles.com/clyde.htm
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