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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