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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,


• ur
community
will
not
be


sustainable.
 
 To
enable
our
youth
to
 ‘prosper
in
place’,
my
 community
must
create
 new
fronSers
of
economic


• pportunity.



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,


• ur
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


• f
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.


(I.L.S.R.)


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