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This is the Digital City project presentation, focusing on three areas: workforce development, building on-line interactive multimedia and providing an open Digital City platform - for all to build on top of.
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Digital City Project
Innovating workforce development with social media
3 areas of focus
• Workforce development• On-line multimedia content and services• Digital City Open platform software
infrastructure• The chess game….
Innovating Workforce Development
• Connecting Cyberspace to Meatspace• Interactive Multimedia Content and Services• Dashboard software• Virtuous circle of volunteerism and training• Software Infrastructure• Sustainable Business
Model
On-line world connects to Real world
• Getting people comfortable with computers• All jobs in the future will require tech skills• Learning by doing• If they can:– play videogames– use an ATM or remote control– program their mobile phone
Social Media as a vehicle
• Social Networking• Blogging• Activity Streams• Meetups• Flash Mobs• Groups
Haves helping the Have Nots
• Matching knowledge and expertise to those who need it
• Volunteers operate Live Video Help• Master craftsmen work with Interns• Urban Farming, Senior Citizens, Health clinics• Wide range of job skills
I used to be famous• 22 years ago I said I wanted to build
Multimedia Encyclopedias
MacroMind/Macromedia
• 1st multimedia player = 1984• 1st multimedia authoring system = 1985• 1st author once, playback on many platforms =
1988
But we needed to be on-line
• Between 1990-1994 85% of CD ROMs were created with our tool - Director
• 25,000 titles, only room for 300 in the channel• Then the thin straw came along (dial-up Internet)• We went backwards (no more video or photos)• 15 years later we’re right back to where we were
Wikipedia is bricks & mortar
• Text + Photos• Community creation• Web links• 2M entries• But the old school form of
knowledge and education
Interactive On-Line Multimedia Content and Services
• Picking up where the Multimedia Revolution left off in 1994
• Video, simulations, annotated diagrams, animated charts, visualizations
• Multimedia Encyclopedia is how people will learn and knowledge will be stored
• Every Foundation, Government and Brand has a topic or issue they’ll sponsor
Multimedia Encyclopedias
• Animated Charts of battles• Videos and exploded annotated diagrams of
Green Jobs skills• Interactive simulations of Polymers• 3d Visualizations of any data or info
Free Dashboard software
• Social Networking• Activity Streams• Blogging• Media Sharing• Live Video Help• Points• Volunteerism• Training• Facebook Import
Virtuous Circle
• Utilizes live Video Help to intern and train• Volunteerism• Training• Points• Live Events• Project management and coordination• Based at digital bureaus
What is a Digital City?
• In the 90’s = access• In the 00’s = social media• In the 10’s = software infrastructure
Software Infrastructure
• Open Digital City platform• Shared servers – two-way APIs:– Digital City ID– Regional timeline of historical events– Jobs, Events, Business directory– Webcam and location pages
• For others to build on top of• Open Standards – Open Stack
Software as infrastructure• Dashboard is persistent, throughout the region• Dashboard adapts itself to the city it’s in• An ‘operating system’, that knows it’s context• Features and services available to all
Hardware, Bandwidth, Servers, Access
Applications and Services
Solutions, Compelling Experiences
A Day in the life of a Digital City
Webcams and Location pages• See top 16 webcams, editorially selected
– Rotate throughout the day
• Click on webcam, go to a location page• Location pages:
– Who lives by– Photos, videos– Other webcams– Leave comments,Reviews, Media, Links
• On shared servers
Regional Alliance
• Digital Bureaus are the nodes in a distributed architecture
• Build on the strength of many:– Lorain– Akron– Youngstown– Cleveland– Columbus
• 20 employees, 100 trainees per node• $75k per month
Sustainable Business Model
• 501c3 solicits funding from government and foundations
• Use the money 3:1 ways:– Build out the MM Content and Services– Train workers in the skills necessary to do that– Create and maintain Open Digital City platform
More than just Creative Jobs
• Wide of range of jobs interned and trained• Sales, Marketing• Ops, Live Events• Urban Farming• Health-Wellness• Media Records digitizing• Management
NEO is the Pilot
• Initial Alpha test in Youngstown• Use the Regional Alliance to set of nodes in:– Akron– Greater University Circle– Collinwood– Lakewood
• Also:– Lorain– Columbus
Ex-Auto Workers
• Another angle to focus on• Get them comfortable using computers, see
what happens• Different kind of Alliance – DOL– Kokomo, IN– Warren, OH– Flint, MI
Advisors/Supporters
• George Nemeth – social media maven• Jim Cossler – YBI portfolio company• Lev Gonick – CWRU• Ed Morrison – Purdue Center for Regional
Development• Mark Hill – Strategist/Biz dev• Miles Gilburne –VC/Angel investor• Kent Smith – Cuyahoga County Democratic club
Looking for
• Funding• Partners• Legal representation• Customers