the Digital City project
- a system for creating jobs
Our Mission:
Job creation
Community building
Education 
Open platform
Community Engagement platform
Open Dashboard infrastructure
Educational
methodology
Community 
programs
Multimedia
projects
Freelance - Traditional - Startup
JOBS
Bringing inter-disciplinary
culture into digital economies
Being developed in Cleveland, OH...
...designed to work in any city around the world.


Based on community engagement...
Create an on-line culture and ecosystem that everyone participates in

- on-line software
- community programs
- multimedia projects
Connecting the silos together
Government
economic development
efforts
Creative
Community
Digital
Infrastructure
the Elements of the Digital City project
Educational
Methodology
Feel comfortable with on-line technology
Intangible skills for freelance work
Put skills to use in projects
Everything on-line, no pieces of paper
- free training
- entrepreneurial activities
- tech support
Local Industry
and Commerce
Health, Education,
Energy, Safety


Community
Organizations
Digital Economy development efforts
Incubators
Coworking space
Software 
Infrastructure
Entrepreneurial 
activities
Connect the on-line world - to the real-world
Multimedia
Projects
Fuels economic development engine.
$1T of altruistic content needs to get created 
  over the next 25 years.
Socially conscious enterprises will pay for it.
Open
Dashboard
Real-time video help, training and community 
  channels in an integrated environment
Each city or region would have it's own network
Work seamlessly with Facebook and Google+
Aggregate content, people and services

Digital
Bureaus
Video help bureau
Tech support for community orgs
Biz directories
Multimedia productions
Live events
Training, workshops, speakers
A virtuous process puts volunteerism to work
New kinds of Jobs
- Freelance, independent, part-time
- Project based, virtual workgroups
- Feel comfortable using on-line technology
- Learn intangibles - be your own boss!
- Over 25% of ALL jobs are now freelance!
a Cyclical, Sustainable process
U.S. Army ROTC
NVidia
Bell Canada
Sacramento Kings
RadioOne
Mondadori
theTimesofIndia
SocialWorld
AOL
Cyworld
Alliance-Atlantis
EMI
Skygrid
Ruckus Networks
AlwaysOn
aSmallWorld
8 years building social systems
30 years building multimedia
What is a Digital City?
IBM = "SmartGrid"
Cisco = "Video tele-presence"
Microsoft = extend enterprise lockin
Amazon, Rackspace = infrastructure on-demand
Salesforce = customer dashboard
Facebook, Google + = social networking
Apple, Google = iOS, Android (mobile)
Internet of Things, Semantic web
Lafayette, LA
FiberCorps
Google,
Kansas City
Chattanooga, TN
fiber
Digital Cities are appearing worldwide
SongDo,
Korea
~20 years of large scale systems requiring broadband
Odaiba '93-'94
Trieste Digitale Citta '98
AOL protoypes '01
SuperBowl XXXII '97-'98
MediaBar
'96-'97
NOW.com '99
Friends '00
Ealing studios '02-'03
Reuters media portal '03
Efficient usage of Government money is our goal 
Our system creates Jobs at $21,000 a job.
How do you get citizens to use the on-line technology?
shown interest in local History
Talk about connecting to other citizens, family, friends
Show them that on-line skills can get them work
Join or create a new kind of media company
community content creation
Show them that on-line skills can get them work
Create projects to put these skills to use
Award internships to the best trainees
Drill down into the particular skill sets needed for specific professions [apprenticeship]
Work on professonal projects
Become a social media advocate, trainer and consultant
Virtual office worker
Volunteer tasks, community involvement
bring new found expertise into
traditional businesses
Become an independent contractor
Digital media expert
show the value how on-line technology can help the community
setup local community organizations with multimedia newsletter capabilities
Provide 24/7/365 tech support
Connect citizens to their favorite community organizations
show them a city service they can now do "from home"
show them what's going on in THEIR community
show them how their health can be better taken care of
Jobs bureaus filled with on-line workers
show them what's going on in their local schools
operate community web sites, run the MM newsletter
Join a startup
utilize on-line skills with all work
Shared timelines
Activity streams
Shared Calendars
Blogging
make your own TV show!
personal brands
build on what they know about TV, brands,  game consoles, PCs and mobile devices
bills
licenses
fines
biz info
taxes
city hall
Seniors Interviews
Computer History Museum
Spring 2011
learn from our past
Educate them in these new job skills
ISP - cable
electric-gas
water
Municipal services
show them how to save money on smart energy usage
Location pages
Business directory
Worldwide Intercultural Network
Howdy 
Mayor!
Investors
$$$
Startups and
local IT 
Community Engagement platform
Workshops
Street fairs
What's missing in current 
economic development efforts?
lots of defintions...
SOURCE: Ohio's Third Frontier Foundation
SOURCE: Ohio's Third Frontier Foundation