(2009-07-07) Canter Ohio Digital Cities

Marc Canter is moving to Cleveland Oh to launch his DigitalCities meme. I'm focusing on innovating in the area of workforce development (Economic Development), we're going to use our People Aggregator platform and live Video Help to get people comfortable using computers and learning the job skills they'll need - in the future (Education)... Oh yah - we'll also help build out a software infrastructure that will enable a NEO wide alliance of cities, municipalities and neighborhoods to have their own Platform-s, dashboards, etc. - and mesh us all together. He'll be teaching a course at Case Western and trying to get grants.

Here's his presentation.

• I smell a Resilient Community aspect...

• There will be a Virtual Currency (DigiCash?) aspect.

• Pushing Municipal Wifi?

Semi-related, he has advice for the Plains Dealer (Newspaper Industry).

Update: left by 2012 or 2013. For five years I tried to do an economic development plan in Cleveland: it was partially education, partially marketing, and kind of the opposite of Groupon – hyper-local stuff. It was a citizen dashboard platform and an open source platform combined together. I took it to Jamaica, Tampa, Kansas City; Lafayette, Louisiana. Each place I went I progressed further and further, but I never got any funding for it.