21st Century Communications

Working with communities to ensure all persons have access to the tools and technologies needed to create more connected and equitable communities that give individuals the capacity to live and work productively in an ever developing world; understanding access to broadband and other necessary technologies not as a commodity, but as a fundamental necessity of a democratic society.

Videos

Webinars

• Building Broadband Better with Community Empowerment Networks August 2021

• Engaging Michigan Community Alumni Networks as Catalysts for Development. July 2014

• Digital Literacy: Further Developing Michigan's Twenty-First Century Workforce. October 2013

• Online Postsecondary Learning for Workforce Development: Net Smart States and Students. November 2013

Podcasts

• Co-Learning Plan - John Monberg. 2019

• Co-Learning Plan - Mitchell Shapiro. 2019

Research

• City of St. Clair School Reuse Plan. 2021

• Kettunen Center. 2020

• Aligning Resources to Expand Broadband & Its Benefits in Rural Michigan. 2020

• Translating Smart City Leader Knowledge. 2019

• Integration of online market place and main street in Michigan communities: drivers, impacts and policy implications. 2019 

• Electric cooperatives and the digital divide: helping connect rural Americans to 21st cent. Opportunity. 2019

• Smart Cities and Infrastructure for Michigan. 2018

• Network and Digital Media Strategies for Community Development Efforts: A Case Study of The Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. 2018

• Exploring the use of virtual human resources to improve farm profitability. 2016

• Publicly operated telework facilities: an economic development opportunity for Michigan's rural and tourism oriented communities. 2015

• Engaging Michigan Community Alumni Networks as Catalysts for Development: Leveraging People, Platforms and Places for Michigan's Transformation. 2014

• Brightmoor Community Marketing Plan. 2014

• A Creative and Innovative Culture. 2013

• Digital literacy: further developing Michigan's twenty-first century workforce. 2013

• On-site tech training for small, rural Michigan businesses. 2012

• ArtSmart Among Innovator in Science, Technolog Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). 2011

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