Lone Eagle Consulting Big Sky Telegraph – 1988-1998 Reach for the Sky – Online Teacher Mentoring and Lesson Plan Sharing

(Annenberg/CPB) USDA - Developed Online Rural Ecommerce, Wireless Mobile Laptop

Labs, Collected Success Stories USDOL Demonstration Project – Refining the Community Awareness

Raising Process Kellogg Foundation’s MIRA Project Presenter – Managing Information

in Rural America Industry Canada -Training Rural Network Directors International Telecommunications Union - Keynoting for an International

Indigenous Internet conference Americorps CTC VISTA Project -National Community Networking

Resource Coordinator Involved with founding the Indigenous ICT Commission of the Americas, Designing Local, Regional, and National ICT Adoption Strategies

In Times of Change, Learners Inherit the Earth

-Eric Fromm

Echoes in the Electronic Wind

Realizing Cultural Sovereignty Through Internet Innovations

Frank OdaszLone Eagle Consultinghttp://lone-eagles.com

The Internet is a Window to the World

Learn what is working for others like you Identify the very best Native Internet

Innovations from global sources Become a global citizen and establish YOUR

Native Voice, globally! Link into ongoing learning via Internet to

keep to the same instant of progress on emerging opportunities

Learn how Internet tools can build social, cultural, and economic

value

Three Historical Firsts

Search Engines - Instant Global Information - Unrestricted Self-directed Learning

Self-Publishing Web Pages - - Cheap Global Multimedia Self-Publishing - Free Global distribution for Education and Ecommerce

Efficient Global/Local Collaboration ---Email, Listservs and the Ten Collaborative Tools

New Wisdom

Ability to learn and teach quickly anywhere, anytime

One can give knowledge and still have it Adaptability and survival in a world of

accelerating change requires collaboration. New cultures of caring and connectivity

need to be created

E-Commerce and Rural Community Opportunities:

Making the Living You Want, Living Wherever You Want

Frank OdaszLone Eagle Consultinghttp://lone-eagles.com

Adapt or Die: Rural Issues

Rural Out-migration 5-7% EACH YEAR Unnecessary Relocation Scenario Youth Retention or Retirement Community? Outsourcing Jobs Overseas Via Telework

(Where are OUR Rural Teleworkers?) The New Gold Rush

Mining Raw Human Potential We’re not Aware of the Opportunities at our

Fingertips

The New “Innovation Economy”

Microenterprises (less than 12 employees) account for most new jobs

20 million home businesses growing by 20% per year

Montana has highest (22%) number of microenterprises

1 in 10 U.S. Jobs involves Telework Tapping Into the Global Explosion of

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Find What’s Working for Others Like You

Ebay - 200 million users, Over 1,000,000 Self-employed, 100 Billion Dollars per year, 33+ countries

Rural Entrepreneurship is Dependent on Internet Ecommerce and Telework

Ebay Drop Off Centers - 3000 and growing A market of one billion is on the Internet, 6

billion coming fast - What are the Implications?

The New Gold Rush

Leapfrogging with Free Web Tools Training: Best for the Most with the Least Motivating All Potential Innovators New ways of Measuring Motivation and

Success Establishing Peer-Mentoring Programs Validating a Structure for Youth Leadership Youth ARE the Future of Our Communities!

The “Montana Choice” Project 2003-2006

Sponsored by the Montana Job Training Partnership Giving Montanans the choice to retain their cherished

rural Lifestyle. Redefining Workforce Education Through Systemic

Change An Innovative Demonstration Project to Provide

Entry-level Web-based Self-employment Training Generating Ecommerce and Telework Success Stories A Local Train-the-Trainers Program Model

Community Learning is Everyone’s Responsibility

K12, Higher Education, Economic Development, State agencies, national agencies, elected community leaders, unofficial community leaders, parents, youth, disabled, faith-based, etc.

The Montana Choice Process

Begin with presentations to raise awareness that new knowledge bears new opportunities

Engage citizens in online learning and interaction on what’s already working for others like them

Identify local mentors interested in helping others learn and in developing for-profit mentoring services

Engage community leaders, K-12 administrators and educators in understanding key action strategies that do not require outside funding

Successive Ecommerce Support Systems

New Success Stories Ebay Drop Off and Training Center Virtual Incubator with Affiliate Programs Small Business Development Centers Co-marketing Services Timely Updates on What You Didn’t Know You

Needed To Know –Cause-related Viral Marketing Social Entrepreneurship Community Economies Transnational Activism and Global Economics

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What can we learn from the innovations of others?

Native American Internet Guide http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm

Ecommerce course http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm

Best Lone Eagle Resourceshttp://lone-eagles.com/future-proofing.htm

BEST sustainable Community Technology Center Model is an Ebay

Drop Off Center Ebay Drop Off “Ecommerce Fulfillment Center” Entry-Level Ecommerce Education/Support

Systems Co-marketing Peer Mentoring For-Profit Services

(Kinkos Community Cooperative) Ebusiness Incubator, Co-marketing All Local E-

businesses and the Community as a Whole.

A Beginner’s Guide to Profiting from the Internet

A First Online Course for Rural Learners Learn-to-Learn Online

Self-Directed Internet Learning Skills Electronic Portfolio of Skills

(Web-based Resume) Hands-on Exploration of What’s Working Receive an Ecommerce and Telework

Certificate

20 Years Innovating in Montana:Key Lessons Learned

Rural leaders, K12 educators and administrators often avoid technology presentations and learning opportunities

Youth are digitally ahead of their parents, teachers, and elected leaders

The need exists for everyone to see the best replicable innovations from other rural communities

Rural Communities Must Learn to Share Innovations and Network Together

A Grant Template:Sustainable Ecommerce Education Development Strategies (SEEDS)

Youth Present Collected Rural Innovations for Community Leaders

eBay Drop-Off Centers for Entry-Level Ecommerce Training

Creating People-Centered Knowledge Networks Measurable outcomes for community content,

knowledge management, inclusion, innovations, skills transfer and collaborative capacity

http://lone-eagles.com/seeds.htm

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The New Gold Rush

Leapfrogging Ahead with Free Web Tools Communications Technologies are getting cheaper,

faster, more mobile, more interconnected The Training We Need: Best for the Most with the

Least Motivating All Potential Innovators and Mentors New ways of Measuring Motivation and Success Validating a Structure for Youth Leadership Youth ARE the Future of Our Communities!

CAP Lessons Learned

Original intent was to stimulate rural ecommerce

Ten years, 500 million, 8800 CAP sites, under 4000 remaining

Average hourly wage in Canada dropping by $1/hour/year.

Mining Raw Human Potential as a National Economic Development and Social Strategy

Key Governmental Policy Challenges

Politics of control, advocacy, transparency Authenticity of Citizen/Community Buy-In and

Participation Real Benefits for Real People.

Motivating all potential innovators and entrepreneurs Efficiently gathering and sharing the best ecommerce

success stories, mentoring expertise, fast-track training resources with all citizens on an ongoing basis

The Need for Continual Reinvention and Innovation Sharing.

Human Nature Impediments

Will-Nots and Rural Innovation Diffusion Dynamics Provincial Acrimony –

Small Town Mindedness Tom Sawyerism – Indirect Motivation Competition VS Collaboration In

Rural Communities of Communities New knowledge that creates new opportunities Value NOT just volume Information->knowledge->Wisdom = VALUE Just-in-time-inquiry-based-mutual-support-systems

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Empowering Rural Entrepreneurs with Ecommerce Support Systems

Status Quo VS Systemic Change

Metrics are the Keys to Success

E-readiness Index Genuine Progress Index

Examples of Funding Incentives to Reward Results (and Measures of

Results) Number of Participants Number of mentors and new skills

transferred New Content Generated with Peer

Assessments on Value to the Community New Innovations and New

Income/Collaborative Capacity

CAP Center Steps Toward Sustainability

1. Create new community events to showcase new applications, services, and tools w emphasis on free and fun, social, learning.

2. Consider ebay drop off center model – Identify community ebay opportunities http://lone-eagles.com/summary.htm  http://lone-eagles.com/seeds.htm

3. Establish a local mentors program with social recognition program aimed at generating sustainable For-Profit local self-employment training and services businesses. Community cooperative service center like kinkos. http://lone-eagles.com/mentoring-mission.htm

4. Create a Marketable Skills Registry 

5.Create new training options for local CAP centers – gear up citizens with best dashboard/toolbox, skills that produce results, with emphasis on becoming global citizens and a global community that participates in sharing innovations with other rural communities.

CAP Center Steps Toward Sustainability

6. Engage youth to help all local businesses establish a basic website and demonstrate viability of a community co-Emarketing program…with storytelling to generate media attention. Showcase full range of youth's talents. 

7. Establish an ecommerce virtual incubator using peer mentors to generate for-profit peer training services to assure everyone can find the expertise they need.

8. Create a community knowledge network with a clear mission statement and social recognition for contributed content, avid supporters and give everyone a role that allows them to be socially recognized for their contributions.http://lone-eagles.knet.ca http://lone-eagles.com/indigenous_resources.htm

* (just-in-time-inquiry-based-mutual-support-systems )    

Funding Prerequisites for Rural Communities

A. Conduct a local web review of existing local business web sites and Internet entrepreneurs

B. Create a local web directory of all local business web sites and plan a co-marketing initiative to support all of them.Create a Wish List for desired rural web innovations

C. Establish a mentors roster as an asset-mapping activity, demonstrate peer-to-peer skills transfer.

D.  Create a Marketable Community Skills Registry

E. Engage leaders in defining goals for the first small steps, - as defined in the following grant template:   http://lone-eagles.com/summary.htm 

“Web-Raisings – Evolving Constructivist Models for

Community Engagement” 

Measurements Define Success

Level of Inclusion:Authenticity of Widespread Participation

Value of Content Created and Shared Value Bandwidth VS Volume Bandwidth Volume of Skills Transfer Info-structure VS Infrastructure; Fund 1:1 The Promise of Broadband VS politics of

control and monopolies

“Regional and National Strategies to Produce Measurable Results

– A Discussion”   

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An Executive Overview on BEST Rural Broadband Applications

Broadband Without a Plan?

Broadband as Self-Actualization Opportunities –The Big Picture

Idle Entertainment VS Meaningful Activity Self-directed Life-long Learning Making a difference in the lives of others – Extensibility –

Amplifying One’s Global Impact

Broadband represents the opportunity for remote individuals to make a significant difference in the lives of others, worldwide, on a scale unprecedented in human history.

Defining BEST Broadband Applications

Telemedicine –highest benefit with minimal skill development

Voice Over Internet Protocol VOIP – Greatest Citizen participation and benefits with minimal training

Community Internet Radio and TV (and on-demand Instructional Videos/Podcasts)

2-way Video with Peers and Mentors? Distance Learning and Application Sharing Ecommerce Support Services

Rise of the Creative Class VS Rise of Global Corporate

Dominance Supporting the Social Good: Social

Entrepreneurs Networked Individualism VS Collaborative

Communities If We All Share What We Know, We’ll All

Have Access to All Our Knowledge

NEW FORMULA

1:1 funding for Infrastructure and… Info-structure and training

Ideal Broadband Training “Skill Set” To Include

Advanced Email and Listserv Moderation Advanced Searching Skills Basic Web Self-publishing Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis, Bookmarking (Del.ic.io.us) Really Simple

Syndication (RSS,) Content Management Systems? Building Community Collaborative Capacity Distance learning tools for peer mentoring Cultural Sustainability and Multimedia Expression Ecommerce Entrepreneurship Transnational Activism http://lone-eagles.com/essential-skills.htm

Looking at the Past/Present– Community Technology Models

Community Technology Centershttp://www.ctcnet.orgProblems with sustainability and fast-track quality curriculum

Community Networkshttp://www.afcn.orgProblems with sustainability, training, and marketing the benefits.

Telecentershttp://telecentre.org November 2005(Europe’s telecenters are evolving into telework centers.)

International Community Networking Clearinghouse http://lone-eagles.com/community.html

Community Networking

Lessons Learned 1986-2005

Confusion - What’s a Community Network?

Growing Both the Economic and Social Value!

Four Models of Community Networking

1. Provide Community Internet Access

2. Community Internet Skills Training

3. Community Internet Content Publishing

4. Community Internet Interaction--- Collaborative Capacity

1. Provide Community Internet Access

Community Technology Centers (Schools and Libraries)

Public Offices with computers Kiosks Loaner Laptops Recycled Computers Computer Leasing Programs

2. Community Internet Skills Training

Step-by-step Online Mastery Learning Successive Milestones with Incentives and

Recognition Citizen-to-Citizen Mentorship Online Community Talent Database

3. Community Internet Content Publishing

Helping everyone get a web page! Showcasing local content and innovation Showcasing the best global content, locally (Coming) Personal Portals Using Free Web

Tools – Toolkits Citizen Journalism, E-democracy

4. Community Internet Interaction

Online Discussion and Idea Sharing Participatory Decision-Making Ten Collaborative Tools on the Internet Building Individual and Community Collaborative

Capacity Peer-to-Peer social networking, instructional

mentoring Social Engineering for Effective

Innovation Diffusion

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CN MODELS WEB TOUR

1. A Community Portal Web Page One-Way Information by One Person

2. Directory of Local Business and Organizational Web Sites

3. Mentor’s Roster, Training Opportunities, Skills Registry = Measurable Outcomes

4. Authentic Widespread Collaboration *Ongoing Sharing of New Knowledge