- Presentation by Roberto Gallardo, Assistant Director/CED Specialist, Purdue Center for Regional Development, Purdue University
- Facilitated by Danna MacKenzie, Director, Minnesota Office of Broadband Development
The digital age is transforming the current socioeconomic landscape. Urban and rural communities alike need to transition to a digital mindset in order to adapt and prosper. But what is a digital mindset? This presentation will provide digital age related trends, discuss a community economic development model based on the Intelligent Community concept, and showcase small steps communities can take. The objective is to help rural communities transition to, plan for, and prosper in the digital age. In addition, the latest research on broadband impact’s and the digital divide for the state of Minnesota will be shared.
Roberto shared DDI profiles for all 87 Minnesota Counties:
- Aitkin County
- Anoka County
- Becker County
- Beltrami County
- Benton County
- Big Stone County
- Blue Earth County
- Brown County
- Carlton County
- Carver County
- Cass County
- Chippewa County
- Chisago County
- Clay County
- Clearwater County
- Cook County
- Cottonwood County
- Crow Wing County
- Dakota County
- Dodge County
- Douglas County
- Faribault County
- Fillmore County
- Freeborn County
- Goodhue County
- Grant County
- Hennepin County
- Houston County
- Hubbard County
- Isanti County
- Itasca County
- Jackson County
- Kanabec County
- Kandiyohi County
- Kittson County
- Koochiching County
- Lac qui Parle County
- Lake County
- Lake of the Woods County
- Le Sueur County
- Lincoln County
- Lyon County
- McLeod County
- Mahnomen County
- Marshall County
- Martin County
- Meeker County
- Mille Lacs County
- Morrison County
- Mower County
- Murray County
- Nicollet County
- Nobles County
- Norman County
- Olmsted County
- Otter Tail County
- Pennington County
- Pine County
- Pipestone County
- Polk County
- Pope County
- Ramsey County
- Red Lake County
- Redwood County
- Renville County
- Rice County
- Rock County
- Roseau County
- Saint Louis County
- Scott County
- Sherburne County
- Sibley County
- Stearns County
- Steele County
- Stevens County
- Swift County
- Todd County
- Traverse County
- Wabasha County
- Wadena County
- Waseca County
- Washington County
- Watonwan County
- Wilkin County
- Winona County
- Wright County
- Yellow Medicine County
Thanks to CTEP worker Brandon Phan for his notes:
- Increased awareness essential when quick assumptions are made at the table
- Technology being adapted around the world at a rapid rate
- Size of digital economy à $6.6 trillion by 2020 among G-20 countries
- Digital divide threat to economic development
- Hardware and software being develop extremely quickly
- “digital use must be refined in order for it to be useful”
- An app currently developed by FDA that can take a pictures of moles to see if it’s cancerous
- Nature of innovation evolving w/ technological advancements
- Most valuable companies from 2006 to 2016 have shifted towards tech giants
- Digital globalization ~15 years old
- Telehealth/telemedicine, jobs, crowdsourcing/crowdfunding
- Book to check out: The Fourth Transformation
- Digital age making possible blockchain, etc.
- What’s App, Instagram, Youtube sold for billions w/ less than 70 employees each
- Must agree on an issue to develop solutions
- Importance of access and adoption of broadband
- “doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is ridiculous” -Voltaire
- Why faster internet vs why electricity when we have candles
- By 2025, 1 billion digital natives will join the workforce
- Baby boomer grew w/ TC, current generation w/ screens
- Education, healthcare, jobs…reasons why people move from rural to urban communities
- Broadband could be a game changer
- “dream bigger than your circumstances”
- “speed will be the next digital divide”
- Europe now looking into internet utilization
Blandin on Broadband 