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Reinventing Community Computer Centers

as Proactive Institutions for Community Education

to Sustain Families, Communities, and Nations

by Frank Odasz, Frank@lone-eagles.com

 

Online at http://lone-eagles.com/centers2.htm

 

The Need: Despite 99% of Hawaiians having access to fast Internet, the high costs are such most vulnerable populations (disabled, aged, low-income, native) cannot afford computers, smartphones, empowerment training, or subscription costs. Their only option is whatever existing centers offer support, and there is a need for systemic change getting existing agencies trained and equipped to use modern tools to lower costs and enhance delivery of existing services. The potential benefits have never been greater for state and non-profit agencies and service businesses to lower all costs and improve services using the inclusive social media tools now available.

 

What’s Needed Most: Is an online clearinghouse and help desk that is kept current with free online resources and training and an invitation for all identified vulnerable populations to learn how they can best support their own information needs as well as those of others.  The HCIL Hawaiian  Community Education program will provide online and on-site training in return for individual commitments to help others in a mentoring capacity.  Solutions for service delivery agencies would also be continually updates with staff training offered on a fee-basis.

 

What’s the Very Best We Can All Do Together?
Our big social media inclusion innovation will be creating electronic portfolios for our trainees to document their effectiveness encouraging and mentoring others using those social media tools most appropriate to their skills and abilities. Continual innovation with new metrics documenting increased broadband adoption motivation, and smart applications related to peer mentoring and skills transfer will include metrics for self-esteem resulting from meaningful activities as part of a new form of mutual support learning community.

 

Native Hawaiian Values as Global Citizenship Values
Broadband Basics Training includes global citizenship core values which reflect the Native  Hawaiian values of stewardship of the Earth, and of prioritizing the needs of family and community through social enterprises demonstrating the Native Hawaiian spirit as a values-based model for the global community.

 

Citizen Video Journalists and Everyone a Teacher:
Our core mission is to gather and evaluate the best broadband application success stories for each vulnerable population and to share them via short “News Update” videos as a function of the Center for Sustainable Hawaiians. The technologies and “broadband training best practices” are evolving so quickly that our innovation must be a combination of Peer News and Peer skills transfer mentorship integrated with the following trends.

 

Egov Reform: The Obama Administration has tasked all federal agencies to leverage online tools to lower costs, increase citizen input, and provide transparency and innovation. The Alaskan Libraries community volunteers will evaluate and report via News Videos on the best, and worst, federal innovations with emphasis on the quality of support services and online content to include E-learning and social media inclusion. Local and State services will also be evaluated and posted.

 

DOC’s New Division of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

There are claims that broadband automatically produces new jobs as if any associated education or training is trivial and obvious. That this goes unchallenged is a great example of how naïve our current generation of leader really are.

                                                                  

Health Reform: Wellness education, home telecare for elders, and the full range of services, cradle to grave, will be evaluated with emphasis on what vulnerable populations can learn to do for themselves to lower costs and sustain their independent living.

 

Media Reform: Local citizen video journalists will learn to their own news, and report on the needs and the best success stories related particularly to how caring and connectivity, combined with common sense is producing real results for real people. With emphasis on fun, social, learning, we will link our news updates with E-learning essential skills videos and short online lessons.

 

Educational Reform: 21^st Century digital literacy is transforming how education is delivered and the very nature of educational priorities. The trend is away from brick and mortar institutions and toward life-long collaborative learning “Building our own knowledge.”

 

Rural Ecommerce, Telework, and eHomeServices Strategies
As community volunteers build their online video portfolios of successes, with video “thank-yous” from those they have successfully helped learn new skills and/or receive enhanced services, they will graduate into the Entrepreneurship program which will market their online training service business nationally and internationally.

 

Additional information is available on request.