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Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion Best Practices

Growing an Entrepreneurial Culture in Hawaii in 3-5 years

A Viable Plan for a Low-Cost Statewide Broadband Awareness and Engagement Program

by Frank Odasz, Frank@lone-eagles.com

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Hawaii’s educational “digital best practices” strategies to prepare students to be globally competitive in the 21st century ideally will include such topics as global awareness, civic literacy, health and wellness awareness, and financial, economic, business, and entrepreneurial literacy.  The emerging opportunity is a digital literacy and digital inclusion program showcasing E-learning-for-all “best practices” and essential online resources to help Hawaiians deal effectively with 21^st Century challenges.

Growing an entrepreneurial culture among Hawaiian youth with emphasis on stemming youth outmigration and creating more stable and sustainable local rural economies is becoming more feasible due to Hawaii’s growing rural broadband connectivity.  A youth E-entrepreneurship program is proposed to rapidly stimulate growth of sustainable local entrepreneurship, ecommerce and telework businesses and jobs.

The Hawaii Center for Sustainable Rural Families offers an elegant grassroots peer-mentoring platform that maintains an efficient clearinghouse of the best skills transfer instructional videos, screencasts, and friendly mentors, which allow Hawaiians to quickly gain the skills to deal effectively with their urgent dire needs and to engage meaningfully in the global information society and economy.

It is proposed that the above Hawaiian partnership will begin by inviting all Hawaiians, and particularly students, to identify best practices and resources for the six categories above to be peer evaluated and to begin populating this web site with their perceived best practices and best resources, By Hawaiians, For Hawaiians, using new social media efficiencies and building a collaborative community of communities. 

In essence, all Hawaiians can begin to become citizen video journalists using new web tools which allow anyone anytime to create a narrated video of what they show on their computer screen, which can be instantly posted online to inform others on what’s new and exciting regarding success stories focused on new Web tools and applications. 

Mirroring the trends toward renewed interest in local news is the need to identify local mentors who can help you either learn new skills yourself, or assist you in keeping up via services that compensate for whatever you are unable to learn to do for yourself.

The first step would be the proposed new online course  "21^st Century Workforce Basics for Hawaiians," described below, followed by establishing a uniquely Hawaiian virtual center of excellence. An Alaskan Native youth version was funded  2009 by the Alaska Dept. of Labor; http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm

The Hawaii Center for Sustainable Rural Families

1. JOBS: 21st Century Workforce Jobs Facilitation
2. ENERGY:   Green Clean Sustainable Lifestyles Education on Solutions
3. HEALTH: Community Wellness Broadband Applications
4. E-LEARNING FOR ALL: Hawaiian  Mentors: A Virtual Support Network
5. GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP:  Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
6. CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: Digital Storytelling and Culture Expression

     (An expanded outline is at http://lone-eagles.com/maui-center.htm )

A literature review with additional examples of the booming use of social media by governments at all levels is at http://lone-eagles.com/social-media-trends.htm

HCIL’s new Executive Director, Gordon Fuller, brings an exciting new vision and decades of unique expertise to HCIL.  Consulting on new HCIL E-learning and training workshops is Frank Odasz, president of Lone Eagle Consulting, who has a 25 year history with online learning innovations. All Lone Eagle E-learning resources are online with the latest innovations posted in the most recent Lone Eagle Update at http://lone-eagles.com/miba2009.htm